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MINT CHOCOLATE GREEN MILK (VEGAN HEMP MILK).

This super quick, nutrient dense vegan mint chocolate hemp milk has quickly become a daily staple—it’s light, creamy, frothy, delicious, and full of plant-based protein. And mega green, from my favorite spirulina powder. The genius thing about making your own…
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DESSERT BREAD BOARD WITH TRIO OF DIPS: CHOCOLATE LAVENDER, MATCHA JASMINE & HONEY ROSE CASHEW.

This post was created in partnership with La Brea Bakery. All opinions are my own, including my obsession with the single origin heirloom wheat used in their new artisan breads, sourced from a farm in Big Sky Country, Montana. New…
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BLOOD ORANGE BLOSSOM FUDGE BROWNIES.

I can’t remember the last time I had a valentine on Valentine’s Day. The holiday and all of its attendant bustle around romance, and the capitalization thereof, make me a bit queasy. My desire for love is a constant thrum…
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ROSEWATER BROWNIES WITH CARDAMOM TAHINI FROSTING + A COOKBOOK PREVIEW.

There’s a truism attributed to Joseph Campbell, though no-one has ever found a specific source in his work for it: We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. You’ve probably…
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DARK CHOCOLATE MENDIANTS TWO WAYS: LAVENDER, WALNUT & HONEYCOMB + ROSE, PISTACHIO & CACAO NIB.

This post was created in partnership with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker. All opinions are my own. GIVEAWAY: SCROLL DOWN TO ENTER! I’ve written a lot about holiday traditions—and lack thereof—in the previous weeks. I’ve written about creating rituals that sustain…
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TRIPLE MEXICAN CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES (VEGAN).

This post was created in partnership with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker to celebrate National Chocolate Day! All opinions are my own. I’m a total Halloween failure. I nailed it as a kid: Pippy Longstockings (with the red hair, I was a shoe-in), a…
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TART CHERRY, CHOCOLATE & HEMPSEED NO-BAKE OAT BARS FROM ALTERNATIVE BAKER.

For a long while, I felt like life was mostly endings. Deaths and sicknesses and hearts broken. My mother diagnosed with cancer in the same stroke as a relationship ended. Everything felt heavy. My words were heavy. My limbs moved…
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SALTED TAHINI BANANA STRACCIATELLA ICE CREAM.

I’ve always loved surprises, though I don’t think I’ve ever told this to anyone. It’s a little secret I’ve held between my ribcage and my lungs and my heart. The idea of someone going to considerable effort to surprise me…
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PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK BARS WITH SALTED CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE.

For a day and a night, the wind moved like it had to blow to keep the earth turning. It was not particularly cold or warm, not a sultry Santa Ana or whatever other sexily named wind that blows in…
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SUPER GREEN MATCHA CACAO TRUFFLES.

I cry on planes. Every time I leave a place that has changed me. When I forgot my laptop at the security checkpoint of LAX. Over completely non-emotional reruns of CHOPPED. When I start regurgitating my litany of past loves…
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VEGAN PEANUT BUTTER BANANA OREO PARFAITS.

Hi you. So much happened this weekend!!! Namely Beyoncé unleashing the full force of FORMATION on the planet and slaying at the Super Bowl and announcing her world tour. But aside from Yoncé dominating—as she is wont to do—I made…
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SPICED CARAMEL CHOCOLATE NUT CLUSTERS!

Food can be many things: It can be, simply, sustenance, or, more whimsically, it can be art, or, more urgently, it can be medicine. Food can be tenderness and care and attention. It can be utter play and abandon. It…
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