Apple cookies are a fun way to get your apple a day! Load up slices of apple with your favorite toppings for a sweet, satisfying, guilt-free snack! Continuing on with my easy apple snacks (can you tell I bought a lot of apples??), we’re here to talk about apple cookies. I saw the idea on the blog …
Caramel apple slices – making a caramel apple a little bit easier to eat! And eat and eat. I’m a day late and a dollar short. (Anyone know where that saying is from?!) At least I’m a day late for celebrating Caramel Apple Day, which this blog claims was October 21 (i.e. yesterday). Apparently it’s not …
Spicy and sweet and weirdly addicting – I call them apple matchsticks! Welcome to the second installment for my week of simple apple recipes! I call these apple matchsticks. These sort of happened by accident. Originally these were going to be matchstick fries. So even though these aren’t matchstick fries, I feel like matchsticks is still an …
Cinnamon apple chips. No added sugar, no dehydrator required! Vegan, gluten-free, and healthy snack any time. We are going to play a little game. I have several quick and easy apple recipes that I am going to share with you this week. October IS National Apple Month, after all. (Side note: do you go apple …
Are you brave enough to try chickpea cookie dough? This is a no-bake, vegan recipe meant to be a healthy alternative for those cookie dough cravings. Chickpea cookie dough. Yes, I said chickpea. Wait, hear me out. I could have tried to trick you the way I was tricked and call it “Healthy Protein Cookie …
Broccoli crescent wrap – broccoli and cheese goodness all wrapped up in crescent roll dough. Easy, quick vegetarian dinner, made healthy by swapping out the mayonnaise!
Almond joy energy bites – perfect bite sized healthy snacks to beat that chocolate craving! Vegan & gluten-free sweet treats ready in less than 10 minutes.
Delicious homemade burger buns mixed, raised and ready in under an hour! Great if you’re having a cookout or summer party. Burger buns have been on my list to make for a while. I am completely in love with bread, but I don’t actually buy it that often since I know it’s pretty easy to …
Vegan and gluten free wrap made with collard greens, veggies and sunflower hummus. This sunflower wrap is full of healthy flavors! You might be thinking, what is a sunflower wrap? Well, I *think* I just made that up. “Collard greens wrap” just didn’t have the same ring to it. Since this was inspired by the vegan …
Curry sunflower hummus – Change out your normal chickpea hummus and make it out of sunflower seeds instead! Curry and cayenne spices give it an extra kick of flavor. I stopped by a vegan restaurant earlier this summer and had a meal that included a curry sunflower hummus. Up until that moment, I didn’t even realize people …
Grown up grilled cheese with two sauces, two types of cheese, and two kinds of fruits (including tomato). Loaded with flavor! It was supposed to thunderstorm here all day yesterday. I was prepared to put on some yoga pants, eat comfort food and settle in on my couch with the windows open. Guess what? It didn’t rain. …
Spicy summer grits – creamy grits with jalapeno and fresh corn. This is a hit with people who don’t even normally love grits! Perhaps it’s a bit presumptuous for me to say this dish will change how you feel about grits – maybe you already love grits? I, for one, was not a fan until …
A delicious, easy recipe for lemon blueberry cookies. Fresh blueberries and a light lemon flavor in a cookie that kind of tastes like a muffin top! A perfect dessert recipe for summer. It appears I may have a bit of a blueberry obsession. First there was blueberry banana bread. I washed that down with some blueberry …
Heirloom tomato tart with homemade puff pastry, vegan pesto, and heirloom tomatoes. Delicious! If you’ve been following along, we started this week with homemade puff pastry, a vegan almond pesto, and we’re finishing up the week with the finished product: heirloom tomato tart. Isn’t it a beaut? I used mini heirloom tomatoes. They were just too …
(Vegan) Basil spinach almond pesto. Don’t have pine nuts? Or parmesan? No problem! You can still make a basil pesto spread, no cheese or pine nuts required! Part 1 of my “make everything from scratch” meal was making homemade puff pastry. Part two… pesto! I’ll admit I never made pesto from scratch before, so when I realized …
Rough puff pastry – a quicker version of making your own homemade puff pastry dough, with ingredients you probably already have on hand! Flashback to a few days ago: me, standing in the frozen section of the grocery store. Puff pastry dough was nowhere to be found. Rather than giving up the idea of my …
Quick and easy zucchini boats – a healthy meal or snack that will be ready in just 5 minutes. Endless options for toppings and an excellent way to use your zucchini harvest! Zucchini is everywhere right now. We always need more easy recipes to use up zucchini! Traditional zucchini “boats” actually scoop out the inside …
Easy honey baked peaches with brie and (optional) thyme. A sweet and healthy treat with only 3 or 4 ingredients, and ready in 15 minutes! Helloooo peaches! FUN FACT about me: When I was in college and too lazy to cook, I once (maybe twice) ate a can of peaches for dinner. Since that is …
Sweet Hawaiian bread – copycat version of King’s Hawaiian rolls! Pineapple juice adds the sweetness to this fluffy yeast bread. Growing up, I loved when my mom would buy Hawaiian bread from the store. Not sure if it was because they cost a little more than regular bread, or because I ate them so fast (probably …
Skinny chocolate brownies made with applesauce and Greek yogurt and are almost cupcake-like in texture. These healthy (or at least healthier) brownies make for a great guilt-free dessert. Skinny and chocolate don’t normally go in the same sentence, do they? But anything that helps convince me I can eat chocolate without having to run for 500 hours …