Category Archive: Easy

Kefir Smoothie with Avocado, Banana, Cinnamon, and Honey

I have already sung kefir’s praises, and if you don’t hear about it again it’s because I plan to use my kefir to make this smoothie every day forever. A friend gave me… Continue reading

Cucumber Avocado Banana Smoothie with Kumquats and Ginger

My lovely neighbors gave me some kumquats yesterday with which I have limited experience, but now certainly hope to have more!! And I was looking up cucumber banana smoothie recipes (since that’s pretty… Continue reading

Kefir Ranch Salad Dressing

I haven’t talked about it much, but I’m pretty obsessed with homemade kefir these days. You don’t really need a recipe for kefir, you just need kefir grains (which are complexes of bacteria… Continue reading

Graham Cracker Marshmallow Bars

Despite all the s’mores we ate over Memorial Day, I got sent home with a box of graham crackers and a giant bag of marshmallows (not sure who scored the chocolate…). I decided… Continue reading

Ricotta Coconut-flour Pancakes

This is an example of what happens when I break my own rule of over substitution. Basically, this recipe from The Kitchn is already one standard deviation away from regular pancakes because of… Continue reading

S’mores Pie

We wanted to make s’mores but it was the middle of the day and we didn’t have a fire going, so our first thought was to make a bunch of them in the… Continue reading

“Green” Bean and Tomato Salad

First, a note: if you start with beautiful three-colored beans, do not do anything that involves blanching them (like this recipe from Ligonier Country Market) because the purple beans will lose their color!… Continue reading

Pumpkin Seed Coconut ‘Granola’

‘Granola’ in quotes because there’s no grains, which is where I would assume the ‘gran’ part is from. Anyway… I was inspired by this delicious granola-fruit-honey-yogurt-spices concoction I got for brunch over the… Continue reading

Chocolate Toffee Matzah

Finally something I made to share that was actually worthy of sharing! These were stupid good. And they break into these odd-sized pieces, which means that people can be like, “well maybe I’ll… Continue reading

Matzo Brei Muffins

I had bought this gf matzah and I wanted to make matzo brei, one of my favorite Passover foods, but I wanted to do something fun. Enter this recipe from Cupcake Project (which… Continue reading