Recipes

Mega Delish Classic Oatmeal Raisin Cookies


These Mega Delish Classic Oatmeal Raisin Cookies just got a mega makeover! After making 100s of cookie recipes for The Cookie Book and DisplacedHousewife, I knew I could make these oatmeal cookies even better! Also check out these Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, my Erewhon copycat GF DF Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies and these Chocolate Dipped Oatmeal Ice Cream…

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Five Spice Fig Jam


I love love love to add Chinese five-space powder to warm up baked goods and treats and it is no less stunning in this Five-Spice Fig Jam. I’ve been making it for years with plums (thanks to two plum trees) but found it was equally fabulous made with figs. And so dang good on a cheese board! If you love…

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Spicy Sausage + Burrata Penne Pasta | Recipe via DisplacedHousewife | super quick + easy midweek dinner

Italian Sausage + Burrata Penne Pasta


This penne pasta comes together so quickly that it could easily be a mid-week, just-got-home-from-work dinner. But it also has a ton of Sunday supper potential. This sauce, sitting on the stove, going low and slow and filling the house with lots of warm basil and tomato smells. Yes…that’s the kind of Sunday I want to have. This penne pasta…

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One-Bowl Strawberry Cardamom Cake


You’re about to meet your new favorite dessert: one-bowl strawberry cardamom cake! And it’s the easiest thing ever. You’re welcome. This recipe is only very slightly adapted from The New York Times’s Plum Torte recipe. I had never even heard of this recipe until this past plum season when I sent out a plea via Instagram: What to do with all…

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Strawberry Freekah Salad With Pistachio-Crusted Goat Cheese


Guys, you need to get on the freekah bandwagon. It’s delicious. I was skeptical. I mean REALLY skeptical. But it’s amazing. When it comes to salads, I need them loaded. I mean, I need every flipping bite teeming with taste and texture. We have that here. Right now. With this salad. We start with a base of freekah. Then we…

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Slices of strawberry brownies

Balsamic Strawberry Brownies


I like brownies. No, check that. I love brownies. The only flaw in brownies, as far as I can see, is theΒ fact that we always make them in that annoyingly small 8X8 pyrex dish. At my house that only feeds four of us. I’m just being completely honest with you guys. One way to get more mileage out of the…

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Brown Butter Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk Cookies


These Brown Butter Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are ALL THE THINGS. Loaded with spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves), a heavy hand of vanilla, brown sugar and the magic of brown butter, these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies deliver on all fronts. For texture they are soft, chewy and are still soft two days later (you will love them!). This recipe recently got…

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Meal Planning | week two


For those of you joining us, this is our second week of meal planning (read the first one here). The goal of these posts is to make your mid-week planning, cooking + eating easier. Maybe a little bit healthier? It will contain a collection of my recipes + links off to others. My back went out this week (miserable) so this week’s…

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