holiday cookie box 2020
Here it is! The inaugural Venturing East cookie box. Don’t let the variety intimidate you – there is no one perfect way to…
Category: Desserts
honey basil pear brussels sprouts and cranberry chevre crostini
Look familiar? I featured these crostini on Venturing East’s Instagram in one of my Trader Joe’s hauls. Each week I develop a simple…
pumpkin cake with gingerbread buttercream
The perfect sweet treat to segue between autumn and Christmas, am I right? A tempting two-layer pumpkin body enrobed in a spicy molasses-based…
cardamom sugar swirled cider pumpkin bread
Comfort baking is essential in this period, and pumpkin may be teetering on the edge of a toothpick but I firmly believe it…
sugar cookie protein snack bites
I could not contain my credit card when I saw that Wild Friends released their seasonal peanut butter flavors a week or so…
cheddar & chive focaccia
Bread baking defined my quarantine activity list. Truly, it felt like finding home. Bread, after all, is the building block of human cuisine.…
black & white funfetti oat bars
Let’s have some fun with sprinkles, shall we? This snack, breakfast, dessert, whathaveyou, boasts heaps of delectable chocolate goodness sans the nasties. Never…
cinnamon toast crunch banana bread
The cereal namesake of this recipe occupied many a childhood bowl. Really, even teenage and college-year bowls. So, in homage, I went full-circle…
chai spiced dark chocolate almond butter swirl muffins (vegan)
Muffins dominate the Venturing East sweet treat arsenal. This is my second recipe of the sort. That’s because muffins are so wonderfully diverse:…
lemony basil pesto white bean hummus
If nothing else, right now we require comfort. I personally have shifted daily, hourly, between restful and restless. I haven’t slept much or…