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Oatmeal Cookie Butter Sweetened with Raisins

I’m not sure I can be any more excited. OATrageous Oatmealsfinallycomes out today and if you pre-ordered it maybe it’salready waiting for you athome!

Today’sdreamy oatmeal recipe is actually not from the book. I’ve found when I do a single subject cookbook that it’s hard to snap out of it. My mind keeps thinking of new ideas. With the popularity of cookie butter and the diy nut butter craze how could I not throw oat’s hat in the ring?

This is basically a walnut butter that gets cut with oats, s...

Savory Granolas from OATrageous Oatmeals

OATrageous Oatmealsreleases tomorrowand I am so excited! If you’ve pre-ordered, be sure to emailyour pre-order receipt tooatrageousoatmeals@gmail.comtoday. There are still some of the pre-order packages available.Your receipt should have your mailing address on it, but if you ordered the ebook you’ll need to include it in your email.

If you orderOATrageous Oatmealstoday it will still count, so there’s still time to get a great OATrageous surprise in the mail!

It finally feels like fall here in...

Maple Spiced Hot Toddy – Perfect for Fall!

I have to warn you that there is somegratuitous tablewarein this post. I am drawn tosteampunk things and that means lots of octopi (Octopuses?) and Krakens, not to mention gogglesand crafty things.

I got these dishes at Anthropologielast year. While they aren’t exactly for day to day use, I immediately fell in love with them. My favorite part about the cup is the octopus suckers on the handle.

Okay, enough about my dish fetish and on to the real reason you’re here – a new recipe. This one is fo...

Cara’s Chocolate Sandwich Cookie “Oreos”

Photo by Celine Steen

I’m sure you’ve already heard about Cara Reed’s first book, Decadent Gluten-free Vegan Baking.I love her blog, Fork and Beans, and if you haven’t been there you have to take a look and be sure to sign up to get her posts right in your inbox.

I know someof you are on gluten-free diets. I can’t think of many people who don’t know at least one personwho has celiac or is gluten-intolerant. Any kind of food allergy isparticularly hard on children. I can’t imagine being 6 years...

Make Your Own Coffee Concentrate

I realized I’ve been teasing you with all kinds of coffee drinks, but I haven’t shown you how to make your own coffee concentrate yet. Sorry about that! It’s so easy to do that I forget that it’s not common knowledge.

I first had coffee concentrate when I lived in New Orleans and you could even buy it at the grocery store. That was years ago and now artisanal coffee concentrate is available at Whole Foods in the refrigerated section. While it’s cheaper than going out for a fancy coffee drinks,...

Vegan Butterscotch Syrup

It’s 10 days until OATrageous Oatmealsreleased and I am so excited! If you’ve pre-ordered my new book, be sure to emailyour pre-order receipt tooatrageousoatmeals@gmail.combeforeSeptember 16. There are still openings to be in the first 100.Your receipt should have your mailing address on it, but if you ordered the ebook you’ll need to include it in your email.

I have been on a search for a good vegan butterscotch syrup. I love a thick caramel sauce, but to meet one of my goals this month I nee...

Vegan Chocolate Sauce made with Chocolate Stout

Another day, another syrup/sauce for Vegan Mofo! Today I have a thick, rich chocolate syrup for you. It has a base of chocolate stout beer with a little full fat coconut milk and sweetened with coconut sugar. It’s not exactly on the good-for-you list, but you’ll only use a tablespoon or 2 per iced mocha.

Looking for a fat-free and sugar-free chocolate syrup? You can get my Guilt-free Stevia Chocolate Syrup here.

On a side note, did you already pre-order OATrageous? If you haven’t sent in your p...

DIY Fresh Blackberry Syrup

There was a drink I used to getat Starbuck’s that’s long since discontinued. It was ablackberry green tea frappuccinoandI really liked it.

Over the years I tried to buy a pre-made berry syrupI liked. Icouldn’t find blackberry one so I tried a bunch of raspberry ones that I hated. Today I thought I’d give making it myselfa go myself and the results are really tasty. It eventastes like real blackberries – imagine that!

This syrup would be good in iced black or green tea. I’m thinking of a blackbe...

A Lavender Coffee Syrup for Vegan Mofo 2014!

Happy Vegan Mofo everyone! That’s month of food to those of you who are experiencing your first one. It’s a whole month of vegan goodness where hundreds of vegan bloggers from all over the world come together and post vegan recipes all month long.

Ipromise todo my best to bring you some fun recipes all month long.Some bloggershave a theme for the month. I have gone back and forth on toomany ideas. All I can say for certain is this week it’s all about vegan coffee shop drinks that you make at h...

Making You a Priority: Exercise

I tend to overdo it with work. Promoting a new book while working on book 5, doing recipe development and social media pr – my to-do list only seems to get longer. There are more days than I want to admit where I work from when I get up in the morning until I go to bed at night.

My goal forSeptember is to add in some time everyday to move my body and release some of my stress. I’m looking into a few ways to fit in some me time everyday.I’m going to share a few of my findswith you the next few...