My school of thought when it comes to sweets is that if I am making a treat, I shouldn’t really worry about making it ‘healthy’. This custard pie might seem like it goes against that thought. However, the two swaps I’ve made to the original recipe are less about health and more about flavor. The…
Desserts
Peanut Butter Buckeye Balls with Popped Quinoa
Disclosure: This recipe was created for Ancient Harvest. See below for more details. The majority of time, if I’m going to make holiday cookies, I’ll make them with all the butter and sweetener. To me, the occasional cookie during the holidays doesn’t warrant a special “healthy” cookie. It’s a treat and meant to be a something…
Pear Crisp
Ricotta Cake with Mixed Berries
A rather short post as we head into the holiday weekend. I ended up staying Illinois for a week longer than I intended, but we’re on our way back to California today. Mack has been such a trooper through the whole process and I’ve taken away one thing: this little boy loves to be out…
Milk Chocolate Yogurt Pots with Peanut Butter from Yogurt Culture
One of the things I love most about cookbooks is the near instant gratification I get after cracking open the book. There’s no reading the first chapter or reading the end of the book before reading the middle (I was guilty of this as a child). One quick look of the recipes can usually tell…
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies with Chocolate Chips
When I first started this site in 2007, it was devoted to baking. I had fallen in love with everything baked which eventually led me to a job in a bakery. I had every intention of opening my own bakery. I joined Tuesday’s with Dorie somewhere in 2008/2009 (a blog group that baked their way…
Einkorn Crepes with Fresh Berries
One of the things I’m most notorious for is at 8pm at night, I decide I want dessert. I’ve given it no prior thought or concern up until that moment which usually is cause for, ‘we have nothing sweet!’ I scrounge around the kitchen and usually end up with something (or I dish myself a…
Blackberry Sorbet
As much as I love homemade ice cream, 9 times out of 10, I don’t have the patience to follow the recipe to the end. There always feels like more ingredients than I need (I think it’s the eggs for the custard base) and I always wait until I want ice cream to actually make ice…
Pistachio Olive Oil Cake
With the local food movement continuing forward, I think it’s sometimes easy to forget about the items you can’t necessarily pick-up from the local market (unless you live in certain areas.) This could be anything from avocados to coffee to olive oil. I use olive oil everyday and that’s no exaggeration. It’s used for cooking,…
Barley Chocolate Chip Cookies
It would seem, as of recent, that there are things happening in my life that make me stop and say, “Ah, this is what it feels like to be an adult.” It’s usually silly things like not being able to eat those two bowls of ice cream (I try, so hard) or the realization that…
Gluten-Free Hazelnut Brownies
I figured it was high time I shared an actual recipe from the book. Many of my favorite bloggers have been sharing (and will be continuing to share) recipes from the book, so be sure to check those out- I’m updating the cookbook page with links to all these! In the meantime, I made you…
Chocolate Beet Cupcakes with Chocolate Mascarpone Frosting
I felt like there should be celebratory cupcakes as the first recipe of “The Homemade Flour Cookbook” month (especially since Amazon named the book as one of their cookbooks of the month!) These cupcakes are nearly too much- so rich and delicious. I love the moisture the cooked beets add to the cake and I…
Rye Crepes with Sorghum-Bourbon Strawberries + Ice Cream
M and I have been complete work-a-holics as of late. My excess working is primarily due to a cookbook manuscript that is nearing the deadline while M’s is normal nerding and game planning. However, I made a decree that for a small amount of time on Saturday, we were going strawberry picking: a slight pause…
Honey Custard with Roasted Strawberries
With all the chaos and businesses that is happening right now, I’m packing and heading back to Illinois today. My uncle turned 70 yesterday and my grandmother planned a large family dinner, one of the first I’d be missing since I moved. While I love California, one of the hardest things still has been being…