Dessert

Pumpkin olive oil snacking bread

Pumpkin olive oil snacking bread

Every year at Thanksgiving, I buy way too much canned pumpkin. I don’t even really like pumpkin stuff that much – I’m no raging pumpkin spice fan. But I make a Thanksgiving pumpkin pie every year and I never look up how much pumpkin you […]

Chocolate toffee cheesecake: a birthday dream

Chocolate toffee cheesecake: a birthday dream

My oldest turned ten the other day, which is quite a milestone, not least because she made focaccia herself for her special birthday dinner. Luckily, she still wanted me to make her cake. This chocolate toffee cheesecake – a regular cheesecake topped with chocolate ganache […]

Because everyone should have a cookie recipe in their back pocket: Vacation cookies

Because everyone should have a cookie recipe in their back pocket: Vacation cookies

Seattle lost its’ collective mind over the last month or so. It snowed, and we lost two full weeks of normalcy. It didn’t snow a lot – probably less than a foot total over the two weeks – and I KNOW, I grew up in […]

Our favorite pink (sometimes green) smoothies

Our favorite pink (sometimes green) smoothies

When I got my Vitamix a few years ago, I was all about the smoothie. Smoothies for breakfast. Smoothies for after running. Smoothies for a quick lunch. Smoothies to impart key nutrition to kiddos. Smoothies to sustain me. I was in fact kind of an […]

World’s easiest, tastiest, healthiest dessert: peanut butter date “cups”

World’s easiest, tastiest, healthiest dessert: peanut butter date “cups”

Look. Listen. Look and listen. For me, lunch and dinner aren’t over until I’ve had something sweet. I know. It’s conditioned, obviously, and I’ve made it through periods of my life when I am determined to break the habit. I can do it. It works. […]