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Magical Mushroom Dessert Cups

February 9, 2025

Recently, I started playing Dungeons & Dragons with a group of friends. I've been interested in doing so for years, but my nerves always got the better of me. Let me just say, two sessions in, I could not be more glad I finally decided to go for it! In our latest session, our group found ...

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Filed Under: Desserts, Recipes Tagged: dessert, desserts, recipes, vegetarian

Vegan Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

August 20, 2023

Chocolate chip cookies are always a safe bet to fulfill a sweet tooth craving. But extra soft and fluffy chocolate chip cookies with an extra kick of banana flavor? You may just never go back to traditional cookies again! Plus, these are totally vegan, come together super quickly, and make a ton ...

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Melt-in-Your-Mouth Peanut Butter Cookies

July 23, 2020

I love peanut butter in just about every form. On bread, swirled in ice cream, drizzled on fruit or mixed into smoothies, in frostings and sauces—you name it. That being said, I don't know why I'll often go years without thinking about peanut butter cookies. Every single time they randomly cross my ...

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Smoky Butternut Squash Vegan Cheese Sauce

November 23, 2019

‘Tis the season for comfort foods, and I’m so thankful to live in a time when cozy eats can be just as healthy as they are indulgent. Take, for example, this smoky butternut squash vegan cheese sauce. I found the recipe for this gem of a dish over on Oh She Glows less than a year ago, and can’t ...

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Filed Under: Meals, Recipes Tagged: meals, recipes, savory, vegan, vegetarian

Pale Ale White Bean Chili

September 8, 2019

As we near the end of summer, chili season gets closer! The next month or so is that kind of weird in-between time, when the much-loved dish may sound good, but the still-hot weather makes it hard to enjoy such a heavy meal. So, why not lighten it up? ...

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A Month of Vegetarian Meals: October 2018

October 1, 2018

Happy October and Happy World Vegetarian Day, friends! We're excited for the cooler weather, cozier nights, and heartier foods that are about to fill the coming weeks and months as autumn settles in. ...

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Almost every nook and cranny of our home is filled Almost every nook and cranny of our home is filled with sentimental pieces. I’m the daughter, granddaughter, and niece that will gladly take items the family may otherwise get rid of or have tucked away in closets for decades, untouched. The kind of traveler that looks for leaves and shells and rocks to keep in my pockets and carry with me, so I can always hold a piece of where I’ve been. Usually, I have no idea where these things may come to live in my own home, but they always manage to find their perfect places in time.

These shelves alone hold a basket full of stones and shells from around the world, framed high school love letters my grandpa wrote to my grandma in the 1940s, an assortment of found and inherited books, some well more than a century old, and sweet portraits of my great grandparents. 

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