Tender pasta smothered in a creamy, garlicky avocado-kale pesto sauce … that’s this simple and delicious green pasta recipe. Also known as avocado pesto pasta, this pasta in green sauce is easy and fast to make – 7 ingredients and 20 minutes to make – and it’s perfect for easy lunches and dinners. Quick, put down the green food coloring! With all the amazing naturally green foodstuffs out there, there’s no need for that stuff, nuh uh. If you’re looking for pasta in green sauce, this Creamy Avocado Kale Pasta is about as green as green can get. Table of Contents About This Green Pasta Recipe ..read more

With a creamy, curry-spiced sauce and so much tomato goodness, Chickpea and Tomato Curry is one of my favorite dinner recipes lately! It comes together super quickly – in less than 30 minutes – on the stovetop, and chickpea tomato curry leftovers make basically the best leftovers in the history of leftovers. Table of Contents The Story Behind the Recipe Chickpea & Tomato Curry Ingredients How to Make It What to Serve with Chickpea & Tomato Curry More Favorite Curry Recipes Jump to the full, printable recipe Read reviews and comments The Story Behind the Recipe I’ve been making this ..read more

Thick, rich, creamy eggnog … I can just smell the nutmeg! This Dairy-Free Eggnog is a the decadent drink that every Christmas season needs. (It makes the most excellent coffee creamer, too!) Table of Contents The Story Behind the Recipe Dairy-Free Eggnog Ingredients How to Make It Frequently Asked Questions More Dairy Free Christmas Recipes Jump to full, printable recipe Reviews and comments The Story Behind the Recipe Growing up, we really weren’t an eggnog family. My first encounter with it was well into adulthood – in the form of an eggnog latte. That easily segued into the real stuff ..read more

This Lemon Thyme Vinaigrette is exactly the perk-up your salad needs! It’s so easy to whip up a batch whether you’re dressing a side salad for dinner or getting ready to feast on big ol’ salad-as-a-meal. I think this lemon vinaigrette dressing pairs perfectly with a chickpea-heavy green salad – something about the lemon, chickpeas, and thyme together is so delicious! It’s also amazing tossed with blanched asparagus.  Lemon Thyme Vinaigrette is a really light, refreshing dressing for spring and summer salads. But I love the citrus pop on wintertime salads too.  Ingredients for Lemon ..read more

What’s cozy, autumn-themed, and almost criminally easy to make? This Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal, that’s what. Squares of hearty baked oatmeal with vitamin-A-rich pumpkin, lightly spiced, and dotted with melty chocolate chips. I’d say this Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal is pretty much the perfect autumn (or Halloween!) breakfast. I haven’t been sharing a lot of pumpkin or squash related recipes here since I launched Kitchen Treaty’s new sister site a few months ago. It’s all going over there! The blog is called Good Gourds, and it’s all about summer squash, winter squash, and ..read more

What’s frosty, festive, and screams “IT’S THE HOLIDAYS!”? Sugared cranberries, that’s what! Luckily, sugared cranberries don’t literally scream, because that would be terrifying. Though now I admit I’m imagining a sugared cranberries x The Cranberries x Zombie situation and that’s … more than I should probably admit. But I digress. (more ..read more

Sparkling Sugared Rosemary adds a festive touch to your holidays; and it’s so easy to make! My kid thinks that frost is the most magical thing. Pre-parenting, I’d look out and think it just got really cold out there. But to her, everything down to the smallest blade of grass is sparkling, ethereal. And so now, I see it too. Like many things in life, she inspires me to see the magic in everyday things.  (more ..read more

Remember those soft-baked chocolate chip cookies you’d buy in the snack food aisle? Bendy, pliable, perfect for sinking your teeth into one. Or – ahem – seven. These almond flour chocolate chip cookies totally remind me of those. They’re melty, bendy little gems that satisfy your chocolate chip cookie craving while also being gluten-free, dairy-free, and surprisingly low in sugar and carbohydrates. Did you ever think that gluten free, dairy free chocolate chip cookies would look like this?! These Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies are a favorite around here. They truly taste melt-i ..read more

In the words of Staind, “It’s Been Awhile!” Yep, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted a One Dish Two Ways recipe (one recipe that can be made vegetarian/vegan AND meaty for multi-diet families). I guess that’s partially because I’ve been perfecting this one for like three months now. (One side benefit to having to make this over and over until it’s just right? Lots and lots of crispy baked gnocchi for dinner!) Crispy Sheet Pan Gnocchi with Veggies & Sausage hits all the right notes for me, not only because it’s delicious with a great balance of veggies, protein, carbs, and fat all on o ..read more

This warm and cozy stew is the best of many worlds. A riff on West African Peanut Soup, it has a tomato and peanut base like its inspiration, plus sweet potatoes, spinach, and (a must!) crunchy peanuts on top. Peanut butter, spinach, and sweet potato, you say? YES. It’s the MOST glorious combo – trust me. For us, West African Peanut Stew has been a definite dinner-on-repeat over the course of the winter. It has a relatively simple list of ingredients, so it’s an easy throw-together meal for weeknights. What do we have? Well, these ingredients, for one: Peanut butter, sweet potatoes, garlic ..read more