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
(You’ll Never Guess They’re) Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Let’s talk about fears. Is it weird to kick things off that way? Here, I’ll add some bogus relevance. It’s almost Halloween: super spooky. Let’s talk about fears. Better? I’ll tell you what I’m afraid of. One thing, really, and I’m getting real vulnie putting this out there for all the internet to read/take advantage of. Ready? Creepy tiny repeating textures, mostly those occurring in nature and especially those occurring on flesh. We’re talking: beehives pores/spores/those things on the underside of ferns VOMMITTTTT aerial views of penguins en masse See also: geico guy made of money skittles chicken pox guy OMG NO … Read More
Coconut-Zucchini Sugar Cakies {vegan}
I will be the first to admit that I don’t like cakey cookies. A chewy cookie I can tolerate, and that’s something that’s only grown on me in the past 10 years or so. (College really forces you to get un-picky about the types of cookies that show up in your care packages. I mean, my mom was all over the crisp, crunchy cookie thing, but some of my dorm-mates mom’s weren’t as savvy. We made do.) But every now and then you stumble on something that changes your point of view completely. Maybe it’s a YA novel that brings … Read More
Drunken Plums with Mustard-Caramel Sauce & Rosemary Shortbread (over ice cream!)
Believe it or not, I’m actually going to get right into the recipe today. Pretty incredible, right? No obnoxious detour into what we did this weekend (It was four freaking days long! What didn’t we do!) or how many YA novels I’ve made it through in the past two weeks (Five, you guys! I think that’s a record!) or how my awesome mom and godmom stopped by to gift me and Chris with a funky new cookbook and about 11 lbs of barbecued beef ribs (I have nothing to add! The awesomeness if pretty obvious!). Instead, I’ll just tell you how … Read More