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10 Easy Frozen Treats to Cool You Down

This weekend, we’ll hit the first day of the last month of summer. It’s that time of year when we all should really, really take it easy. Try to go slow. Savor the long days of sunshine.

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Savory Oatmeal

I have a confession. I’m a member of a group with a certain, um, proclivity. It’s not unique. Everyone has these particular fantasies. We just go one step further and make these fantasies reality. Then we take photos and share it with every

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Vegan and Paleo Caramel Sauce

Could it be true? A vegan AND paleo-friendly* caramel sauce? Move over olive branch, I think this may bring peace on Earth.

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Pudding Parfait

Dessert for breakfast was never this good (for you). And fancy parfaits make it look like its all complicated. Ssssh. It’s not. Which makes it perfect for Back-to-School Breakfasts!

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How to be a Locavore Lush

It was 1:00 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I needed a designated driver. One of the benefits hazards of my job is that indulging shamelessly is a midday necessity from time to time. This week, I had an appointment with my friend, Elizabeth Gilgunn,

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How to Make Avocado Sandwiches (Thug Kitchen-Approved!)

Its not every week that I swoon over a tweet. But last week I did. Thug Kitchen tweeted me. You know it. I favorited and retweeted that thing quick. And its all because of these avocado sandwiches.

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A Berry Good Smoothie

“Winter fashion” may be an oxymoron but this “healthy treat” is not! Head on over to Pittsburgh Magazine to get the skinny on spring cleaning (not with a broom – with The Clean Plate Cleanse) and FREE tickets to the Farm to Table Conference

vegan brownies

Five-Minute Fudge Brownies

Its 10 o’clock. Do you know where your brownies are? That’s the question that confronted me last night as I bolted to the kitchen, hyperventilating, realizing, that NO, I didn’t know where my brownies are. And I had an excruciating craving

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Happy New Year and The Top 5 of 2012!

Hello everyone! A belated Happy New Year! (or a very early one if you celebrate other “New Year” dates — because you know, it happens all year!)

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Pineapple Coconut Mint Slush

Here’s reason number 1 why I love this recipe – you can use things you may otherwise just throw out: the pineapple core and the water leftover from making coconut whipped cream. Heck, you can TOP this with coconut whipped cream!

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How to Make Coconut Whipped Cream

Today I bought a hand blender. I’ve never owned one and have always made do with my KitchenAid. Or my stick blender. Never really had a pressing need for a hand blender. Until today. My trip to the Farmers’ Market yesterday required me to m

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Easy Summer Rolls

We’ve hit it. Summer Solstice. 93 degrees. Heat index 100. Cooking is a bad word. RAW is good. Now while these rolls are technically not 100% raw (the rice had to be turned into paper rolls at some point!), let’s not split hairs. You will n

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Vegan Spinach Pie {Yes It Can Be Done} + GIVEAWAY! {Read ON}

Yum….here’s a spin on spinach pie that uses no dairy. How can that be??? It uses — hold your breath — tofu! I know. I know. How dare I. But one bite of this puff pastry-enrobed nibble and you’ll understand why. I will never let you down.

vegan burger

The Best Veggie Burger Ever. {Bonus Miso Mayo Recipe)

Ah, just in time for Memorial Day weekend! Your new favorite veggie burger – packed with as much umami as I can think of and so worth the gamut of ingredients (make a double, triple batch — the whole summer is ahead of us!)

gluten free chickpea fries

Chickpea Fries (Part 2. It deserves a sequel.)

I know I posted a recipe for these already but I love these so much I had to write about it on Pittsburgh Magazine. In this post, I give you a great NEW variation: Curried Chickpea Fries with Chili Mayo. #drool.

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Cereal Milk Panna Cotta with Caramelized Cornflakes and Strawberry Puree

Here’s an homage to Momofuku and mommy. And a kudos to the imagination of Milk Bar‘s brilliant Christina Tosi – James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year! A wonderful reimagining of your favorite childhood breakfast. Just in time for mother’

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“I Love Me” Smoothie

May is So Delicious SO MUCH TO LOVE Month! What does that mean? So Delicious is having a weekly contest with each week themed Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack/Dessert. My recipes are finalists in three categories and I will post them as they

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The Brazen Kitchen Cinco de Mayo Menu

Cinco de Mayo es manana (how do you do an en-ye, looks like I’m saying something altogether different, hmmm). Here’s your menu to beat out all other menus in existence. A taco like you’ve never had it, a chili with chocolate (yep) and the m

lemon herb dressing

The best salad dressing ever.

I know that sounds hyperbolic but take it from someone who thinks salad is anathema in the cold months. And here in Pittsburgh, that would be 3/4 of the year — in this tropical girl’s definition of “cold”.

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Chocolate Chia Pudding

Its that time of year! My oven starts to take a break and I get more and more into un-cooking. I also like to spend more time outdoors so “quick and easy” are paramount. And I would like to share with you one of my family’s favorite spring/

vegan moroccan chickpea soup

Harira {Hey. Hot stuff.}

Valentine’s Day is over but the love doesn’t have to end. In fact, the embers should have been stoked and this soup is perfect for keeping the fire going. Traditionally served after Ramadan to break the fast, I think Harira (or Moroccan Chi

gluten free pancakes

Valentine’s Day Pancakes

Pink and fluffy and…”rustic” (if you don’t have fancy heart molds). These pancakes, while yummy, started out quite “empty” in my book until the impending arrival of Valentine’s Day pushed for pinkness to please the kids. Eschewing food colo

chocolate banana bites

Love Nuggets: Frozen Chocolate Banana Bites

Just wanted to share something I saw over at Pinterest — among the plethora of other pinteresting things. This isn’t even really a recipe — it takes so little to make this and the rewards are so great.

chickpea fries

Chickpea Fries with Garlic Mayo

I know. I know. I just posted about a cleansing soup and now I turn around and post this chickpea fry atrocity. I am not trying to sabotage you. I’m trying to help you. The fact is, when you are transitioning to a more healthful way of life

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Cleansing Comforting Miso Noodle Soup with Seaweed

Now that the seemingly unending bacchanalia that started on Thanksgiving is over, I am ready for a break. And this weather has me craving for my favorite cleansing soup. It is effortless to prepare. And like a great mathematical construct,

vegan taco

Turkmen Tacos {Beet Tacos with Arugula and Crunchy Tofu}

If greens are the new black then tacos are the new cupcakes. You remember. That seminal “Sex and the City” episode with Magnolia Bakery was an auspicious moment in cupcake history. Spawning ultra-expensive designer cupcake stores culminatin

vegan celery root soup

Celery Root Soup {Antidote for Alleged Chinese Curses}

“May you live in interesting times.” So goes the [allegedly] Chinese curse. This adage leaves me constantly vacillating between clarity and skepticism. Is it really a curse? Is it truly better to live a life of measured mellowness? Or will

no bake vegan pumpkin pie

No Bake Pumpkin Pie {Silky Smooth}

Its almost Thanksgiving Eve. Your friends are posting about baking marathons, turkey frying woes and “the best stuffing” wars on Facebook. You? You still haven’t decided on what to bring to your potluck and Homer Simpson’s “You don’t win fr

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Crispy Caramelized Brussels Sprouts over Miso Lime Noodles

In a Facebook exchange asking my friends for fiction recommendations, (I fear that reading fiction has been elevated/relegated(?) to “bucket list” level for me) a few people could not help but recommend a nonfiction book, Seabiscuit. It got

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I love Plov

I’m a fan of one pot meals. Who isn’t?

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The Last Plate of Summer

And there it is. And I didn’t know it at the time. Like so many “lasts.” The next thing I knew, I needed a sweater in the early morning. Its dark at 7:30. Hot baths feel good again. I start to smell cinnamon and nutmeg in the air.

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Fake Bake

Apologies if your search engine mistakenly led you here as you were looking to beat George Hamilton at his own game. But, don’t fret, it is a fortunate misdirection. Because now you can enjoy cookies without dealing with a hot oven. A feat

blistered peppers

Am I Hot or Not?

If you are old enough to have lived through Tech Bubble 1.0 (a.k.a. “the dot-com bubble” – who even uses the word dot-com anymore?!), you know what I’m talking about (and you also know what hampsterdance is).

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Klassy HoHos

And such is my loving relationship with that word. Come on. Have you heard anyone who was actually, truly what “classy” aspires to describe say that word? As Guy Kawasaki said, its like bragging that you’re modest. There you have it. As soo

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Cool as a Cucumber

Kick me for the cliche. My writing teacher would circle it and write C-L-I-C-H-E in big red letters. My writer friends would flinch. Groupon will never hire me. But its late and I want to post this before I go to bed. It was either that or

gluten free vegan orange poppy seed cake

Persephone’s Revenge

We’ve all had our revenge fantasies. From the “involuntary” schadenfreude to the out and out Sesame Street-style “what would happen if I pop this balloon..?” But the best revenge is always the sweet kind. Which brings me to this cake. I can

kuzu tea

Grown-Up Iced Tea

NO. This is not about those kinds served in Long Island and don’t say “Arizona” and “Iced Tea” in one sentence in my presence. Unless you are actually enduring heat in Arizona, drinking iced tea, and not the kind from a gas station grocery

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Clean and Soba

Went to the library this past weekend and took out three books: Everyday Harumi, The Japanese Kitchen and Momofuku. Everyday Harumi and Momofuku are making the transition to my Amazon shopping cart.

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Lentil Chili with Chocolate

Its Cinco de Mayo. And this recipe has nothing to do with it. I say that because I fear the Mexican equivalent of the A.O.C. if I claim otherwise. While this is not in any way, shape, or form, claiming to be a version of Oaxacan mole, consi

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Garlicky Linguine with Maple Tempeh

I know. I know. I promised I would be gentle. And here I go, not even a month along and I’m already posting about tempeh. Wait, wait. Before you throw your hands up in “I-knew-she-was-going-to-go-all-vegan-granola-on-me” disbelief and close

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Guacaboule

This recipe was an accident. I declare that because — while tempting — it would be absolutely disingenuous to take full culinary credit. It is dangerous. I can eat this whole thing in one sitting.

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Love + Food: Raw Cheesecake with Chocolate Ganache

It is very easy to create metaphors between love and food. Food is divine – an appetizing allegory for love – which is definitely and infinitely delectable. Both are visceral, encompassing and intellectually impossible to reduce down to the

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Hack the Mac!

I don’t think I need to write a long preamble to mac and cheese.

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Quinoa Cornmeal Skillet Bread

I haven’t posted in a while. Temporary single-parenting stints and multiple travel bouts in succession have resulted in what feels like a perpetual game of catch-up with routine. Now that summer has started in full force, I feel like I’m fi

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Carrot Spice Cake with Coconut Cream Frosting

Cinnamon. Nutmeg. Cloves. It seems like as soon as fall season hits, these spices find their way to the front of my spice rack. It’s the delicious aroma of fall.

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Fall Fritters

October. The first real breath of fall. The air is crisp. The leaves are starting to turn. Summer’s bright white hue changes to a spectrum of browns, reds, rust, orange and yellow…And I start to yearn for winter squash.

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Spaghetti with Garlicky White Beans, Roasted Beets and Asparagus

I don’t think that “haste makes waste” is always necessarily true. I think sometimes, it becomes an opportunity for unplanned efficiencies. That’s what happened to me the other day. Distracted by a conversation of cascading causalities fixa

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It IS Easy Being Green….If You’re Green Lemonade

As you can see that is a picture of my 5-year old son, juicing. Now, this is not some staged photo-op. He asks to juice. He loves it. Granted, his Green Lemonade is less green than orange, although, everyday his tolerance for the “green par

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Raw Fetzucchini Alfredo

Time and again, my body would crave for food that is fresh and alive. In the summer, we try to have raw food as much as we can. In the winter, when warming food is most attractive to me and I have it constantly — after a long stretch, I get

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Quinoa Kasha Pilaf with Tamari Maple Tempeh

Trust me on tempeh. I know tempeh is one of those great dividers — that qualifier in your head that puts people left of the crunchy left. I must confess that this recipe was my rite of passage. I made tempeh once, years ago, to horrific res

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Homemade High Fiber Light Pumpernickel Bread (No Need to Knead!)

I have so much reverence for the craft of making bread and have utter respect for the talented artisans that make them. To me, it seems like the most meditative baking ritual, and only those blessed with the innate intuition would know how

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8 Soups to Warm Your Bones This Winter

Record low temps are upon us and this tropical fish is planning to spend those days in her super thermal pajamas under an arctic-grade comforter. This weekend, I am cooking up a few batches of soup and getting ready. Here are my 8 go-to’s i

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Mashed Potato Quinoa Puffs with Sriracha Mayo

Fiddling with mashed potatoes sounds like a Rube Goldberg exercise, but, dear reader, to come up with a way to liberate it from the confines of a table and fork setting, to be enjoyed wherever we please – this is a necessary complication.

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Start The Year Right Salad

The mother of all Mondays is the first day back at work in January. That day has two sides. The glass-half-empty side is like, “Ugh, I can’t believe the food bender that started at Thanksgiving has to end.” (Suuuure, you can soften the blow

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What Does Trevett Hooper Eat at Home?

Among many other things – including the flawless flavors coming from his kitchen at Legume that garnered his prestigious James Beard Award nomination in 2013 – Chef Trevett Hooper has been known for his vision of sustainability that tends t

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