This healthy, homemade pancake mix makes it easy to serve up fresh pancakes in the morning. (Or dinner!) What's more, you can easily make them dairy or gluten-free. We eat a lot of pancakes at our house. Usually once or twice a week. Which is why it's so important that they are not only nutritious but also easy to make! Although I've been creating these from scratch for years, it wasn't ...
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Blueberry Peach Breakfast Crisp
This blueberry peach breakfast crisp is perfect for brightening up your weekday morning and fancy enough for a weekend brunch. Vegan, gluten-free, and just sweet enough! My childhood friend Amy runs an incredible farm and nursery in New Hampshire, Hemingway Farms. They grow everything from tomatoes, to squash, to potatoes, to raspberries, to flowers. On a recent visit she loaded me up with ...
Kale and Garlic Scape Frittata
This Kale and Garlic Scape Frittata is simple to throw together and packed with nutrients and flavor. Perfect for breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner, it's a great way to use up that leftover kale. Frittata Frittata. Such a fun word to say. It almost sounds like it should be a verb, like "do you frittata?" As another dietitian commented on my Instagram post yesterday, "I think frittata ...
Nordic-Style Oat Waffles (Gluten-Free)
These oat waffles are so delicious your kids will never know they are healthy! Made with wholesome ingredients such as oats and Greek yogurt, they will help get everyone's day off to a great start. After trying a Bubble waffle, I decided to try and make my own waffles with a Nordic touch to them! Mornings. How they go can really set the tone for the rest of the day. Breakfast = an ...
Refueling with Smoked Salmon Stuffed Hasselback Potatoes
These smoked salmon stuffed Hasselback potatoes are delicious any time of day! They also make an excellent post-workout meal, simply make the potatoes ahead of time and heat them in the microwave when you are ready to eat. Disclosure: By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by Potatoes USA and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I was not ...
Vanilla Oat Scones (Gluten Free)
These vanilla oat scones are melt in your mouth good. You would never know they are loaded with fiber and gluten free. One of my favorite baked goods to mix together is Blueberry Oat Scones. The rest of my family loves them too. Ok, almost the rest of my family. My youngest is not a blueberry fan (I think he may have overdone it on blueberries during toddlerhood), so the last few times I ...
Kale, Avocado & Raspberry Salad
Do you like kale salad? If not, this may be the salad to change that. Topped with goodies such as raspberries, avocado, and goat cheese, and sweetened with a touch of honey, this salad is hard to resist. I was a kale skeptic for a long time. Kale was not part of my Scandinavian cuisine growing up, but rather something I learned to use as garnish and decoration while working in a Marriott hotel ...
Dairy-Free Carrot Cake Waffles
These dairy-free carrot cake waffles are light and delicious. They are perfect for a special weekend breakfast or brunch. No waffle maker? No problem, the batter can also be used to make pancakes! We eat a lot of pancakes and waffles at our house. The kids love them and I love both how nourishing they are and how easy it is to customize the ingredients to your needs and liking. I used my ...
Poached Eggs
I may not have been blogging much lately (enter last week of school and travel, unpacking in the new home, and then traveling again for the 4th of July holiday). But I have been making a lot of poached eggs. Poached eggs are my current go-to for a fast, but gourmet, breakfast, snack, or lunch. I started writing this post while on the Cape last week (before realizing there was no longer ...
Flying Pancakes
These whole grain flying pancakes are a delicious way to your weekend--or spice up a weekday morning. Why are they called flying pancakes you ask? My family started calling them flying pancakes after my then 3-year-old niece referred to them as flying pancakes after she first had them. I guess that is what they looked like to her... You see, when I cook pancakes, I start out by ...
