White Chocolate Pistachio Cookie Crisps – these gluten-free white chocolate cookies are thin and impossibly crunchy, studded with tiny caramel bits and lots of salty pistachios. They’re positively addictive (and conveniently egg-free). Hey guys – Quick housekeeping note! If you’ve been missing my emailed posts, they’re soon to be back and better than ever. Not yet signed up to receive The Pig & Quill emails? Subscribe here and receive fresh, seasonal recipe ideas — and more of those notorious salty scribblings — every week(ish)! Happy new year, friends! I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to post something new in … Read More
No-Bake Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls + How To Build a Simple Snack Board

No-Bake Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls – salty + sweet, crunchy + creamy chocolate peanut butter bon bons made with only 5 simple ingredients. This post has been sponsored by The Marketplace, by Safeway. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Visit MoreForU.com to explore the full selection of products. If there’s one thing that becomes particularly clear around the holidays, it’s how much I love to snack. The boards, the platters, the chips, dips and tiny sweets. I love the big, multi-course meals and the decadent desserts, but if I could only partake in one element of holiday noshing, it … Read More
The Reverse Affogato (aka the best coffee shop espresso at home)

Meet the Reverse Affogato — dark, rich espresso topped with luscious vanilla bean foam. The perfect coffee shop espresso at home. This holiday season has thrown us so many curveballs. First, we spent nearly two full weeks indoors due to the windblown smoke from Northern California’s wildfires. We baked and built forts and dance partied and worked our way through our entire collection of vinyl several times, but at some point, the novelty wears off. And then, a power outage struck the night before Thanksgiving with a pie in the oven, sherbet chilling in the freezer and a 13-lb brisket … Read More
10-Min Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup

Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup – a super simple, healthy cream of broccoli soup packed with fresh flavor, bright color and creamy, cozy vibes — and made entirely without dairy. I love soup. As a kid — and even early into adulthood — I was a sucker for canned soup. The bloated, squishy, noodles. The melt-in-your-mouth carrots. I adored them. And then one day, somewhere around my cooking-for-roommates college years, I heard Rachael Ray insist that, “If there’s one thing you don’t need to buy canned, it’s soup. It’s just too easy to make good soup from scratch.” And, much … Read More
Cranberry Sherbet Freezes (Dairy-Free)

Sweet-tart homemade cranberry sherbet topped with effervescent DASANI® Sparkling Lime for a seasonal take on a classic soda fountain sherbet freeze. This post has been sponsored by The Coca Cola Company. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I grew up down the street from an old-fashioned soda fountain. I spent countless afternoons there in middle school and high school, tucked away in the back booth with the same squad of girlfriends, giggling about boys and admiring each other’s iridescent manicures. For nearly every Friday of my freshman and sophomore year, I ordered the same thing: Cherry Amaretto, in a … Read More