For over four years, I have been gifting Easton’s teachers with mason jars full of food that comes from our kitchen: cookies, marshmallows or chocolate bark*, usually. For the holidays, I give them proper presents, but for other occasions, like Easton’s last day in their class, Teacher Appreciation Day and Valentine’s Day, we bake. To…
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Banana Cardamom Chia Pudding with Homemade Coconut Milk
Today Reeve turns one, which feels both impossible and, also, haven’t we eaten dinner sitting across from her for years? Our 12 months together have been like this: moving so fast, too fast, but also, as if she’s always been with us. I spent so much time, leading up to her birth, fearful for the changes coming…
Corn & Sweet Potato Chowder (Dairy Free)
It was fall of 2010 and we had lived in our new home for six months. I had collected frames, printed pictures and was ready to hang. For some reason, I could not get three pictures – my attempt at making grape nuts, that didn’t work, but looked like perfectly rustic graham crackers; a pot…
Triple Coconut Bars
Before, kids, I spent a lot of time imagining my life with them. We would read books and eat Dim Sum on Christmas Day, snuggle up in the morning, in bed, and we would cook together, always. I didn’t know what I was talking about. Yes, we do all of those things, but none of them…
Homemade Coconut Extract
Lately, I’ve read about so many recipes calling for coconut extract. But, I’ve always tended to be skeptical of most extracts, besides vanilla and most that I’ve found in stores say things like Coconut Extract flavoring, or Coconut Extract, made with artificial and natural flavors. That never seems like a good idea. Even though recipes keep popping up that I’m…
Beet, Coconut & Molasses (Nut-Free) Granola
After Easton was born, I thought, amongst other things, that I would never cook again. I was overwhelmed by motherhood, missing myself and doubting that I would be able to pull this parenting thing off. Although I was exclusively nursing, and needed fuel, I could barely bring myself to eat. When Easton was 8 weeks old,…
Coconut Butter Chocolates
Before we get started, you can now Follow my blog with Bloglovin! In the first few weeks after giving birth to Reeve, I developed my own personal self-torture. In the middle of the night, while I was feeding her, I read food blogs, specifically baking blogs, to stay awake. It was 3am and I could barely keep my eyes…
Coconut Oil Blended Coffee
Years ago, I would have thought that cooking for our family meant, only that: cooking for everyone. But, I quickly learned that the best way for me to keep going, is to feel like sometimes things are just for me. I’ll be honest: this usually happens when I’m alone. It’s a rare day that I’m…