DIY instant oatmeal in a jar.
Instant oatmeal cups are a delicious, quick way to start your day. But wow … so expensive. Here’s a recipe for making your own instant oatmeal in a jar.
Tag: better than store-bought
Black pepper taralli.
Cute and round and packed with flavors of olive oil, pepper and salt, these little, round, shortbread-like crackers called taralli are perfect with an aperitivo. You could buy them, sure, but they’re SO fun to make!
Dark chocolate sea salt muesli.
On a quest to solve the between-breakfast-and-lunch hungries, I created this recipe for Dark Chocolate and Sea Salt muesli.
Confetti couscous and vegetables.
If you’re fatigued by lousy pasta salad drowning in dressing, soggy potato salad or other sad, sad side dishes, give this vibrant and full-flavored side a try. Perfect with grilled chicken, fish, even BBQ.
White bean puree.
If you love hummus like I do, you’ll love this recipe too: A rough purée of freshly cooked high-quality white beans with fragrant garlic, lemon and parsley. Great on pita chips!
1-2-3-4 Cake.
Ever heard of 1-2-3-4 Cake? Yeah, me neither. But it’s the formula for the most fundamental, essential, delicious cake. Even if you don’t self-identify as a baker, you can whip this cake up and impress everyone you know.
Oven dried cherry tomato pesto.
Thanks to some season-long gardening woes, I’m just now harvesting Sun Gold cherry tomatoes. A lot of them. And so I’m making this: Oven-Dried Cherry Tomato Pesto. So easy and so delicious. What do you do with Oven-Dried Cherry Tomato Pesto? It’s great on pasta and in pasta salads. Great spread over grilled fish. Great on turkey sandwiches, grilled cheese or BLTs. Great spooned over sliced tomatoes and fresh mozzarella. Get the recipe over on writes4food.com!
Homemade almond granola, perfected.
Here it is: granola perfection. Toasty brown, not too sweet, with a kick of sea salt, and clumpy enough to eat out of hand. I’ve worked this recipe over and over, and now it’s Perfect Homemade Almond Granola.
Dark chocolate sea salt energy bites.
Midmorning, I’ll grab a mini Lara bar to stave off the hungries, especially if I’m heading to the gym for a lunchtime workout class. I thought: Could I make these little date-nut energy bars myself? Yep, I can. They’re super easy, delicious and 82 calories each. Get the recipe over on writes4food.com!
