A creamy, dairy free homemade ice cream is possible!! This one is infused with earl grey and lavender, then sweetened with honey! I’ve had to get creative over the last 5 months or so of not eating dairy while nursing my little man and have found that you can still enjoy most things using alternative…
Vegetarian Eggs Benedict with Dairy Free Hollandaise
Did you know that Hollandaise sauce can be made with coconut oil and lemon juice instead of butter to create a dairy free Eggs Benedict? Where you would normally blend melted butter with lemon juice into submission, you use melted coconut oil. This is surprisingly simple to accomplish with the help of your trusty blender…
Baked Spaghetti Stuffed Spaghetti Squash + Dairy Free Option
Baked Spaghetti that is low carb and stuffed into a spaghetti squash? Sign me up! This makes a delicious, super filling weekday dinner with plenty of leftovers for multiple dinners or lunch the next day! You can totally make it vegan as well by just excluding the sausage from the sauce! This was one of…
Cherry Mascarpone Ice Cream
The 90 degree heat wave with 150% humidity we’ve been having is quite miserable, especially considering our 20 year old HVAC unit is struggling to keep up. It seems about the only way to survive this summer heat is to eat all of the frozen things. So it’s a good reason to whip up a…
Blood Orange Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
What do I do when I have leftovers of some random ingredient like blood orange glaze? I come up with another new recipe! Ha! I actually love the combination of chocolate and citrus, particularly orange. So when I had leftover blood orange glaze from these happy little donuts and some overripe bananas begging to be…
Blood Orange Glazed Donuts
Sweet little baked donuts coated in a pretty pink blood orange glaze and sprinkles sure will brighten your day! I’ve been wanting to use blood oranges in a recipe for some time now. There’s something so special about fruit that looks different and has a slightly different flavor. So when we were recently on a…
German Chocolate Cupcakes
I hate coconut. There. I said it. It’s not the flavor, but the texture that I despise. And what I’ve found is that there are two camps when it comes to coconut and most people have their feet planted firmly in one or the other. For me, it’s a texture thing I can’t get past,…
Butternut Squash Wild Rice Soup
Soup is such a fall and winter food! So cozy and warming. It really is the perfect food for a cold night! And this is totally one of our favorite soups to have all fall and winter long. It’s hearty, full of flavor, healthy, and it makes a TON! This recipe starts with butternut squash,…