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Vegan Zucchini Crust Pizza

Vegan Zucchini Crust Pizza that’s gluten-free with no added oil. Add pizza sauce and your favorite toppings for plant-based pizza night!

How are you channel changing skills?

To be honest I’ve never been a big TV channel explorer.

I’m more of a “pick a show and binge-watch it then turn off the tube” kind of a consumer (like I did with The Handmaid’s Tale last night into the wee hours of the night!)

Dan, however, is notorious for channel surfing at a rate that makes my head spin.

(You can’t get too invested, folks, because it’s gone in approximately 2.5 seconds.)

The other day, per usual, he was flipping YouTube TV channels and we ended up watching a reel called “Your Daily Dose of Satisfaction”.

Curious, we continued to watch as the video skipped from clip to clip of action scenes.

Clay on a pottery wheel whirring, chopping veggies in clean cuts, paint filling a canvas with precise strokes.

“I guess watching these scenes is supposed to make us feel more satisfied,” Dan said.

And I’ve got to say, I did get a sort of weird charge from watching tasks get completed on the big screen even though I wasn’t the one doing the completing.

Well, here’s your daily dose of satisfaction, and it’s called Vegan Zucchini Crust Pizza.

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Frozen Fruit Kabobs

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Your favorite red, white, and blue frozen fruit kabobs on skewers and drizzled with melted dark chocolate. Perfect for a healthy fourth of July treat!

Where’s the coolest place you’ve watched fireworks?

My favorite is a local vineyard here in Virginia– it’s really high up on a peak and sitting outdoors on its grounds you can see all the way to DC on the skyline.

The winery doesn’t put off their own fireworks, but then they don’t need to.

After sunset, big bursts of color appear along the horizon, in every direction.

I love to sit, perched on a blanket on the lawn, Ooohing and Aaaahing and pointing every which way.

Why watch one fireworks show when you could watch 20?

This year, I’m bringing dessert.

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Orange Coconut Creamsicles

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Orange coconut creamsicles made with orange juice, coconut cream, and a touch of maple syrup. The perfect healthy treat to beat the heat!

If you’re reading this post from somewhere cool know that I am more than just a little jealous of you.

It was SO hot here this weekend, friends!

You know it’s hot if *I* think it’s too hot, because I’ve always loved the dog days of summer.

Heat? I laugh in the face of heat, Ha Ha Ha.

(I just saw The Lion King in theaters– if you get the reference.)

I went to hot yoga on Saturday and left honestly uncertain whether the great outdoors was remotely any cooler than the humid heated studio was.

Then on Sunday I got up early and laced up my tennis shoes, excited to get my run in before the sun was up.

Except the temp didn’t wait for the sun to start skyrocketing.

I ran about a mile and decided to switch my steady state cardio to popsicle making.

So here we are, left with the delicious results of our recent heat wave.

These Orange Coconut Creamsicles are guaranteed to keep you cool, calm, and collected today and the rest of the summer!

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Roasted Cauliflower Cashew Queso

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Creamy and “cheesy” vegan queso with roasted cauliflower and cashews. Perfect for dipping and adding to your favorite Mexican dishes.

Midweek check-in.

How are you doing? How’s your week?

I’ve been tired, friends, so tired that I wished everyone a happy Tuesday today on Instagram instead of Wednesday.

Check-ins are better with cheese.

If you’ve been following along here for a while, you know I’m no stranger to vegan cheeses.

There’s my Easy Raw Cashew Cheese, Sweet Potato Nacho Cheese, and “Cheezy” Tahini Sauce — all great places to start if you’re looking for a cheese substitute!

I also made a really delicious Creamy Cauliflower Dip a while back that obviously made quite an impression on me.

This Roasted Cauliflower Cashew Queso takes the best of both ideals and blends them together in one smooth and cheesy plant-based dip.

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4-Ingredient Peach Butter

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4-ingredient peach butter made with fresh peaches, lemon, and cinnamon lightly sweetened with a pinch of unrefined coconut sugar. The best summer spread!

Guys, I don’t get to the farmer’s market enough.

On my last visit I shuffled from tent to tent looking for the perfect mother’s day gift to bring to brunch.

Before I found the *perfect* bouquet of wildflowers, though, I had a bunch of peach butter jars in hand.

It was exciting because I’d never seen peach butter with such simple clean ingredients.

I walked up to the closest farmer to purchase my newfound spread only to find that…*gasp*…they didn’t take cards.

Cash only.

I handed them back the peach butter, crestfallen, and walked away determined to make my own peach butter to share.

You don’t have to have any cash to grab the deets here!

This 4-Ingredient Peach Butter is the perfect way to use summer peaches in an easy refined sugar free spread.

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Vegan Pineapple Coleslaw with Cherries

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Creamy plant-based coleslaw without oil or dairy! Cabbage and carrot mixed with an almond milk yogurt dressing with pops of pineapple and dried cherry.

Happy Friday Eve!

Last weekend on our camping trip we took Harper hiking along Lake Anna.

I love the feeling of being swallowed up by the woods; only green trees and wet dirt and Harper’s fluffy white frame for as far as I could see.

Starting the day outdoors always leaves me feeling more grounded and at peace, almost childlike, you know?

And that, dear friends, is what summer is all about.

But enough about me– let’s talk about you.

Is anyone attending a cookout or barbecue this weekend?

This Vegan Pineapple Coleslaw with Cherries is the perfect go-to plant-based slaw to add to your summer spread!

Add some pineapple and cherries and it’s a freakin’ party.

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No-Bake Tropical Protein Bars

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No-Bake Tropical Protein Bars with dried fruit, cashews, coconut, and SunButter. Naturally sweetened with orange juice and no-added-sugar.

What’s your preferred form of expression?

I’m much better at expressing my feelings through writing than speaking.

This won’t surprise you, friend, because you’re reading this on a screen somewhere.

When I was a little girl and needed to get something off of my chest, I wrote it all out on a wide rule sheet of paper and placed it under my parents’ pillows for them to find.

It always felt a little less scary to and chaotic to corral words on a page instead of on the tip of my tongue, you know?

These No-Bake Tropical Protein Bars might get you tongue tied, too, but only because they’re so darn good.

You just need 10-ingredients and lots of tropical fruit to create them!

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Vegetable Pasta Salad (Grain-Free!)

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Lightened up pasta salad packed with fresh chopped vegetables, grain-free chickpea pasta, and balsamic dressing. Perfect for summer lunches!

Have you been to the pool yet?

I went for my first time this season on Memorial Day with a girlfriend.

It was late on the holiday and I really just wanted to lay there motionless in the sun until dark, but I recognized with a sigh that the workweek was quickly approaching.

So we shifted out convo to preparation for week, which sifted to food and meal prep and easy things to throw together with the limited time we had.

I confessed that lunches had me particularly perplexed lately.

What do you eat when you don’t want salads for lunch, but also aren’t in the mood for cooking?

(I swear I’m a food blogger, haha.)

“What about a pasta salad?” she asked.

Yes, what about that.

This Vegetable Pasta Salad (Grain-Free!) is packed with protein and raw vegetables for an easy lightened up vegan pasta salad!

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Dark Chocolate Chia Pudding

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Easy dark chocolate chia pudding sweetened with maple syrup and topped with cacao nibs and fresh mint. Perfect for meal prep snacking.

Do any of you have green thumbs?

What I want: A house filled with green plants like the striking minimalist photos I thumb past on Instagram.

The Reality: To be honest I’m really bad about caring for plants.

The few we do have around the house, a healthy money tree, a snake plant my parents gave me when we moved in, and a large Ivy that Dan trained to wrap around the speakers and windows of his “man cave”, are only alive and well thanks to Dan’s diligence.

Dan is good about watering them, pruning them, and positioning them in the right amount of sunlight

….and I’m good at admiring them and that’s about the extent of it.

So when my friend gifted me some home-grown mint this past weekend at book club brunch, I accepted it with excited determination.

I vowed to use the mint in a recipe, and to keep the darn thing alive.

I did one of those things already…

and it’s called Dark Chocolate Chia Pudding.

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Blueberry Banana Breakfast Bread

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1-bowl Blueberry Banana Breakfast Bread made with gluten-free oats, banana, almond butter, and lots of blueberries. Perfect for breakfast or snack!

Longest short week ever, am I right?

This week I went to an outside the studio yoga event that involved meant meeting lots of new yogis.

When was the last time you did something outside of your comfort zone?

Being an adult means you get to make all (or most) of your own decisions, so it’s really easy (for me) to decide to keep things cozy and predictable.

Especially working from home, I find that it even more imperative that I, you know, leave the house every once in while.

It was so fun connecting with like-minded yogis and I was proud of myself for taking a step into the unknown.

So, now the rest of our week and weekend decisions should be easy.

Like…do I want to bake this Blueberry Banana Breakfast Bread now or later?

…always now!

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