Recipes

This vegan pasta bake with broccoli, tomatoes, and smoked tofu is a family favorite! It’s super delicious, creamy with a crispy top, kid-friendly, and very easy to make.  Why This Recipe Works We’ve been making this easy vegan pasta bake for years and our kids absolutely love it! I love that it’s easy to prepare ahead, so you can just place everything in the oven on busy weeknights.  The sauce is super rich and creamy and it has a nice crispy crust. My favorite veggies for this pasta bake are broccoli and cherry tomatoes, but the recipe also works well...

Jon and I have been enjoying tag-teaming some elaborate meals lately: It turns something ridiculously labour intensive into a reasonable project. Today we made homemade lasagna from scratch, including the noodles! We had about 10 lbs of fresh tomatoes left that I wanted to use up. Jon made a double batch of noodles, I made a gigantic pot of meat & tomato sauce, we ended up with two large and one medium lasagna – one to eat, one to share, and one to freeze! I don’t have a recipe to share here because I don’t use one, but here’s some...

Making A Weekly Meal Plan Is Easier With A Template Whether you’re the only one in charge of keeping everyone in the house fed or you share that responsibility with someone else, it’s a lot of work! From budgeting to grocery shopping to cooking, every step takes time, effort, and planning, and the work never ends! But the good news is that it is indeed possible to keep your family well-fed without losing your mind in the process. ;-) And I hope to prove it in today’s post, where I’ll be sharing a simple system you use to save yourself...

Come the dark, cold days of January that seem to number far more than 31, I have to play tricks with myself to pull my mind through. It's not that I don't enjoy winter. Here in the high desert, the white snow stretches from our front porch up to the top of the mountains that surround our little valley. The ice, the sharpness, the muted sounds and tones delight my soul in a way, if only to whet my appetite for the warmer and productive days ahead.  This far in, I've learned to always walk slowly (as the ice layer...

This one-pot skillet lasagna recipe is a fun take on traditional lasagna. Using no-boil pasta makes this a delicious and satisfying one-pot meal that everyone in your family will enjoy. I should preface this post by saying that this recipe was a complete accident. I saw skillet lasagna recipes on Google, saw that many of them would take about 30 minutes to make, and did absolutely no further investigative work. If I had actually read some of the recipes, I would have realized that skillet lasagna is its own class of recipes. Typically, it’s prepared by adding torn or diced...