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VEGAN NO KNEAD CINNAMON ROLLS. Pin it! Pin it! The thing about these vegan no knead cinnamon rolls is that a) they are a health food in so far as joy is a requirement for good health, and b) they’re probably the laziest (but still so delicious) version of cinnamon rolls you can make. Other facts! They are ooey-gooey and 100% perfect with coffee. They are ideally consumed on Christmas morning in holiday themed pyjamas. Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins Recipe. It’s my birthday today, which is timely, because I have to tell you that I couldn’t be more excited that this post kicks off a series of recipes I’ve been working on for Anthropologie(!!).

Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins Recipe

Pinch me. First up are these sweet apple cinnamon muffins that I baked up in this super sweet ceramic muffin pan. These cozy muffins are pure apple-cinnamon-ey goodness coming out of the oven. They’re on the lighter side – they’re dairy-free and use applesauce in place of some of the oil and sugar. Blueberry Coconut Baked Oatmeal Recipe. Apple Cinnamon Crunch Overnight Oats Recipe. It’s December!

Apple Cinnamon Crunch Overnight Oats Recipe

How did that happen already? With the holidays quickly approaching, you’re busy (and I’m busy!) … all the more reason to have a super quick energizing breakfast ready to go in the morning. This recipe takes less than 5 minutes to put together at night and it’s ready in the morning. Blueberry Lemon Zest Breakfast Cookies Recipe. Here’s how much I love these cookies: after I finish typing this post, I’m going to go downstairs to the kitchen to make more.

Blueberry Lemon Zest Breakfast Cookies Recipe

I like to store stashes of these cookies in the freezer because they’re a perfectly portioned daily breakfast for me. The freezer is also a great way to hide them from Jack, who would otherwise eat one every time he walks past the kitchen counter 🙂 These cookies are both vegan and gluten free. They have fiber from the oats, protein and healthy fats from the almond butter, and they’re naturally sweetened with maple syrup. Who wants to eat a bowl of oatmeal when you can eat a cookie for breakfast!? Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins Recipe. If you were to ask me which food most defines my childhood, I’d answer – without hesitation – chocolate chip muffins.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins Recipe

During my entire childhood, not only did my mom make chocolate chip muffins at least once or twice a week for breakfast, but my grandmother would bring giant containers full of them whenever she visited. Even when I went off to college, my mom actually mailed the muffins to me. Warm and Nutty Cinnamon Quinoa Recipe. This stunning berry-studded breakfast quinoa is from Dr.

Warm and Nutty Cinnamon Quinoa Recipe

John La Puma's recent release - Chef MD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine. I've written about just a handful of books this year (more to come, I promise!) , but I wanted to highlight this one for a few reasons. Pineapple Coconut Water Recipe. Once or twice a year, I buy a pineapple.

Pineapple Coconut Water Recipe

It feels like a strange thing to purchase in San Francisco. Pineapples = hot tropics, beaches, bare feet, and endless summers. Chia Pudding with Blackberries, Coconut and Pistachios. NaYPsx3 Chia Pudding with Blackberries, Coconut and Pistachios ½ cup blackberries 3 tablespoons chia seeds 1 cup unsweetened almond milk ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon unsweetened shredded coconut 10 raw, unsalted pistachios (20 for men) In a small mixing bowl, crush the blackberries with a fork so that they’re the consistency of a thick jam.

Chia Pudding with Blackberries, Coconut and Pistachios

Add chia seeds, almond milk, vanilla extract, and shredded coconut. Stir everything together to combine, then transfer to a small airtight container and refrigerate overnight. When you’re ready to eat the pudding, roughly chop the pistachios and sprinkle them over the chia pudding to eat. 330 calories, 23.9 g fat (4.5 g saturated fat), 29.5 g carbohydrate (20.5 g dietary fiber, 5.3 g sugars), 10.8 g protein, 0 mg cholesterol, 182 mg sodium.

Overnight Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding. I’m a little late to the chia seed pudding bandwagon, I know.

Overnight Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding

But that doesn’t mean I can’t be an enthusiast. The chia seed has been having a moment for what seems like the past five years. That’s probably because its uses are limitless. My favorite everyday way to use chia seeds is in place of flax seeds in a Flax Egg, Simple Fruit Compote and Grain Free Granola. But upon discovering you could also use them to make creamy, dreamy pudding, I had to give it a go.

Let’s get our pudding on, shall we? This recipe is simple, requiring just 6 basic ingredients that are totally versatile. Coconut Baked Oatmeal Recipe. Baked oatmeal is one of my signature breakfast and brunch moves, for all the typical reasons.

Coconut Baked Oatmeal Recipe

Make ahead, check. Adaptable, check. Many five year olds love it, and most forty year olds too. Banana Zucchini Oatmeal Cups. When people tell me they “forgot” to eat breakfast, I get…confused.

Banana Zucchini Oatmeal Cups

Like totally, completely, utterly, extraordinarily bamboozled. Wait. What do you mean, you “forgot?” Did you forget to brush your teeth, too? Were you blind all day because you forgot to put your contacts in that morning? Sunshine Citrus Chia Bowls Recipe. I have to admit – some of these food trends, even the healthy ones, I can’t wait to see come to an end. Superfood sunshine smoothies recipe. Happy almost new year!

I don’t know about you, but I’m sure ready to start eating a little bit lighter and brighter. And of course, “healthy” in my book doesn’t mean bland and boring… quite the opposite. In the middle of winter,* I find myself craving bright orange and red foods… so here’s a sunny smoothie I made with oranges, goji berries, bananas and almond milk. And for a healing kick: a bit of ginger. Cheers to a healthy new year! Breakfast Bowl with Amaranth Granola Recipe - Love and Lemons. Let me start out by saying: I’m not a cereal person. I’ve told this story before – my sister and I used to BEG my mom for all of the artificially colored sugary cereals with fun cartoon characters… sometimes she’d give in but always with the disclaimer “only if you actually eat it this time.”

We would excitedly make this promise only to go home, have one bowl and never touch it again. Pumpkin Spice Orange Banana Bread Bars for Fall. There they sat, on my counter, three sad, wilting bananas - growing blacker and mushier by the day. Vegan Coconut Zucchini Chocolate Chip Bread. Vegan Pumpkin Apple Muffins. When John and I started dating, one of my favorite things about him besides his ridiculously good taste in music and his honey brown eyes, was the fact that he could bake muffins.

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins - Dirty Gourmet. Baked Peach Almond Oatmeal. Pear, cocoa, hazelnut and raspberry baked oatmeal. Raw Buckwheat Porridge De Luxe. We did it again … survived another winter in Sweden! Okay, I realize that we are only in the beginning of February, so it is technically still winter for at least another month. Steel-Cut Oats with Blackberries and Hemp Seeds. Save to My Recipes You can prepare steel-cut oats according to package directions. Baked Carrot Cake Oatmeal. Apple & Oat Biscuits – Vegan & GF.

Quinoatmeal with Apple and Toasted Walnuts. Birthday Blueberries. Rooberry smoothie. Gluten Free Avocado Mango Smoothie. Strawberry rhubarb crisp bars. Almond sweet potato biscuits + mushroom gravy. Vegan Broccoli Quiche Recipe - Vegetarian Quiche Recipe - Vegan Tofu Breakfast Recipe - Vegetarian Breakfast Recipe. Cranberry Scones with Lemon Glaze. Easy Cinnamon Rolls. Vegan coffee cake muffins. Mandarin Orange Dark Chocolate + Poppy Seed Muffins. Apple Oat-Bran Muffins. Lemon Spelt Bread. Pumpkin seed granola + not just oats.