This post is sponsored by the National Peanut Board. I received compensation, but all opinions and content are my own. One of my favorite things about the holiday season is having parties where I can feed the masses. I love a good party, and most of the time I’m in the kitchen. This easy tofu...
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Marinated Halloumi Skewers with Summer Veg and Chipotle-Lime Peanut Sauce
This post is sponsored by the National Peanut Board. I received compensation, but all opinions and content are my own. Chances are, during the summer, I’m grilling halloumi skewers once a week. There’s nothing like putting fire to vegetables and cheese. I love the charred flavor and crisp cheese. In this recipe, I’ve paired the...
Zucchini Soba Bowl with Tahini Sauce
As I look back through the site recipe catalog, one thing is apparent: I've become a lazier cook over the years. Some of this is due to having a child but the other comes from keeping things simple to highlight a few flavors or ingredients. Home cooked meals don't have to be complicated (unless you...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bites
I've found that I've occasionally forget to share some of the recipes we eat most in our house. One of the things we eat a lot of but rarely makes it to the site: snacks. We're a huge snack family and the tradition seems to be continuing with our little guy. Sometimes our favorite dinner...
Spelt Cornmeal Pancakes with Strawberry-Lavender Chia Jam
Post sponsored by GE Appliances. See below for more details. Some time back, my son came to me and requested pancakes with strawberries (very sternly). He helped me measure the batter and watched as the pancakes bubbled on the stovetop. It's these moments that I feel I'll hold onto (and most likely recount to him...
Sweet Potato Wedges with Peanut Sauce
One of the challenges I love when cooking for others is to help change the narrative a bit around indulgent food. I eat decently 90% of the time but usually once a week, I kick back and eat something completely different. It's normally something fried and it's usually always delicious (my favorite is fried cauliflower...
Peanut Sauce | Cooking Component
This sauce is one of those "you could buy it from a bottle but don't. Just don't." recipes. Peanut sauce has roots in many difference cuisines but more often than not, I see it served with generic spring rolls at restaurants. This is a tweaked version I've been making for years and it's out of...
Wild Rice Veggie Sliders with Herbed Ricotta
I am a midwesterner through and through. I love my adopted home state of California but a piece of me will always be in Illinois. I still occasionally long for those slow summer days at my parent's house on a the lake or those mornings waking up to snow on the ground. I miss the...
Tahini Kale Caesar Salad with Whole-Grain Croutons
Of all the cookbooks I'm sharing this summer, Love Real Food is one of the books I am most excited about. I've known Kathryne (aka Cookie + Kate) for years- she was one of the first bloggers I connected with, primarily because our styles of cooking were similar. It's been exciting to watch her grow...
Spicy Peanut Sauce Noodle Bowl
I've found that eating a bit healthier doesn't need to involve a major overhaul to everything, all at once. In fact, it's much easier to make small changes overtime. I think this logic is great for eating more plant-based meals. Start small and start easy. This spicy peanut sauce noodle bowl is one of my...
Sesame Kabocha Squash Bowls with Tahini Sauce
Every new year starts with a buzz of produce excitement. I spend the cool fall months with cozy recipes that help to settle into a long winter. The new year is all about lighter recipes packed with flavor. I love winter squash because it plays in both spaces well and is easy to store throughout...
Roasted Sweet Potato and Cabbage Summer Rolls
Cooking is my creative outlet. I look for challenges in the kitchen, usually as a sort of Chopped episode. I have X ingredients on hand- what can I make? I've started doing something similar with my newsletter with help from subscribers submitting three ingredients they currently have in their kitchen. These cabbage summer rolls were...
Tahini Noodle Bowl with Collards
When I changed my diet to focus on plant-based meals and moved away from junk food, I found exploring new ingredients intimidating. Sure, I could easily toss together a salad, bake a sweet potato, or grill asparagus. But I avoided other ingredients for years. Jicama, kohlrabi, and collards didn't find their way into my diet...
Peanut Butter Buckeye Balls with Popped Quinoa
Roasted Broccoli Peanut Noodles
Peanut Butter Granola Bars with Dark Chocolate
If there's one thing that might be apparent, we have a slight addition to peanut butter and chocolate in our household. I'm more of a 3 parts chocolate to one part peanut butter ratio while M is the exact opposite: a lot of peanut butter with just enough chocolate to be noticed. During pregnancy, these...
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...
Grilled Sriracha-Tahini Sweet Potato Skewers with Halloumi
When M and I first moved in together, we were just about as young and naive as two people could be. We had only been dating for about 5 months and I had been working a job at a bakery that was 40 miles away from where I was living. I decided that if I...
Broccoli Salad with Tahini Dressing
It's always strange when I look back through the archives of the site and realize some key ingredients are lacking companion recipes. I've got sweet potatoes and tomatoes covered but upon closer inspection, broccoli is severely lacking. At first I was highly confused as I'm an avid broccoli eater but I soon realized the lack...
Grilled Halloumi Skewers with Cilantro-Tahini Sauce
(If you are looking for the response to watching Fed Up, I've moved it to it's own page. Having that text with with recipe felt a bit off but I wanted to still keep my reaction on the site.) I think the photos speak for this recipe but I'll tell you a little about it...