17 Healthy Whole30 Snacks
These 17 wholesome Whole30 snacks will keep you on track to finish out your month right! There is something for everyone on this list. If you're one of the warriors completing a September Whole30 despite being knee-deep in e-learning and a seemingly endless quarantine, this one is for you. Also: I admire your strength. Even if you're not following this protocol, these snacks are still for you. A Whole30 focuses on eating real food: No sugar, dairy, grains, or legumes, and ... Read More about 17 Healthy Whole30 Snacks
Grain Free and Gluten Free Zucchini Cake
This gluten-free zucchini cake is moist, dense, and smothered in cream cheese frosting. Sweetened with maple sugar, it's a delicious grain- and gluten-free cake you'll want to stick a fork into. While, on the surface, I have no business continuing to post zucchini recipes when we are clearly entering pumpkin season, I am clinging to three important justifications for my maverick behavior: I'm still getting zucchini in my Imperfect Produce box, and I've seen pretty ... Read More about Grain Free and Gluten Free Zucchini Cake
Easy Paleo and Gluten-Free Pizza Crust
This easy paleo pizza crust recipe is one I spent over a year perfecting. The gluten-free crust makes a perfect base to your favorite pizza, and happens to be yeast-free, dairy-free, grain-free, and paleo diet-friendly. Top it with all your favorite toppings for a dinner your entire family will enjoy. I say this with caution, but I think I finally entered the "radical acceptance" stage of quarantine. While I'm still trying to balance a full-time job, having a toddler home at all ... Read More about Easy Paleo and Gluten-Free Pizza Crust
Easy 5-Ingredient Homemade Pizza Sauce
This homemade pizza sauce is made with ingredients you'll already find in your pantry, including crushed tomatoes and Italian herbs and spices. This pizza sauce is gluten-free, sugar-free, vegan, and paleo-friendly. Enjoy it with a grain-free homemade pizza crust and your favorite toppings for your next family pizza night. Oh hey, remember me? Your friendly neighborhood grain free dessert chef? Yeah, I imagine some of you are squinting and shaking your heads, because it's been... ... Read More about Easy 5-Ingredient Homemade Pizza Sauce
10 Minute Easy Egg Salad
This is the easiest egg salad recipe you will find on the internet. Made with just five ingredients and four simple steps, this recipe is made from items already stocked in your fridge. All you need is eggs, dijon mustard, mayo, scallions, and salt and pepper for an easy snack or lunch option. Does the internet need another egg salad recipe, let alone another fairly basic one? Am I contributing anything to the greater (food) good here? Probably not, but here we are. Where food blogging ... Read More about 10 Minute Easy Egg Salad
How to Press Tofu (Without a Tofu Press)
If you don't think you like tofu, you're probably just not preparing it right! Knowing how to press tofu the right way is key to achieving successful tofu recipes, and this tutorial will teach you how to do it, without a tofu press. Follow these steps before grilling, baking, or stir-frying tofu. While many of my recipes are paleo, keto, or low-carb friendly, I don't pretend to subscribe to any one of these diets. In fact, that is how this site started: I had to eliminate a lot of ... Read More about How to Press Tofu (Without a Tofu Press)
20 Easy Recipes Made with Freezer Ingredients
My freezer is, without question, my favorite large kitchen appliance. The joke in my family is that it's genetic: my grandmother, my mom, my aunts, and I all keep fully stocked second freezers at all time. There's a method to our madness. Freezing perishable ingredients, such as meat, veggies, and fruit, is a great way to reduce food waste. It also allows you to stock up on food when it's on sale, or produce picked at peak the peak of its season (potatoes, broccoli, or kale), without ... Read More about 20 Easy Recipes Made with Freezer Ingredients
20 Easy Recipes You Can Make With Pantry Ingredients
What a whirlwind month this has been. I started writing this when I was packing my apartment in the city, and people were still able to, you know, leave their homes. Now, I live in the suburbs, we're becoming accustomed to our entire life being confined to the four walls of our new house, and I can't barely remember a time when "screen time rules" didn't elicit hysterical laughter from every mom I know. Like many of you, I'm sure, the entire state of Illinois is on lockdown - officially the ... Read More about 20 Easy Recipes You Can Make With Pantry Ingredients
106 Quarantine Activities for Toddlers and Young Kids
Phew. It has been a month hasn't it?! I won't pretend anyone is having it easy right now, and there are different categories of "not alright", but let me tell you: if you're a parent, and you're struggling right now, you are not alone. Whether you work or not, having a kid (or more than one) cooped up at home right now is bordering on agony for everyone. Cabin fever, exhaustion, no breaks, and boredom are starting to reach a critical mass. We are extremely fortunate that ... Read More about 106 Quarantine Activities for Toddlers and Young Kids
How to Move During a Global Pandemic ?
Well, this is a little off topic, isn't it? For those who don't follow me on Instagram, here is the background on this post: after selling our condo in December 2018, we have been on the house hunt for about a year. We found our house at the end of last year, but didn't plan to move in until the end of March. You know, right when the world was turned upside down by Coronavirus, and Illinois was under a shelter in place order? Yeah. That was fun. But, we pulled it ... Read More about How to Move During a Global Pandemic ?
How to Freeze Kale
Freezing vegetables is one of the easiest ways to reduce food waste, stretch your grocery bill, and save time. If you’re wondering how to freeze kale (or similar leafy greens like swiss chard, collard greens, or spinach), this post will teach you how, in just a few easy steps. Well, what a year the first two weeks of 2020 have been. If you follow me on Instagram, you know we’ve been dealing with quite a few toddler sleep issues the past several weeks. I’ve gotten dozens of ... Read More about How to Freeze Kale
Paleo Gluten Free Shortbread Cookies
With the holiday season upon us, these paleo and gluten free shortbread cookies make the perfect treat to top your cookie platter. Made with an almond and cassava flour blend and sweetened with maple sugar, these cookies contain a distinct buttery taste We’re mere days from Christmas and hours from Hanukkah (jaw drop), which means the holiday baking frenzy is completely underway at my house. In the past month, I tweaked a snickerdoodle recipe from the archives, perfected ... Read More about Paleo Gluten Free Shortbread Cookies
18 Gluten Free Christmas Cookies and Other Cookie Tray Favorites
This list of gluten free Christmas cookies (plus a few holiday-friendly cookie-alternatives) will please everyone on your list! From classics to surprise new favorites, they are all quick and easy to whip up and pure joy to devour! If your first thought upon seeing this post was that it is too late for holiday cookies, then you have it much (much!) more together than I do. Between the normal holiday rush and the unusually short turnaround time between Thanksgiving and Hanukkah/Christmas ... Read More about 18 Gluten Free Christmas Cookies and Other Cookie Tray Favorites
Thick & Chewy Paleo Gluten Free Snickerdoodles
This simple and family-friendly holiday classic is back! Just like the childhood classic you remember, these paleo and gluten free snickerdoodles are sweet, chewy, and utterly irresistible! This post was updated 12/11/19. This is a new version of a recipe I posted decades ago, or at least what feels like it, but was actually only, strangely, just over five years ago. Five years, in and of itself, isn't the strange part. It's what has happened in such a relatively short amount of ... Read More about Thick & Chewy Paleo Gluten Free Snickerdoodles
Gluten Free Skillet Cornbread
My all-time favorite Thanksgiving side dish is back, hold the gluten! This gluten free cornbread tastes just like you remember, but it's gluten free, dairy-free adaptable, and naturally sweetened. Plus, it's fast enough to whip up a batch Thanksgiving morning! I don't think that classic gluten free cornbread needs any introduction. We're 24 hours out from Thanksgiving, and everyone is scrambling to prep their menus, set their tables, and figure out a way to deflect that one ... Read More about Gluten Free Skillet Cornbread
Paleo & Gluten Free Apple Galette
Loosely translated, "galette" means "literally easier than pie" (ok VERY loosely translated), and that's just what this apple pastry is: a batch of pie crust is rolled out into a large disc, but instead of fussing with the pie plate, long cook time, and dreaded double crust, you simply turn out apple filling onto the crust, fold up the edges, and pop it in the oven. It impresses like pie with a fraction of the work! This fall, I found myself buried in apples. I’m talking up to my ... Read More about Paleo & Gluten Free Apple Galette
How to Freeze Potatoes – Plus, 5 Ways to Use Frozen Potatoes
Freezing potatoes in advance is an easy way to cut down on the holiday meal prep. When you’re ready to serve them, simply fry, boil, or microwave them until fork tender — without any need to thaw them. You’ll have mashed potatoes, french fries, or crispy roasted potatoes on the table in minutes. It snowed here, twice in the last 3 weeks, and I’m really not okay with it. Don’t get me wrong; I think snow is pretty, and my kid finds it delightful. But to have snow so early ... Read More about How to Freeze Potatoes – Plus, 5 Ways to Use Frozen Potatoes
Paleo & Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze
It's not fall without a perfect loaf of paleo & gluten free pumpkin bread! This naturally-sweetened version is ready in an hour or less! Fall is easily the most toddler-friendly time of year. No one can convince me otherwise. Or, maybe it's just the time of the year when I love having a toddler most. Summer's not bad, but apple picking? Pumpkin carving? Trick of treating? Tiny puffy vests? Forget it. Plus, I finally have a baking assistant and willing taste tester ... Read More about Paleo & Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze
Gluten Free Monster Cookies
These hearty, chewy, and fun gluten free oatmeal chocolate chip cookies contain festive sprinkles and are topped with candy eyes for a literal monster of a surprise! They're gluten free, dairy free, and nut free, which makes them a perfect Halloween treat to share with your child's classroom. On the heels of the last cookie post comes a Halloween-centric adaptation that has been about a year in the making. Let me back up. Last year, I was invited to my son’s school to help the ... Read More about Gluten Free Monster Cookies
What It’s Really Like to Work for a Remote Company
Whether you aspire to be a blogger, a freelancer, or an employee of a remote company, working from home can seem like the sweetest deal ever. No commuting, no rushing out the door every day, no boss looking over your shoulder, and you can work in your PJs. I work remotely, and can attest to the fact that, while all of these things are true, they're not the whole truth about what it's like to work remotely, which is to say at home, alone, all the time. Every time I post about my remote ... Read More about What It’s Really Like to Work for a Remote Company
Gluten Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Grab a glass of milk because the classic oatmeal cookie has gotten a makeover! This gluten free oatmeal cookie is simple to make, contains gluten free whole grain flour, and is naturally sweetened. Plus, it's full of chocolate. What's not to love? You can keep your fluffy, cakey pumpkin cookies because, if you ask me, no cookie says fall better than an oatmeal cookie. Especially if you add chocolate. Is that crazy? Is an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie a year-round delicacy? Yeah, ... Read More about Gluten Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Grain Free & Gluten Free Pie Crust
It's Pie Season! Do yourself a favor and bookmark this perfectly flaky grain- and gluten free pie crust recipe and you'll be set for the holidays and beyond! I'm hooked on the basics. That is to say, I've recently become (more) obsessed with perfecting gluten- and grain-free dessert staples so that you can always find what you need to make the end of your meal everything you wanted and more. One major blind spot on this site (and in my life) has always been pie. A long, ... Read More about Grain Free & Gluten Free Pie Crust
6 Ways That Your Day Job is Actually an Asset to Your Blog
I get so many questions about how to build a blog while holding a full time job. While it is certainly a difficult balance, there are a lot of benefits to having a full time job while growing your blog, and this post breaks it down! I get it about once a week: someone heard me on a podcast, or read one of my business posts, or saw me talk about my day job on Instagram and sends me a message that is some variation on either: "I am so frustrated. I feel like my day job ... Read More about 6 Ways That Your Day Job is Actually an Asset to Your Blog
How to Freeze Broccoli: A Step-By-Step Guide to Preserving Your Extra Veggies
One of the easiest ways to save money and reduce food waste is to turn to your freezer! If you're followed me for awhile, you know that I freeze nearly everything, so "making" my own frozen vegetables should be no surprise. This post will teach you how to freeze broccoli, with just a few brief steps! The busier life gets, the easier it is to let healthy eating slip. I get it — trust me, I get it. It’s such a slippery of a slope, which I've fallen down more than I'd like to admit ... Read More about How to Freeze Broccoli: A Step-By-Step Guide to Preserving Your Extra Veggies