Snacky Things – Page 2 – Kale and Caramel

CLUMPY GRANOLA BOWL WITH STEWED RHUBARB & YOGURT FROM CHICKPEA FLOUR DOES IT ALL.

Something in the shock of death made me rebellious. I had never been rebellious before—rebellion seemed too risky, too much of an affront to the possibility of being accepted. My teenage years were full of dance rehearsals, AP exams, learning…
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MEZZE BOWLS WITH HUMMUS, TZATZIKI & BASIL MINT PESTO.

It was the first time in thirty two years I’d landed on Maui and would not go directly home. I would not see one of my parents’ faces beaming up at me from the open air staircase leading down to…
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MISO EDAMAME HUMMUS WITH SPRING CRUDITÉS.

1998. I am 15. I am in the back of a dusty blue minivan hurtling along the craggy and barren west coast of the Hawaiian island of Maui, and I am weeping. I am weeping at the first lush and…
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MEDITERRANEAN CHICKPEA & BABA GANOUSH WRAPS.

We wound our way through tiny, cobblestoned streets that smelled like smoke and coffee and the acrid scent of city in summer. We were looking for falafel. We were in Paris. I was thirteen. I can’t say for sure, but…
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BAKED BRIE, ROSEMARY & CARAMELIZED PEAR CANAPÉS.

What happens to you when you whisper the words holiday canapé to yourself? In my mind, this gallant suggestion of syllables transforms me into someone wearing lace and silk, someone with perfectly coiffed (yes, coiffed) hair, someone gliding in and out…
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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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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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GINGERSNAP & ROASTED PINEAPPLE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES!

Last month, my sweet friends Tara and Tucker gave me an unusual birthday gift that they swore was the most perfect and exciting (nay THRILLING) and genius present ever. They gave me hints it had something to do with my…
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BLACK SESAME TOFU TACOS WITH SRIRACHA SOUR CREAM & KIMCHI MARINATED VEGGIES.

Remember that one time I tried to make kimchi but it never fermented so I just had a boatload of kimchi marinated veggies? Yah, me too. And even though it didn’t work out the way I’d hoped and dreamed, it…
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SALTED CARAMEL CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES + A BIRTHDAY PICNIC!

A) I have cookies. Smothered in salted caramel. Made with coconut sugar. (!) B) It’s my birthday. (!!) C) We had a picnic. (!!!) D) There are pictures of every single earth-shatteringly caramel-y, picnicky, people-I-love-being-adorable moment. (!!!!) I’m going to…
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PEACHES & CREAM SMOOTHIE CRUMBLE PARFAIT.

I’m getting back to my body. Body had a very intense run of the show (of my life, that is) for many, many years. I grew up dancing and doing Pilates and yoga and performing almost every weekend of the…
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SUPERFOOD GUIDE (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM BEYONCÉ).

Oh hai. My loves over on Snapchat and Instagram have been after me about a superfood guide for a while now, and it’s finally time. Time to unveil the proprietary K&C Superfood Guide explained in Beyoncé gifs, that is. There…
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