When media gets hooked on a food trend, they have a tendency to feature it day in and day out. Kind of like when a radio station plays that popular song every 3 hours…… Hence the reason you’ve probably heard you should be adding turmeric to your every day, or that acai berries should replace […]
August 21, 2016
this … Last weekend we ate these Gluten-Free Brown Rice Waffles on the dock of a lakeside cabin we rented (for road trips, I always bring our waffle maker!), and I joked that I wanted to start a dockside waffle shop. Like a food truck, fly by style. These simple waffles would always be on […]

August 16, 2016
These Beet Deviled Eggs are the prettiest magenta color! The filling gets its beautiful hue from golden egg yolks and raw beet grated in. They have rich flavor from the yolks and garlic, along with lemon juice to bright things, and secret ingredient – pickle juice! The beet filling is super creamy and the pink […]

August 10, 2016
Lettuce might not be top of mind when it comes to grilling. I get it! A few years ago I too thought, “lettuce is so delicate, I just don’t think that will work. But after trying it, I understand why I was seeing it on restaurants everywhere. Because grilled romaine lettuce is amazing, and incredibly […]

August 2, 2016
About this Vegan Beet Smoothie: It’s cooling and fruity, with just a slight hint of beet, and I mean slight… the perfect, herbaceous counter to the sweet raspberries and coconut. The color….. a hue of magenta that jumps out and glistens, just like these beet deviled eggs! The bright pink nearly makes my heart nearly […]

July 25, 2016
I’m 32. I know that isn’t old – but I do notice little signs of change. It takes longer for my muscles to recover, I can’t stretch nearly like I used to, I see wrinkles and varicose veins peaking through. I remind myself that all of those things are okay, and normal – a natural result of our […]

July 18, 2016
Last year I set out on a mission to perfect dairy-free ice cream, and I quickly fell in love with this Salty Honey Coconut Milk Ice Cream. I’m not vegan, nor intolerant to dairy (I’ve healed from the issues I had last year), I just really love the taste and the ease of making coconut milk […]

Tags: Chocolate
July 14, 2016
There’s a watering hole just a few blocks away from our place in St. Paul that I can’t stop going to, The Commodore. It was a swanky St. Paul hotel (with a bar) in the 1920’s and 30’s, a time when gangsters made their way through the Wabasha street caves, jazz became glamorous, and women were shortening their […]

July 10, 2016
this … It’s been amazing week, launching my Salty Date Caramel Scotcheroo Bars that are available to order thanks to a collaboration with Cake in a Crate. That means you can buy the plant-based kit to make these, and have it delivered straight to your door. One of you will WIN my Cake in a Crate, […]

Tags: Chocolate
July 1, 2016
this … Summer. The time when food revels in simplicity, just as nature intended, more so than any other time of year. I wait months for the first bite of this, and the first slice of that. And the anticipation and satisfaction is soon followed by fear of the last. Sliced tomatoes with salt and […]

June 29, 2016
this … I *may* have broken some rules with this two egg omelette. It’s no French classic, but it is an Amanda classic, meaning cook with what you have even if it’s unusual, and improvise as you go. When we returned home from our mini getaway deep in the southern Minnesota woods, I opened the refrigerator the next morning, […]

June 24, 2016
this … Months of testing, hours of photographing and editing, years of wanting to sell my own product, and a whole lot of love poured into this project…. And it’s finally ready. You may have seen a few sneak peeks on Instagram, but I’m so excited to finally share my Salty Date Caramel Scotcheroos that you can […]

Tags: Chocolate
June 21, 2016