Plant-based Fresh and Foraged Recipes
This post should be titled, “How the Grinch Made Christmas”, because these delicious, green treats are sure to have everyone feeling in the Christmas Spirit. My vegan matcha truffles have a smooth, cashew-based, matcha-flavored inside and a dark, silky chocolate coating. They are perfect to …
Here is my homage to that perfect, cozy, holiday season- spruce sugar cookies with a spruce vegan buttercream frosting. Walking by a Christmas tree lot, or through an evergreen forest, you’re greeted with whiffs of sharp, sweet and refreshing spruce or pine. The smell evokes …
Soft and sweet with a little crunch, these cookies epitomize the wholesome Fall cookie, without making any sacrifices in flavor. These vegan apple cookies are sweetened with maple syrup, held together with almond butter, and punctuated with hearty oats and sweet, seasonal apples. Spiced with …
Everyone from New England knows that September and October are the months to go apple picking- sure, you can buy a small bag of apples at the store, but it’s far more traditional to go out to the orchard and fill a half-bushel with twenty …
Lightly sweetened, bright, vegan lemon scones with a sweet and sour, spiced turmeric glaze. The flavors give a delicate touch to these hardy pastries, which beg to be placed in a basket near a steaming pot of tea. These biscuit-like treats have become a favorite …
Back when I was young, on Halloween after trick-or-treating, came the all important affair of candy sorting, tasting, and trade negotiations. Almond joys and Mounds bars were immediately discarded into the “donate to dad” pile. Snickers, Skittles, KitKat and others were all open for negotiation. …
What could be better than rich, smooth, dark chocolate brownies? Sweet and bitter all in one. Maybe if you added a fruity component- a little bit of tartness. Sprinkle a little salt on top, and all the sudden we’re hitting four of our five major …
Baking tends to be a more time-intensive, technique-heavy form of cooking. But it doesn’t have to be! I’ve recently started making these super easy fruit dessert (vegan clafoutis), and my smile and my waistline are both a little broader. These delicious, cake-like desserts are as …
For a long time I thought banana bread might be the best thing in the world. Sweet (but not so sweet you feel the cavities coming in), moist on the inside, crisp on the outside. Fragrant, filling, and not very fussy. I recently realized I had been wrong- cranberry banana bread is better. It’s everything banana bread is, but every bite is punctuated by bright, sharp, sour notes from the gem-like cranberries. The contrast in the flavors is wonderful, and really elevates the already amazing banana bread.
Well, the title already gave away almost half the recipe, but I still have 3 more ingredients to share with you for these delicious 5-ingredeint vegan banana peanut butter cookies. And a whole lot more to write before I get to those three ingredients. If you’re not interested in learning more about how I got to this recipe, you can click on the link for a print-friendly version to get straight to the baking- if not, follow me in an adventure of laziness, cookies and non-human primates.