I'll be poolside with these fruit-loaded, chocolate-drizzled coconut cups tomorrow, celebrating American independence on the 4th of July. 🇺🇸 I wanted something that requires minimal time and effort to pull together yet is color-coordinated with the holiday. Enter these Red, White, and Blue Coconut Celebration Cups. Chocolate and Coconut is such a delightful combina[...]
I'm posting these Vanilla Protein Blackberry Crumble Bars in honor of the rebrand over at Equip Foods, my favorite protein brand. These are made with Equip's vanilla Prime Protein, which I love because it has only four ingredients: beef isolate, coconut milk powder, vanilla, and stevia. No gluten, dairy, whey, soy, hormones, antibiotics, fillers, artificial sweeteners, or preservatives. Ma[...]
Yes, I know "simple" is so over-used by recipes where one of the ingredients is puff pastry, or Nutella, or boxed cake mix. But this is the real deal, old-fashioned simple. If you don't opt for the toppings, these are the simplest, easiest, no-brainiest bars ever to be. There are literally 3 ingredients, no baking. Only measuring. Measuring just three ingredients. Of course, I co[...]
Can you tell I am so ready for spring? These simple springtime-inspired honey lemon cookies helped ease the craving for warm weather, buds opening in the gardens and on trees, and baby animals frolicking (I'm nostalgic for the chicks and foals every year on my parents' ranch back in Texas during my childhood). I also used this cookie recipe as an excuse to dig into honey contamination, adulte[...]
These 2 Ingredient Banana Nut Cookies are low-key genius. Combine nuts and banana, bake. When I first developed my 2 Ingredient Banana Coconut Cookies, I was amazed that something so simple as bananas and coconut could possibly combine to create anything that even remotely resembled a cookie. The same amazement applies to these 2 Ingredient Banana Nut Cookies (the basic version without add-in[...]
I'm back! I took an unintentional month-long hiatus from blogging, because sometimes life gets unexpectedly busy, but I'm delighted to be back in time to present my first pumpkin recipe of the year. This is my small tribute to the famous, ubiquitous Pumpkin Spice Latte... in dairy free, fruit-sweetened creme cup form. The pumpkin creme that is piped on top is incredibly versatile an[...]
We need to talk about pea milk. Because a new non-dairy milk substitute made from yellow peas hit the grocery store shelves 15 days ago and while I didn't sit down this morning with the intention of writing a pea milk review before day's end, the product piqued my interest so much when it crossed my radar that I researched it and taste-tested it myself as soon as possible. Alth[...]
Fresh Raspberry French Silk Pie? When I heard the name for this recipe, I couldn't imagine a more decadent and luxurious one, and the recipe has turned out to live up to it in spades. (In spades: being the language nerd that I am, I couldn't help stopping to research the derivation of this phrase while writing this post. Turns out it has nothing to do with the gardening implement, and everything t[...]
Here they are: BROWN BUTTER chocolate pecan bars (or BBCPB, according to my affectionate abbreviation for them). Brown butter and I are having quite the moment... I can't get enough of creamy pastured butter from happy, healthy cows toasted to nutty perfection and finished with a dash of nutmeg to pull the flavor deeper into rich caramel. This depth of flavor is tempered but th[...]
I created this Quick Apple Pie recipe in honor of Pi Day. This year's Pi Day was an extra-special occurrence... a once in a lifetime one, actually. March 14 (or 3/14) celebrates the mathematical constant of pi. Pi represents the ratio of circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. While it is often abbreviated as 3.14, pi has an infinite number of digits beyond the decimal poin[...]
I consider myself "team pie" when I think about it. . . but I never seem to bake pies. :-P Is there a single pie on this site? I don't think so. Cake, though. I've made some cakes: Pineapple Dreams Coconut Cake, Easy Chocolate Strawberry Cake, Chocolate Gingerbread Cake, Vegan Heartache Cake and even a Meat Cake! But this cake is very different from all the rest, because it ha[...]
Attention friends and pumpkin enthusiasts: few times have I been more excited to share a recipe with you than I am today. If you're looking to make a flock of festive little treats that tip their caps to the season while pleasing touchy tummies, these babies are for you. These wee beauties begin with a real food crust that's just fruit, nuts, coconut oil and some spice to liven it[...]
Lisa Curtis, the founder of Kuli Kuli Foods, experienced the malnutrition that plagues rural communities in West Africa first-hand. After a few months of volunteering in Niger with limited access to fruits and vegetables, Lisa found herself experiencing early signs of malnutrition—a condition that affects over 18 million children across West Africa. Then she began to incorporate m[...]
I'll bake you a cake, yes. But you should know that it will likely be a recipe I invented the same day, and its debut for you will be its raison d'être. That's certainly the case with this Pineapple Dreams Coconut Cake. I invented it for a birthday, and named it the way I did because it totally the stuff of dreams if you're a tropical pineapple lover. Nibbling the last littl[...]
I know. I know! But trust me when I say that this is a cake that you can throw together on short notice. A cake that goes with coffee, and friends coming over, children and dogs underfoot. It might be breakfast. It is fruit-sweetened, nut-free, grain-free, and dairy-free, sure. It’s not the healthiest thing you can make, it’s a cake. But a cake that unders[...]
Sometimes I take recipe requests. ;) When a friend of mine asked me to create a grain-free version of some key lime white chocolate cookies, I couldn't resist! But I decided to go in a very different direction to make them mini "cheesecakes" of puréed cashews. They're a no-bake treat in addition to being dead simple and grain-free, because who wants to turn the oven on i[...]
No-bake cookie dough. In a jar. If that doesn't spell lazy decadence, I don't know what does. This no-bake cookie dough is perfect for those moments when you are desperately craving something sweet and chocolate-y, but don’t have the time (or patience) to make a full-blown batch of cookies. Not only is it the easiest of solutions to satisfy your sweet tooth, but this combination[...]
Avocados are just one of my favorite food on the planet, no big deal. It's always the right time to eat avocados, they can hold my interest meal after meal. Equally delicious as guacamole loaded onto plantain chips, sprinkled over baked eggs for breakfast or eaten plain with a spoon as a pre-workout snack, the possibilities are endless! I love discovering new avocado reci[...]
Hello, friend. I must confess: I don't believe in OMG ANTIOXIDANT SUPERFOODS too much. I believe that some foods are more full than others of the things that make us healthy and happy, yes. These foods come "packaged" in skin and shells and scales, they have roots and rinds, ripeness and rottenness. But! Sometimes it's such fun to play with the buzzwords, to write a recipe cra[...]
I was introduced to melktert (which means "milk tart" in Afrikaans) on Jamie Oliver's Instagram. He described the melktert as "naughty" which made me smile and made the idea stick in my head (the photo of his totally gorgeous rendition probably helped with this). That cracked caramel brûlée top! Swoon. ANYWAY. I got to thinking whether a paleo melktert might be possible. The tradition[...]
Healthy eating on Valentine's Day can be tricky, let alone maintaining a paleo Valentine's Day! Luckily real food is very romantic. Sure, you can eat something drowned in cream or a trussed-up confection of gluten and sugar but why not rely on the clean recipes to show you how to get it done in the kitchen on Valentine's Day without derailing your wellness goals? Love your body... tha[...]
My mother is really a paleo original. She raised my brother and me on a diet remarkably similar to the paleo nutritional template, long before "paleo" entered the national vocabulary. But more than adhering to any particular dietary dogma (she experiments with new foods and cooking methods, plus attempts reintroduction regularly) my mother insists on the highest standard of food quality.[...]
The star of this Fruity Breakfast Pizza with Granola Crust is Paleo Scavenger granola! I "met" Brittany of Paleo Scavenger on Instagram and my interested was piqued: I've made my own Paleo granola and while the results are utterly delicious, there's nothing like the convenience of spooning it from bag to bowl and enjoying in minutes! I reached out to the Paleo Scavenger co-founders Bri[...]
These Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies have a lot going on. They're vegan, gluten free, "paleo" (as much as a cookie can be) and delicious in a nutty, crispy way. If you like your cookies gooey, these Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies aren't for you, because firm and crunchy is what's going on here. I flipped through the very first edition of Cherry Bombe magazine this past weekend. If y[...]
Late night cookie cravings: I have them. Thank you Goji Cookies for your perfect timing as a #cleancheat solution last night! I almost didn't post them because they're yet another in my series of coconut cookies. I may have a slight obsession; most recently I posted Only Coconut Cookies, 2-Ingredient Banana Coconut Cookies and if you go farther back in the archives I have Grain-Free Car[...]