SMOKY SHAKSHUKA WITH GRILLED BREAD.

Sometimes growth is slow, so slow you don’t notice the shifts in perspective, your slightly greater ease of being, the gradual way in which your body moves more comfortably through the world. And sometimes growth is tangible, snappy, thrilling—a new…
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BOURBON GINGERSNAP ICE CREAM SUNDAES!

When I was young, I dreamed of a kitchen filled with chocolate and sugary cereal and white bread and jars of Goober peanut butter and jelly. Instead, our shelves were lined with jars of nutritional yeast and adzuki beans, our…
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SPINACH & POTATO GALETTE.

I have waxed poetic so many times about the magical elegance and ease of the galette. It’s a million times simpler to throw together than a pie, but somehow manages to be sexier and far more flexible. You can stuff…
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MEXICAN PIZZA!

What’s a Mexican pizza? my friends asked with dulcet wonderment in their eyes and bellies. Each time, I would go on to describe to them that one pizza I had that one time at Flatbread Pizza on Maui. Corn and…
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ROASTED KABOCHA FENNEL SOUP.

This soup is a primer for autumn nights: Earthy, rich on the palate, warming, and deeply comforting. It’s also a prelude to a confession: I rarely use pumpkin for my seasonal cooking. The trouble is, kabocha squash is everything pumpkin…
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LATE SUMMER STONE FRUIT COMPOTE.

One last fling before the summer disappears. One last sticky-sweet immersion into the sexy roundness of the season’s best fruit. Bruised. Overripe. Molded, even. All of it can be salvaged, rediscovered, renewed with the magic touches of lemon and sugar…
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SPICY PINEAPPLE MOJITO GREEN JUICE.

This post is inspired and sponsored by Pilates Platinum. All opinions are my own. Thanks for supporting the businesses that help Kale & Caramel thrive! A few posts back, I wrote about coming back to my body, returning to a…
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ROSEMARY MEZCAL APPLE CIDER.

This summer I got a call from my friend Max (a crazy talented producer and videographer) to spend some time working on a video project. It was fast in and fast out—six videos shot in maybe just one day. Ten…
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