• Guacamole salad

    This salad is great for Super Bowl or, really, for any party. It is colorful, delicious and even kind of healthy! (You don’t have to tell anyone that, though) You can make most of it beforehand, but you should wait until just before people arrive to add the avocados. Otherwise they may get brown and […]

  • Raw spiced applesauce

    Remember that apple slide show from Sunset magazine a few weeks ago? Just about everything on it looks good to me, but I made the apple corn muffins first. This recipe is much faster and simpler. I don’t really like eating red apples raw, for whatever reason. But these are perfect in this applesauce. You […]

  • Cranberry-apple fluff

    A few years ago, my mom got sick on Christmas. At that point, I had done a lot of baking and could cook a few dinner items (rigatoni, chicken tacos and spaghetti with tomato sauce, basically), but preparing an entire Christmas dinner was a little daunting. Luckily, my mom had already bought a ham and […]

  • Strawberries, sour cream and brown sugar

    I know. It sounds disgusting. But seriously, it is really good. Isabel is the one who told me about this. Actually, she texted me about it. And kept texting and texting. She is totally obsessed with it and wanted me to try it. Yeah, it isn’t technically a recipe. But I wanted to share it […]

  • Watermelon sorbet (no ice cream maker required)

    I have been thinking about making watermelon sorbet for a long time. Then a girl at work was talking about how she wants to get an ice cream maker. And I read this article in the New York Times about egg-free ice cream (which I wish I had read before the vanilla bean incident last […]