Last updated on June 30th, 2020 Strawberries sub in for tomatoes in this classic summery salad. The sweetness of strawberries shines when paired with mozzarella, basil, and balsamic. Make this strawberry walnut salad filling enough for a main dish with wild rice, arugula, and toasted walnuts, or sub in your favorite grain, green, and nut!…
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Gluten-Free Cassava Flour Tortillas
Last updated on May 11th, 2020 Soft and flavorful gluten-free cassava tortillas that taste like regular flour tortillas! They’re tender, chewy, and flaky. Adapt with your fat of choice to make them paleo or vegan, and make them ahead to keep on hand in the freezer or fridge! When we got married, Lucas fondly told…
Arugula Apple Salad with Roasted Shallot Vinaigrette
This arugula apple salad is hearty enough to serve as a main dish or a side! Topped with a roasted shallot & garlic vinaigrette, pancetta, wild rice, and goat cheese, this arugula salad is exciting in every bite! This post is sponsored by Safeway, a year-long partner of Snixy Kitchen Last week, I piled up a…
Vegan Gluten-Free Stuffing with Mushrooms and Pears
Last updated on November 27th, 2019 A vegan gluten-free stuffing so flavorful, no one will believe it’s vegan! Packed with mushrooms, pears, leeks, and topped with crunchy seeds, this hearty and filling stuffing is the perfect addition to your holiday table! This post is sponsored by Little Northern Bakehouse, a long-term partner of Snixy Kitchen I’m…
Summer Fruit Salad with Herbed Pistachio Crumble
Last updated on June 7th, 2019 Take your summer fruit salad from basic to gourmet with herbed pistachio crumble and creamy burrata. Add lime, olive oil, and chopped roasted Wonderful Pistachios, Lightly Salted mixed with fresh tarragon, basil, and flaky salt. This cantaloupe, stone fruit, and mango fruit salad is deceptively easy to whip up! …
Pistachio-Crusted Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Pistachio Cream Sauce
This pistachio-crusted whole roasted cauliflower is so easy to make it’s deceptively gourmet! Drizzled with parsley pistachio cream sauce, this loaded cauliflower is perfect as a vegetarian main dish show stopper or a weeknight side dish. I’ve had visions of this pistachio-crusted whole roasted cauliflower since our trip to Paris a year ago. I fell…
Five-Minute Arugula Fig Salad
Last updated on January 10th, 2019 The simplest five-minute arugula salad recipe with figs and toasted almonds. Easy enough for weeknights and festive enough for the holiday table, this back-pocket arugula salad recipe hardly needs a recipe! If you ask my toddler what goes in a salad, she’ll no doubt say figs. That’s because this…
Maple Roasted Carrots with Walnuts & Feta
Last updated on March 26th, 2019 These maple roasted carrots are tossed in smoked paprika and maple syrup before roasting then sprinkled with walnuts and feta for serving. Use small rainbow carrots or even medium to large orange carrots to whip up this easy fall side dish! Until recently, carrots have been a highly underrated…
Baked gluten-free mac and cheese with cauliflower
Last updated on August 2nd, 2019 This is the BEST Baked Gluten-Free Mac and Cheese. Plus, this easy gluten-free mac and cheese comes together so quickly! Toss everything together in a big bowl, dump into a baking pan, & bake until crispy on top. Plus you can easily hide seasonal veggies in it – from…
Double Kale Salad with Creamy Pistachio Dressing
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 An addicting double kale salad to rule all kale salads: tender curly kale leaves massaged with creamy pistachio dressing topped with crispy roasted kale chips. Roasted salted notes and a slightly sweet creamy dressing, this salad is anything but standard. The world needs another recipe for kale salad right…
Wine Braised Artichokes with Cashew Mandarin Tarragon Aioli
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 If I had to eat one vegetable for the rest of my life, it would be artichokes. No hesitation. Over the next year, I’m partnering with Safeway for a Farm to Fork blogger tour to learn about their specialty Northern California based vendors, and when they told me our…
Cheesy Pumpkin Taquitos with Roasted Jalapeño Pepita Crema
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 These cheesy pumpkin taquitos are the perfect vegetarian dish for your holiday spread or weeknight dinner. Topped with a roasted jalapeño crema and toasted pepitas, it’s like a cross between enchiladas and taquitos with fall flavors. It’s officially pumpkin season. Usually I grab a can of purée if I’m…
Cucumber Lentil Salad with Feta
Last updated on July 8th, 2019 Rich French lentils get cooked with aromas and tossed into a chilled cucumber lentil salad with chopped parsley, high-quality olive oil, and lime juice with creamy feta crumbled over top. The perfect potluck salad, side dish for a barbecue, or make-ahead weekday lunch. Whenever I’ve got an all-day shoot…
Crispy Barbecue Beans
Last updated on June 29th, 2020 Pairing smoky crispy barbecue beans with a glass of Zinfandel – an utterly addictive snack for your summer gatherings in partnership with LangeTwins Family Winery & Vineyard. I was told that LangeTwins has a wine for everybody. Good, I thought, I’ll stick to the white. But nothing is ever that…
Maple Harissa Sweet Potato Gratin
Last updated on June 29th, 2020 I keep meeting people who insist they don’t really like sweet potatoes. And by people, I mean my husband. This maple harissa sweet potato gratin topped with almond dukkah is for all those bah humbug naysayers. Here, the sweetness from red garnet “yams” is subdued with hot chili pepper paste (harissa) and topped…
Harissa Snap Peas with Cashew Hummus & Sunflower Seed Za’atar + New Mama Reflections
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 On our first evening away from our new babe, we snuck off to Gather to celebrate my birthday just the two of us and ordered way too much food – as though it’d been over a month since we’d eaten dinner at the same time (it had). We spoke a love…
Za’atar Roasted Carrots & Cauliflower over Salted Yogurt
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 I dedicate these za’atar roasted carrots & cauliflower to our cats. Have you ever crossed paths with a hungry cat? An empty bowl can signal that they might never ever EVER get food again, so they must HOWL at their human to communicate the dire situation. My mom’s cat Otis used to…
Seeded Cheddar Brazilian Cheese Bread
Last updated on June 30th, 2020 Do you love cheese as much as I do? Did you wake up at 3am to make nachos the other night too? No? Just me then? Hm. Anytime you want to stop by at 3am to wake me up for a nacho-fest, I’m totally in. I know I’m supposed to be…
Roasted Beet Salad with Crispy Shallots & Tarragon-Basil Infused Olive Oil
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 I need to learn to reign in my inner cat lady around non-cat people (Mental note – why am I hanging out with non-cat people?). When people pull out their phones to show off their kids, I match photo-for-photo of my cats. This is how I weed people out. Then I…
Sesame Ginger Miso Cucumber Salad
Last updated on July 7th, 2020 Remember that time we ate salad and I promised you more salads this year? Yeah, me neither. We’ve had five desserts since the last time we chomped down a salad together, but since every good summer BBQ should be made up of equal parts vegetables and ice cream, I’m sharing this super…
Little Gem Spring Salad with Toasted Seeds & Herbed Goat Cheese
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 When my brother was a kid, he convinced my aunt that he was allergic to “green stuff”…aka salad. But he most definitely said “green stuff” which should have been a big red flag that he was full of crap. I’m not sure what’s more unbelievable: the fact that my aunt bought…
Fava Bean Soup with Lemon Crème Fraîche & Thyme Olive Oil
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 I recently read recipe development instructions that stated: “should not include ingredients that are too obscure or aren’t available for the average cook, such as cumin.” Cumin! In a pinch, I’m pretty sure I’ve picked up cumin at 7-11 or the drugstore at midnight (sometimes you need tacos, guys). Living in California with a…
Black Sesame and Wild Rice Crackers {Gluten-free}
Last updated on May 11th, 2019 I made a cup of rice in the rice cooker a few nights back and forgot about it. Overnight! As in, I didn’t eat any of it and it wasn’t until the next morning that I remembered I’d put rice in the cooker. I started the rice, then planned to…
Parmesan Steamed Egg Custard with Asparagus and Peas
Last updated on July 6th, 2020 Eggs are one of the only staples we keep on hand in our fridge. Well, that and cheese. With our ever-rotating drawer of fresh vegetables, we’ve got everything on hand to make these speedy parmesan steamed egg custards at all times. If the apocalypse comes and we get trapped in…
