For you to make food or buy food or send food or deliver food to people who could use a little extra love in their lives right now? Just because of this series? As a way to show support for us, our son Afton, and the people in your lives? It is all way too cool and I love that this is my job. I get to talk about food and love and life and it’s just awesome....

I plan to milk the gorgeous weather – my favorite weather of the year – as long as the sunny, 78F days with no humidity and crystal clear blue skies want to stick around. I wanted to reflect on 30 of my favorite recipes I made this summer, spanning mid-May until now. Some are seasonal, some aren’t, but all are worth being made. I truly love each of them. They’re all easy, straightforward, and nothing complicated....

comment icon 760 more comments This Lemon Chicken Soup becomes your new Chicken Noodle. Here’s why: The base is smooth, creamy, and velvety… without cream. But even though it’s creamy, it’s also still brothy enough to slurp, like any good Chicken Noodle-y type soup should be. It’s salty and rich from the chicken, but that punch of lemon is life-giving in a way that regular Chicken Noodle just can’t touch....

comment icon 48 more comments All the textures! Flavors! Colors! It’s waking my mouth up in the best possible way. Chopped Greek Salad situation: we’ve got quinoa, beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, greens if you want them, herbs by the bucket full, red onion, kalamata olives, and radishes if you’re feeling fancy. Toss that all up extra-generously with olive oil and lemon juice and salt and pepper (don’t be shy – a salty Greek salad is a good Greek salad), and you are ready to rock and roll your way to the most tangy, bright, can’t-get-enough, fresh n’ clean eating....

Thanks, Sequel Naturals for the bar. It was a nice piece of dark chocolate. I didn’t really taste any maca per se. But I did have some extra energy and pep in my step after I ate it. Not sure if that was just from the chocolate or from the maca + chocolate, but either way, I enjoyed my little energy burst. I’m a fan of Sequel and Brendan Brazier....

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She can apparently consume raw cookie dough by the batch. I love this woman already. She creates crazy, decadent, mind-blowing recipes that include ingredients ranging the gamut from clear imitation vanilla extract rather than expensive vanilla because it has a “taste people associate with home” to ingredients you probably don’t have laying around your home, like glucose, freeze dried corn to grind into corn flour, citric acid, and feuilletine....

I really wanted to do it, worked my butt off to put in document-able hours, studied more, read more, practiced more, taught more, and I even did a Raw & Vegan Foods Cooking Demonstration for members of my teacher training class. It was my service to the others in my program to help show them how easy it is to make simple, easy, delicious raw vegan foods and incorporate these choices into their lives....

Contestants will compete to create the next dish to appear on the menu of well-known restaurants. With high anxiety and stiff competition, competitors will duke it out with the guidance of Emeril Lagasse as their seasoned industry insider and Ty Pennington as their confidant and sounding board. Competitors go beyond their home cooking passion and are challenged to create dishes that are not only delicious, but fit the selected restaurants current menu offerings....

This is a fast, easy, one-bowl, no mixer pumpkin cake recipe that everyone loves. When you’re sitting around the house craving a piece of Starbucks pumpkin bread, you need to make this cake instead. It has a ton more flavor and it’s so easy. It’s a spinoff of this Pumpkin Spice Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting. Which is a spinoff from a pumpkin cake recipe in my second cookbook, Cooking With Pumpkin....

Trader Joe’s is TOS (temporarily out of stock) on Speculoos Cookie Butter Spread in my area. I first discovered this calamity last week on my first grocery shopping trip home after being in Aruba for a month. Local San Diego store employees told me at that time that this is not a seasonal item and that it’s something they do plan to carry but that they were simply out. Thy thought they would be getting some, “soon”....

I’m not the world’s biggest football fan. But I am a big fan of going to the mall during the game. And I’m nice enough to leave my husband with plenty of food to tide him over in my absence. I made him a Snackadium and boy, did his eyes light up when he saw it. Nothing says love like a Snackadium. Let’s rephrase that, nothing eases the pain of credit card statements from those mall trips better than some cheesy, carby goodness in the shape of a football field....

comment icon 216 more comments Let’s tuck right into this comforting, super-satisfying bowl of yum. Immediately. Get your fork. Hurry, hurry. Watch How To Make This Recipe I mean, sticky-sweet pork with that caramelized pan-fry goodness, the juicy chunks of pineapple, a handful of fresh herbs, slices of jalapeño, and crispy onions (yes, crispy onions! so underrated!) is all getting served over a hot pile of super luscious coconut rice (remember this rice from that delicious Ginger Peanut Chicken?...

big smile, aggressively waving Hiii! I’m so excited to be here with a COFFEE DATE after a long (too long) hiatus, and I have about a million and one things I want to tell you about. And I’m back on caffeine so, yeah, that adds up! I’m titling this a Post-Holiday Coffee Date because I feel like I’m still sort of recovering from the holidays (lol) and sometimes the easiest way back in is to start with what’s easy and fun....

I wish I could say I wasn’t this shallow, but the prospect of eating about 50 of these little guys is single-handedly what got me out of bed this morning. That, and the fact that I would get to tell you about them. Pumpkin Bites with Maple Glaze. Definition: tiny two-bite nuggets of pumpkin, oats, and maple syrup baked into a cross between a pumpkin cookie (which, for the record, I have never liked, so if you are hesitant – be encouraged) and a pumpkin scone (which, for the record, I LOVE) and a pumpkin muffin (obsessed)....

Every year around this time the world seems to go crazy for Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes The Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes are lovely… But you can make them at home And I’d like to think my make-at-home version wins Why? Because you can make them vegan at home, if you so choose. And the ones you purchase are generally made with fake, sugary, pumpkin-flavored syrups, not real pumpkin puree. It should be noted that this is a natural latte, made with real pumpkin puree and real pumpkin pie spice....

THIS IS SOPHIE! But first, can I just say it’s been a long time! Like, wowza. I feel a little rusty sitting here typing this out. After, what, ten days? of much needed R-E-S-T (more on that later), I am back today because I had to introduce you to sweet little Sophie girl! The Sophie Facts: She is a Keeshond puppy. She was a Christmas surprise that we got for Bjork’s parents....

comment icon 317 more comments I actually sort of get annoyed by the fact that Meatless Monday is a thing, but hooray! We’re there. We’re doing this. This round of meatlessness features the most beautiful, yummy, vegetarian comfort food in all the land: QUESDILLAS! I’m talking about crispy golden brown tortillas wrapped around melted Pepperjack cheese and a spicy lentil and brown rice filling to make my new food love: Quick and Easy Lentil Quesadillas....

Remember Saturday morning when I tried to go to a yoga studio but was locked out? Well Sunday morning I took a class hot 75 minute power yoga class at the gym I’m teaching at, and it was awesome! Sweaty, vinyasa, flowing fun & bliss. I loved every hot hanumanasana second. Sunday as a family, Scott, Skylar, and I went to the Artfest of Scottsdale. It was so much fun walking around looking at the handcrafted and one-of-a-kind pieces of art ranging from glass to sculpture to paintings....

Anyway though, I have the Blackberry Curve and have service with Verizon but have always wondered if I should switch to the iPhone with AT & T. Thoughts? Do you have an iPhone? Does the touch screen ever get annoy you? The main reason I have stayed loyal to Verizon is because the service in California was much better with Verizon than AT & T but I will say, the iPhones look so cool and my iPod is just like the iPhones and I like it, but sometimes do have to bang double click on the screen for my command to register....