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This recipe has me really excited! If you like cookie dough as much as I do, I know you will love these little doughy balls. The beauty of this recipe is that because they are vegan (and gluten free) so you don’t have to worry when eating raw cookie dough. Well, the only worry is that these little cookie dough bites are good. A little too good. Ahem. Tip: You can make them in batches and store extras in a tub in the freezer and take out a handful at a time....

What else have I been up to? I whipped up a quick-n-chocolatey raw vegan dessert that requires nothing but a bowl, spoon, and the freezer. Music to your tastebuds, I know. Averie’s Raw Vegan Chocolate Coconut Snow Balls 1.5 cups shredded coconut 3/4 c maple syrup (or agave to be technically raw) 3/4 c cocoa powder Dash Vanilla Extract Optional: 1/4 c coconut oil (I used it and encourage it!...

We love yummy and easy bundt cake recipes like this popular Nothing Bundt Cake and this Chocolate Bundt Cake. And, if you’re looking for more inspiration, we’ve got dozens of amazing cake recipes. Nothing makes my mouth water like a gorgeous cake with homemade frosting! I love how easy bundt cakes are to frost and make beautiful, with hardly any effort. This homemade Red Velvet Bundt Cake is easy and delicious....

Looking for more soup recipes? Try Creamy Tortellini Soup, Broccoli Cheese Soup, Corn Chowder, or Roasted Tomato Soup! Why I love this recipe: Flavorful – The process of roasting the cauliflower and garlic brings such a delicious flavor to this soup! Creamy – We love the ultra smooth texture and flavor of this roasted cauliflower and garlic soup. It’s perfect on a cold day served with crusty bread or in a bread bowl....

Some other family favorite soup recipes include Chicken Tortilla Soup and Corn Chowder with Chilies. I love all soups, but I especially love soups that are healthy AND delicious. This Roasted Tomato Soup proves that they don’t have to be chocked full of cream or butter to taste amazing! This is my favorite type of soup from Panera Bread Co–I can never order anything else! This recipe is adapted from Ina Garten and is absolutely delicious!...

Looking for more seafood recipes? Try this California Roll, Poke Bowl, Seared Scallops, or Kung Pao Shrimp! Why I love this recipe: Quick – This may be my top favorite 30-minute meal! It’s delicious, fresh, and leaves you feeling energized. Healthy – These salmon rice bowls are my favorite when I want a hearty but fresh dinner, but loaded with fresh vegetables and protein. Incredible – The air fryer gives this teriyaki salmon the perfect crispy texture on the outside, but is still so moist and flavorful....

You know those weeknights when you have no idea what you’re going to make for dinner but you know you better come up with something before either you or a family member has a meltdown? Yeah, those nights. Well this meal prevented meltdowns in our house. It’s also vegan depending on the cheese used. And very flavorful thanks to the salsa. The salsa verde I used packs a little heat and kick....

comment icon 141 more comments Appropriate gooeyness Fudgification Density Texture Thickness Imagine your most thick, dense, fudgy, rich, beautifully underbaked brownie. Now imagine it studded with soft caramel. Not like a sickly-sweet caramel. A just-right, flavor-rich, soft, silky caramel. That you made yourself, cause you’re a boss, duh. Now imagine that the sticky tops of the caramel pools on top of your brownies are not only oozing with love from the sides of the adorable Pinterest-level heart-cut-outs, but that they are also speckled with delicate, flakey sea salt....

My Favorite Unique Christmas Cookies These everything but the kitchen sink cookies are a spinoff of my Cowboy Cookies meets Compost Cookies. Trust me when I say that all the ingredients work together really well and even though you may raise an eyebrow, I promise am not leading you astray. The cookies are soft, chewy, there is tons of texture from all the add-ins, and if you love salty-sweet treats, these will be a new favorite for you....

comment icon 31 more comments Bjork was working out, girls were in bed, sushi hadn’t come yet and I was just so extremely hungry. So I raided the pantry and found a package of those Momofuku noodles – which, obviously, are delicious, but have always just been lacking a certain lusciousness to my tastebuds. So I made the noodles as directed, and then added a knob of butter for creaminess, a drizzle of honey for sweetness, and a glug of sesame oil for depth....

Poached eggs on spaghetti with homemade tomato sauce issss basically the best thing ever. And I’ve been eating it all week. Just try to stop that dinner train, I dare you. Either move outta the way or jump on this one because here it comes. I’ll just call it out like I usually do with these kinds of recipes: eggs on spaghetti might be a little Dr. Seuss or something....

This means that if I don’t get to your blog every day to comment anymore, nothing personal, I just don’t have time. Eventually I’ll try to catch up on all your posts and I do read in stealth a lot and not comment. A big time saver! Today I got in a nice Lifting Workout at home. They came from my Workout Tab Scroll down to the part about If you Can’t Get to the Acutal Gym… That’s what I did....

This weekend, something crazy happened. I was about to go to the gym so that I could take it easy on the elliptical while playing on my phone. #trashy But instead of going to the gym, I agreed to photograph ten casseroles for Bon Appetit. Before Monday. But really, it was no big deal. I was just a hot mess all weekend, but seriously, NBD. I started cooking on Saturday....

The bowl in the very center was a dime. 10 cents! You can’t even buy a tampon in a vending machine a gumball for a ten cents anymore, but you can buy a little dish. The little dish came in very handy for a photoshoot I did yesterday for a new recipe. It involved a Chip-fecta I filled it up with one of my fave items: butterscotch chips Next score were these plates....

Easy Poke Cake Recipe If you love poke cakes like I do, this is one that is fast and easy to make and it’s sure to be a hit with everyone. This is a great summer party, picnic, or potluck cake because it’s nice and light, and the butterscotch and whipped topping aspects makes me think of ice cream sundaes in the summer. Since I love yellow cake, this cake is right up my alley....

Bjork here checking in for Pinch of Yum’s monthly traffic and income report. As some of you might know, we’ve been doing these reports for quite a while now. Almost five years! We published our first one way back in September of 2011. These reports started as an experiment to see if it was possible to build a food blog into a business. After a few years of hard work, we found that it was....

Thanks for everyone who wrote in to tell me they were digging the Raw Vegan Apple Crumble Recipe And of course, thanks for all your comments on hair salons and pampering yourself and what your strategy is on that. My gameplan with my hair, cuz I am not really loving it, is to give it 2 weeks, and I have an appointment lined up with a new girl that I found, and in 2 weeks if I still wanna be blonder, she’s gonna hook me up....

Seriously though, I’ve had a nice day and weekend. I went to a wonderful hot power yoga class today, got my teacher training groove on Saturday morning because I’m pursing the highest level of yoga certification and today, Sunday, I’ve hung out with Skylar, and we’re going to have a girls-only dinner before Scott makes his way back from the sports bar just in time to play Barbies with us....

I worked over the weekend which was interesting. As my boss said, “It’s been a shit show in here.” That pretty much sums it up, but whatever. Work’s over for a few days and that’s all I care about. Katie swears on her blog, too. I’m not alone. Why bleep it out anymore? Hope you don’t mind. In honor of having my “weekend” start on Sunday, we decided to hit up a restaurant in our neighborhood....

Every once in a while, I sit down at the computer to write a post and my brain is literally empty. Zero words. No thoughts. BLEH. And by every once in a while I mean all the time lately. Usually I am overflowing with words and thoughts and ideas and random stories that I feel an urgent need to share on a food blog (?), but somehow that just poof disappears when I try to write at times like 11pm or 5am, which has kind of been the norm as of lately....