Homemade is mindlessly easy, tastes infinitely better, is made-to-order, and oh yeah, it’s a fraction of the cost. My favorite kind of granola is the kind with big clusters and lots of textures and flavors. I covet those choice clusters, just ripe for picking. Granola that’s sandy, dry, and loose with oats that don’t stick together is not my idea of granola. That’s toasted oatmeal. What a buzzkill. This granola is all about the big chunky clusters and I have a few secrets for creating them....

comment icon 16 more comments But I do not love having to think about a dressing. I’m lazy. It’s not hard but it feels like a barrier? I don’t know. So here’s how I’m doing Italian salads right now – and by doing, I mean, like, making every couple of days to sit outside and eat in the sun for some lunchy moments of bliss. It’s giving Olive Garden bottomless salad, but, like, more grown-up, more fun, and all-around incredible....

Easy Black Pepper Chicken Stir Fry Recipe If you’ve never tried black pepper chicken at your local Chinese restaurant, you’ve been missing out. But now, you can recreate it at home using my easy better-than-takeout black pepper chicken recipe! The chicken is tender, juicy, and is cooked in your skillet before removing it and working on the onions and bell peppers. This ensures the chicken sears and cooks properly, without being overcooked, and that the bell peppers are crisp-tender....

What that really means is that we sit at coffee shops and talk about nutrition plugins, analyze pictures of melty cheese and determine which one makes my nails look better, and eventually get in a tiff about whether or not that recipe really needed the orange honey glaze and then throw food at each other. KIDDING that’s not really what it’s like. Let me set the record straight for ya....

Spicy-puckery buffalo chicken, grilled to juicy perfection. Served over fluffy rice speckled with roasted cauliflower bits and herbs. Topped with a freshy-fresh little cucumber and tomato situation. Dolloped with a spoonful of creamy dill dip. And hungry you, at lunchtime, with this exciting little container of flavor fireworks awaiting you. I mean, come on! It’s juicy, spicy, and cool and crunchy and almost comforting all at the same time. And the fact that this is an all-around feel-good with big flavor and a yummy mix of protein and fiber and carbs… This is the energy we are bringing into the month of September....

Looking for more healthy salad recipes? Try Orzo Salad, Thai Quinoa Salad, or Lentil Salad! Why I love this recipe: Meal Prep – I love to make a big batch of this bulgur wheat salad to eat for lunch during the week, and it’s such an easy and refreshing thing to pack for lunch at the pool or park during the busy summer. Healthy – It’s packed with protein, fiber, and crisp vegetables to keep me full and energized....

Looking for more appetizer recipes? Try these Cheesy Breadsticks, Cowboy Caviar, or Garlic Knots! Why I love this recipe: Easy – No cooking involved or any dirty dishes! It only takes minutes to put together!Crowd Pleaser – This is a fun appetizer full of fresh ingredients, bright colors, and the burrata is the star of the show. Everyone is excited to dig in!Delicious – The burrata is perfectly balanced with the balsamic reduction, pear, prosciutto, toast and jam, dates, and nuts....

I took time to inhale ingest some plants. With homemade Vegan Slaw Dressing And Sweet & Sour Honey Lemon Tofu I went to town on my sale fruit finds. I am practical that way. I love it when grapes are super crunchy. These were perfect. And with the sale bananas, I made some “baked” pumpkin pie spice bananas From my trip to the mall yesterday, I neglected to mention that I also stocked up on bodysprays!...

From Yesterday…. Thanks for the compliments on Skylar’s room makeoverand how it’s coming along! It was also nice to read about whether or not you “Forget” to mention you used certain ingredients in a recipe like spinach, kale, or whatever food certain friends or family members may object to. None of us believe in being sneaky, but sometimes, it does help to mention what was in the recipe after the meal was happily devoured by everyone....

If you’re not familiar with Teeccino, it’s caffeine-free herbal coffee. “It’s a blend of herbs, grains, fruits and nuts that are roasted and ground to brew and taste just like coffee.” source Now, I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it tastes just like coffee, but it’s definitely more coffee-like than tea-like, which for me, was a bonus. I only tried one cup, of one flavor, the French Roast....

This recipe is a fan favorite for spring and was originally published in 2021. It is also part of this year’s Spring Bucket List! Find out more about the bucket list here. comment icon 677 more comments I know it might be confusing – carrot cake, which is like vegetables meets cake, but also still cake, combined with coffee cake, which is also cake but the kind you can eat for breakfast and it will still be totally appropriate and, obviously, cakey?...

If you love dessert recipes, you have to try Flourless Chocolate Cake, Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp, or Cannoli Cake! How to Make Cherry Clafoutis: Arrange Cherries: Butter the bottom of a 9 or 10 inch baking dish and arrange cherries evenly at the bottom. It’s very easy to make, with basic pantry ingredients and fresh or canned cherries. You could also swap the cherries for plums, prunes, apples, pears, cranberries, or blackberries....

Anyway onto a little weekend eats roundup…. First, some overnight Chia Seed-Coconut-Mango Soaked Oats 1/3 c dry oatmeal + 2/3 c lowfat vanilla almond milk + 1/4 c coconut flakes + 1 Tbsp Chias + vanilla stevia + dried mango slivers The next morning? Creamy, coconutty, mango-ey, chia-ey action Also I’ve still been groovin’ on Raw Vegan Brekkie Cookies that I tweak up, inspired by Gina’s recipe. I use: 1 smooshed banana, 1/3 c oats, 1 Scoop Sun Warrior Brown Rice Protein Powder (BRPP), Stevia, cinnamon, and a drizzle of agave for moisture....

No-Bake Candy Bar Cake Recipe After my last icebox cake, I’m hooked for a few reasons. They’re ridiculously easy, there’s no cooking involved and no need to turn on a hot oven in the middle of summer, and my family raves about them. Sold. My last version was a twist on Boston Cream Pie and it was time to break out the serious chocolate mojo for this chocolate icebox cake....

Easy Strawberry Muffin Recipe I wanted to make a scratch strawberry cake. But when I realized what needed to be done to accomplish that, strawberry muffins sounded real good. There are so many recipes for strawberry cakes and cookies, but most of them involve cake mix. Nothing wrong with Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies or cake mix in general, but I wanted to make a scratch cake. However, scratch strawberry cakes involve making a homemade strawberry jam of sorts, which is added to the batter, but because of the volume of flour and dry ingredients needed to compensate for all that liquidy jam, the cakes tend to turn out very pale pink and lackluster....

On Main street in my hometown (shout-out to the beautiful Park City, Utah!) there’s a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory where I indulged on many treats growing up, including one my personal favorites, chocolate covered marshmallows. May sound a little boring but they are the tastiest little treat! They are no-bake and only take a few minutes to make. How to Make Chocolate Covered Marshmallows: Possible Recipe Variations: Like a s’more: sandwiched the chocolate covered marshmallows between honey graham crackers....

Homemade White Cake Recipe For anyone wanting to learn how to make a classic white two-layer cake, this post will teach you how to do so easily and do so very successfully! It’s a long post, with lots of photos, tips, tricks, and insider info, but if you’d like to bypass my commentary and get to the recipe, just keep on scrolling down until you see the recipe card itself....

comment icon 85 more comments (Which, honestly, is kind of what I’ve been doing lately. A little here for lunch, a little there for dinner, a little the next day with some added paneer because I love myself…) It’s important to know that this recipe has so much flavor, but it’s also not LOUD flavor. It’s like rich, cozy, mellow, could-keep-eating-forever flavor. The base of this veggie korma is a boatload of comforting vegetables like fork-tender potatoes, bell peppers, and green beans, but the thing that makes it feel like a hug is that creamy golden sauce....

Easy Crème Brûlée Cheesecake Bars with a Sugar Cookie Crust One of my favorite desserts is Crème Brûlée, and these easy bars taste like crème brûlée met a cheesecake on the way to the oven. There is a sugar cookie crust that is thick, chewy, and it’s a great contrast to the velvety smooth crème brûlée-cheesecake filling. The toffee bits on top melt slightly and create that signature sheen that you typically see on crème brûlée....

I love iced coffee so much that I can’t even order it from a coffee shop unless I wanted to go broke. I can slam a $4 drink in 14 seconds. It’s better for my wallet that I make my own iced coffee at home. Plus, at home I can add booze. I’ve never understood the mystique behind iced coffee and why people are so impressed, yet intimated by it....