Lately I've been feeling like a muffin manda. Maybe it's the fact that it's warm and summer and berry season, or maybe it's my undying love of breakfast foods (aka breakfast breads), but I have been trying every muffin under the sun. Until now. I've finally filled the muffin recipe void in my life.
Read moreFluffy Cornbread Pancakes with Strawberry Jam (Vegan and Gluten Free)
I somewhat weirdly equate spring with.... pancakes. Nope, not flowers, not sunshine, but pancakes. These cornbread pancakes, topped with easy, fresh, three-ingredient strawberry jam, are SO freaking good -- and, not to mention, vegan and gluten free. Yep, my kind of spring recipe.
Read more4 Ingredient Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies
I ate 30 cookies last night and I lived to tell the tale. What's makes these cookies all the better is the fact that the recipe is (A) really easy to make [4 ingredients and 10 minutes, what up] and (B) really tasty. I also made these at the perfect time, because that whole mecury-being-in-retrograde thing is wrecking havoc in the most mellow-dramatic way possible.
Read moreHealthy Flourless Chocolate Fudge Cake (Grain Free, Dairy Free, High Protein)
So once I decided to make this cake for my boyfriends parents. And then I ate half the cake by myself. HALF. Half. It's really that good, and it's really not that bad for you!
Read moreWhy You Should Be Drinking Loose Leaf Tea (and 5 Tips For Making The Perfect Cup)
Tea is awesome. Tea tastes good, it's good for your body, and it's just goood for your soul. The world of loose leaf tea is both magical and daunting: it leaves a lot more room for error, but if you do it right, it's the bomb. There are a lot reasons why you should make the jump to loose leaf tea.
Read moreVegan Thai Salad with Spicy Cashew Dressing
Once upon a time I didn't have an Instagram. It was a simple world of image-less bliss, but an uninspiring one. And then last December, I made an account (@platektonics, whatup), I became a food porn obsessor, and lived happily ever after. The end. Except not the end-- the beginning.
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