A recipe for easy energy bars packed with chia seeds, dried tart cherries, dark chocolate, nut butters, and oats for a quick snack to keep you going. Each morning begins the same. Pushing back the down comforter that radiates warmth, I face the cold winter light and slip … [Read more...] about Dark Chocolate Cherry and Chia Energy Bars
Recipes
Thai Green Mango Salad
A crisp and refreshing Thai salad made with unripened (green) mango, mung bean sprouts, red pepper, and plenty of cilantro. The door opens inward, pushing against the rolled up towel that sits at the bottom attempting to block out the raw boreal wind that whips by on the … [Read more...] about Thai Green Mango Salad
Easy Thai Peanut Chicken Curry
A recipe for spicy and fragrant Thai peanut chicken curry with coconut milk and plenty of cilantro on top. The trailhead sits at the side of the road, burrowing deep into the woods that surround the lake. Just a few steps in and the world changes: the snow absorbs sound and … [Read more...] about Easy Thai Peanut Chicken Curry
Vanilla Raspberry Mini Meringue Kisses
A recipe for crisp little vanilla raspberry meringues made into mini star-shaped kisses. Life is messy, made exponentially more so by children. Today one child stepped on a wayward grain of rice from packing lunch boxes, grinding it beneath his small heel straight into my … [Read more...] about Vanilla Raspberry Mini Meringue Kisses
Orange and Black Tea Olive Oil Shortbread Cookies
A recipe for rich, olive oil shortbread cookies flavored with black tea and orange zest, rolled in sugar or with an orange glaze drizzled over the top. I cleared and wiped down the counter for the seventh time since waking up that morning, rinsing the washcloth under the … [Read more...] about Orange and Black Tea Olive Oil Shortbread Cookies
