Perhaps the easiest and tastiest St. Patrick’s Day treat, Irish Potatoes are a no-cook candy that features cinnamon, coconut, and cream cheese. They’re great for making with kids, giving as gifts, or devouring yourself (because let’s be honest, you can’t eat just one). WHAT ARE IRISH POTATOES? Let’s get this out of the way: Contrary…
Rum-Caramelized Banana Berry Nut Crumble
As someone who dislikes both bananas and berries, the fact that this recipe exists on this blog is practically a pre-Christmas miracle. Fruity desserts aren’t typically my jam– Get it? Jam? …Sorry — but I had to step outside of my chocolate-covered comfort zone last week. You see, my brother, the king of clean eating,…
Nutella Pumpkin Samoa Cookies
Happy Halloweekend! I know we’re excited about the here-and-now holiday, but I want to throw it back for just a second. Long, long ago, in the fabulous, fabled era of the nineteen-nineties, I was a young girl who had a vast and varied collection of beanie babies, a stockpile of gel pens, a dozen audio cassettes, three Lisa Frank folders, two tamagotchis,…
Thai Curry Turkey Burgers with Spicy Mayo and Coconut-Lime Slaw
For all of the things I get nervous about– and trust me, despite my totally cool demeanor, there are a lot of them: flying, accidentally stepping on bugs when I’m barefoot, and parallel parking, for example– I’m not one to hesitate when it comes to experimenting with seasoning and spice. What comes of these fearless forays into flavor-town? Sometimes it’s…
Rainbow Sherbet Smoothies
Every time I sat at the bench at the entrance of Sunnyside Farms, that fat, old black dog would waddle over and plop down in front of me, resting his back against my leg, looking up at my ice cream cone impatiently. Sunnyside Farms was my absolute favorite place as a kid, although to us it was…
Slow Cooker Thai Chicken and Noodles
When I was in college, if you asked me what I’d like to eat, the answer was always “Thai food”. There was a little restaurant in the corner of a strip mall that was tucked behind the highway, with a big sign on the front window that boasted “The Best Thai Cuisine in Town”– rightfully…
Thai Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Soup
Usually I’m pretty convinced that “make it in the slow cooker” is all I have to say in order to turn some heads around here, but it tends to take a lot more to coerce James and Mike into trying a recipe without ruling it out before they take a bite. Include anything that even…
Thai Cashew Coconut Rice with Ginger Peanut Sauce
I go to barbecues and shovel pasta salad in my mouth like it’s going out of style. Seriously, I load up with enough dressing-doused noodles to make my paper plate sag down in the middle, and then I go back for seconds. And thirds. I love the stuff. For obvious reasons, pasta salad has been…
Coco Pina Margarita
I have my first sunburn of the year, everyone. It’s not of the same, near-watermelon pink fate that my boyfriend’s poor skin endured, nor the kind that leaves uneven strips of ghostly white where sunglasses or tank top straps once rested. Still, it’s there. Just barely. Really I do mean just barely, but there’s…
