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 →