Discover the best recipe for a Vegan Skillet Apple Oat Crumb Cake! This easy, plant-based dessert is perfect for any occasion. Learn how to make a delicious, crumbly, and wholesome apple cake. Perfect for vegans and anyone looking for a healthy sweet treat. It feels good to be here in this … [Read more...]
Vegan Summer Fruit Tart with Lavender
This vegan summer fruit tart celebrates the peak season of stonefruit and berries with a hint of lavender in the filling. Soft juicy ripe apricots, nectarines, and blackberries are a wonderfully delicious combination but feel free to swap them out for other stone fruit or berries this … [Read more...]
Coconut Cream Chocolate Dip Popsicles | Vegan & Gluten Free
Cold creamy chocolate deliciousness to cool you down in this summer heat! Those famed cool island sea breezes seem to have blown far away lately. I can't keep enough of these pops in the freezer. They seem to vanish as soon as one batch is ready. Knock you self out and stock that ice box with … [Read more...]
Spicy Bread and Butter Pickles
We're big pickle eaters over here, and love a good stack of bread n' butter chips with our sammies. I developed this spicy version with dill because we like it spicy over here too! These are not super sweet and are sweetened with maple syrup. You can use sugar if you prefer. When the habaneros … [Read more...]
Creamy Pea Pesto | Vegan & Gluten Free
We harvested the last of the spring peas today! So we had to make something delicious with them... This creamy pea pesto sauce was a perfect finale. This pesto is protein packed with peas, hemp seeds and tofu. While we waited for the pasta to cook, we spread some pesto on bread and I have to say, … [Read more...]
Peas and Peaches Salad with Peach Fennel Vinaigrette
The pea teepee in our garden is prolific these days, loaded with long green pods bursting with the sweetest peas. Each day Iley makes his way to the teepee and pops a few pea pods off, carefully opening each green purse and removing each sweet pea one by one, popping them into his mouth. Iley's … [Read more...]
Hibiscus Lemon Ginger Water Kefir
I shared a recipe for our favorite summery water kefir flavor, hibiscus lemon ginger, on my wonderful friend Kirsten Rickert's journal today. Please click over to read the recipe and see more images. Kirsten's journal is filled with many beautiful creative holistic crafts, home-school lessons, … [Read more...]
Strawberry Icebox Pie | Vegan
Mister and I have made a summer resolution to rise extra early and get out of the house. Our first day of practicing this resolution was to go strawberry picking as soon as the farm opened up. There's only so much time left for these sweet summer babies. We froze some for smoothies, ate a whole … [Read more...]
Midsummer Lemon Poppy Cake With Summer Fruits
The strawberries are in! The strawberries are in! These ruby hued jewels have heralded the arrival of beloved summer on our island. Yesterday was the first day for pick-your-own strawberries at one of the island's farms and we promptly made our way to their organic fields for our first taste of … [Read more...]
Ode to Caesar | Vegan + Gluten Free
This past week I've been feeling a heaviness regarding a personal matter and I really just needed something light and green and happiness inducing. No, I'm not talking about those kind greens, I'm talking about a salad. A f***ing amazing bowl of beautiful green things. Hope you're with me on … [Read more...]
Lilac Raspberry Scones | Vegan
Lilac scones as promised! This whole week the lilacs have been in peak bloom and, I'm not gonna lie, it smells amazing around here. I kind of want to put these delightful blooms on everything and in everything. So I thought what better way than in scones. I've been craving a good scone and this was … [Read more...]
Lilac Flower Water
Try this simple and easy method to infuse edible lilac flowers into water for a refreshing floral drink or facial spray. I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree Leonard Cohen My love affair with flowers reaches well beyond the garden or vase and onto my plate. I love flowers for … [Read more...]
Vegan Spicy Noodle Bowls
So…. Memorial Day weekend is already upon us. {not ready-not ready-not ready} Nantucketers have a love/hate relationship with this weekend. It’s the first real shock of the summer for people who call this island home year-round. Our shores fill to the brim with an influx of thousands of visitors on … [Read more...]
