Snow day? Here in Southern California we can only dream of having a snow day. But we had a great time on a recent rainy day making these “Snow Day” gluten-free cookies. They’re easy, they take surprisingly few ingredients, and they are so irresistibly delicious you might just spend your whole “indoor” day eating them […]
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Raw Chocolate and Cherry Mousse Tart – A Vegan Dessert
What if you were craving a creamy, decadent, chocolate-y vegan dessert… but you wanted it without refined sugar or gluten or dairy or egg products? This raw chocolate and cherry mousse tart could be the answer to your dreams in more ways than one. Delicious? Check. Easy to make? Check. Full of good-for-you ingredients? Check, […]

Chocolate Zucchini Bread and Summer Zucchini Excess
Chocolate Zucchini Bread is one of the best things we associate with a bumper crop of zucchini. Chocolate and zucchini? Yes, it’s one of summer’s best-kept secrets. You can feed your family zucchini all summer long, as long as there’s chocolate involved. Summer Zucchini Excess Zucchini is one of those garden crops that, if it’s […]

Vegan Gluten Free Chocolate Cake
Looking for a vegan gluten free chocolate cake that everyone can love? Look no further than this Moist Chocolate CakeĀ from Jill Nussinow’s new cookbook Vegan Under Pressure. (Wait – pressure?!?! That’s right – it’s made in a pressure cooker!) We know that’s a lot of information to process in just a few sentences. So […]

Chocolate Covered Strawberries, Love, and ‘Atypical’ Kids
You’re going to see a lot of chocolate covered strawberries in this post because a) they’re delicious and super-easy to make; and b) they represent the character Sam’s bumbling effort at courtship in the irresistible show “Atypical” on Netflix. Strawberries = Love “Atypical” is a coming of age story that follows Sam (played by […]

Teenagers, TV, and Comfort Food
The care and feeding of teenagers is a tricky proposition. Yes, they want more food, but not *that* food. Yes, they want to talk, but not really about *that.* Yes, they want you to be there for them, but not *that* much. How do you get close enough and involved enough with your teen without […]
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