Fall is in the air, and these slow cooked caramel apples are just the thing to waft buttery cinnamon goodness through your house and get you in the mood for autumn. While I am a self-confessed summertime gal, this season holds a special place in my heart. Back in Pennsylvania as a kid, the air
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Summer Fruit Salad with Balsamic Mint Glaze
August will always hold a special place in my heart as the ripest, richest part of summer. Back east, the peaches, tomatoes, and corn were other-worldly good, the Atlantic ocean was warm, and the mood was carpe diem. I’m sure there are plenty of good reasons, but I’m not a fan of school starting before labor
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Orange Dreamsicles For Popsicle Season
As per usual in Southern California, the weather is pleasantly warm, but not seethingly hot, by any stretch of the imagination. Yet it is popsicle season, and my kids have popsicle fever. Every day, multiple times per day, I am asked, “WHEN are we going to make more popsicles???” Then when the popsicles have just been
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Almond Boy: Bid Your Sugar Cravings Buh-Bye
My friend Molly from OrganicSpark.com recently released her new book, Back to Butter. It is a treat to flip through the pages rich with beautiful images and mouth-watering recipes. When I got to the dessert section, this one really caught my eye: almond boy. A play on words, almond boy is reminiscent of the sticky sweet
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Strawberry Cream Gummies Recipe
In the little town where I grew up, we had an old-school corner store called Krex’s (“Krex-zies”) that sold all of the typical stuff – magazines, cigarettes, and lots and lots of candy. I have a visceral memory of that little shop, especially when I think of the glass counter filled with Swedish fish, pop
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Grandma’s Blueberry Muffins
Whenever I think of grandma’s blueberry muffins, I get the warm and fuzzies. During the hot and humid Pennsylvania summers we used to spend a day picking blueberries, filling huge buckets with tiny berries while eating probably just as many. We’d come home happy with inky fingers, and my mom would freeze bags and bags of
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Chocolate Whoopie Pies With (Honey-Sweetened!) Raspberry Buttercream Filling
Here are two facts: 1) Holistic Squid will never be a site devoted to baked goods. 2) If you find a sweet treat here, it’s because it’s really, really good. I don’t know how bakers do it. I nearly killed myself perfecting these chocolate whoopie pies – or more specifically, the honey-sweetened raspberry buttercream filling.
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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies With Maple Cream Cheese Filling
Today I’m sharing these fun pumpkin whoopie pies with maple cream cheese frosting – a grown-up version of my favorite childhood baked good. As you may know, my baking skills are less than expert, so luckily this recipe is super easy and pretty fail-proof. The whoopie pie (also know as a ‘gob’) is a Pennsylvania Dutch
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Brown Butter Sage Marshmallows (The Perfect Sweet Potato Casserole Topper!)
I’m not one for fussy food, but sometimes holidays call for elaborate and fun surprises. That’s why I was so thrilled to find these brown butter sage marshmallows from BraveTart in planning this year’s thanksgiving menu. The original recipe calls for corn syrup, but I knew from past experiments that both honey and maple syrup make
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Homemade Caramel Apples from Scratch
Growing up in the Pennsylvania, there were certain things that made fall fall – sweater weather, bon fires, hot cocoa, technicolor leaves, hay rides, and everything apple and pumpkin. While autumn cues aren’t quite the same here in Southern California, there’s no reason not to indulge in a treats like homemade caramel apples while walking
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Rosemary Fig Jam Recipe
Figs are one of those darkly erotic foods that are at once intimidating and irresistible. Cut one open and its insides are surprisingly intimate. Truth be told, while I adore their beauty, I’ve never really cared for eating figs until I discovered this rosemary fig jam. My weekly farm box quietly demands that my family
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Pina Colada Ice Cream
I don’t mind admitting we sometimes have ice cream for breakfast at my house and feel not a drop of guilt. Just look at these ingredients (sans the optional rum, y’all!). Pina Colada ice cream is a wonderful, nutrient-dense treat. I love the cool, smooth cream coupled with the chewy, golden chunks of pineapple. It
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