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Allyson Kramer’s Pumpkin Chickpea Chili and a Giveaway!

Photo by Allyson Kramer

I’m sure you’re busy getting ready for the holidays next week. I want to give you a wonderful recipe that’s easy enough to make tonight and you can eat on it until Christmas.

Allyson Kramer’s Pumpkin Chickpea Chili fromGreat Gluten-Free Vegan Eatsis filled with some of my favorite ingredients. Don’t have time to go shopping? Check your pantry because you might have everything you need already.

The next time you get fresh cilantro here’s a way to save what you don’t use up...

So Delicious Gingerbread Cookie Coconut Shake

It’s really starting to feel like the holidays. Bright red berries are popping up on the holly bushes around my house and my Christmas cactus is booming. That makes me get a taste for some traditional flavors – even if they are served in not-so-traditionalforms.

This thick shake made with ground up ginger cookies and vanilla coconut milk ice “cream” makes a great dessert or just a treat to make before you watch Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the umpteenth time.

Happy holidays!

So Delicious Gi...

New Recipes on the Weiser Kitchen

I’m really enjoying my new column at The Weiser Kitchen. This month I have some comfort food for you and a cookie that’s perfect for a holiday cookie exchange!

My recipe forQuinoa-Flax Noodlesuses Roland Foods Quinoa Flour. They are gluten-free and full of flax seed too. Plus they are much easier to make than you think.

Once you have a batch of handmade noodles on hand I have a warming Winter Garden Quinoa-Flax Noodle Soupwith mushrooms, rutabagas flavored with dill and caraway.

A fewCrispy Citr...

My Review of Julie Hasson’s Vegan Pizza

I love Julie Hasson’s new book, Vegan Pizza. In fact I contacted her pr person to get a review copy and since it arrived we’ve been having pizza in our house every week – sometimes even twice. I think you’ll love the recipes she’s letting me share here and make sure to scroll to the end and enter to win a copy for yourself!

HerEasy-Peasy Pizza Dough really lives up to its name. I like to use the variation where you only use 1/2 teaspoon yeast and can rise up to 18 hours. I make it before I go...

Pear and Apple Cardamom Ginger Muffins

Muffins are a great way to use up bits and pieces of fruit. Heck, even if you don’t have any fresh fruit at all you can add in nuts and dried fruit instead.

Plus there’s not an easier breakfast than grabbing a muffin on your way out of the door. Make these on a Sunday night and you have breakfast taken care of all week! Plus muffins are the perfect way to use up the leftover fruit in your fruit bowl.

I love the way muffins come together in minutes and can feed you breakfast, or even dessert, al...

Pumpkin Coconut Caramel Sauce

Happy December! It’s gotten really chilly here in North Carolina and even though it’s warming up during the day it makes me want to snuggle up in bed a little longer. Plus I can’t get enough hot tea or coffee. Even Max, one of our dogs, is sneaking closer and closer to the fireplace to insure he’s toasty warm. (Don’t worry – he’s not so close he could get burned!)

I hope you’ll join me in a steaming pumpkin spice latte. Today’s recipe blends some of the best flavors of fall into a rich sauce t...

Easy Thanksgiving Dinner for Two

Photo by Kate Lewis

This year I have so much to be thankful for. I have the best friends and readers that anyone can have, a new spouse and I’m working on book number four. I want to let each of you know how thankful I am that you read my blog and include my recipes into your family’s dinner.

Having a dinner with no leftovers means not spending as much time or money to get it on the table. It simply couldn’t be easier and you make it in your little slow cooker.

In this all in one dinner there is...

Chipotle-Citrus Tofu and Broccoli from One-Dish Vegan and a Giveaway

Robin Robertson has another new awesome book out and more on the way in 2014. This time it’s 150 easy recipes that make delicious one dish meals. It’s filled with soups, stews, pasta, casseroles and more. It’s the perfect book to settle in for the winter with – that’s when I get all domestic. Plus it’s nice to keep the stove and oven on to keep the house cozy.

She’s letting me share her recipe for Chipotle-Citrus Tofu And Broccoli with you here – enjoy! Be sure to enter the giveaway at the bot...

Food Blog South 2014

I know many of my readers are also food bloggers so I wanted to share info about one of my favorite conferences, FoodBlogSouth. Clicking through the link will give you a $10 discount!

This year the conference is all day January 25 with an opening party the night before. There are 3 tracks:Track A, Creativity; Track B, Technology & Business; and Track C, Food. Attendees can go back and forth between tracks; you don’t have to stick to one. The conference is $175 for the pre and after event as we...

Ricki Heller’s Macaroon Recipe and a Giveaway

Ricki Heller’s new book,Naturally Sweet & Gluten-Freeis wonderful and I’ve recommended to many of my friends. It has so many recipes that everyone can eat if they have allergies or not. I’m lucky because Ricki is letting me share another of her recipes from the book with you. Make sure to enter the giveaway at the bottom of the post to get a chance to win a copy of this book for your very own!

I am not a fan of tahini in baked goods even though I’ve tried. So in these macaroons I used 2 tables...