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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PASSION ORANGE COOLER + DRINK GOOD DO GOOD.

This post is sponsored by Naked Juice and the #DrinkGoodDoGood campaign, working to bring awareness to America’s food deserts. All opinions are my own. I grew up in the opposite of a food desert, a place so abundant that friends…
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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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SWEET COCONUT, HIBISCUS & LIME SLUSHIES!

It’s been hot. Too hot. Scary hot. Hot like triple digits, hot like underboob sweat, hot like is this the end of the world. Hot like should I start conserving water because it’s year 5 of California’s epic drought and…
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AVOCADO, CORN & HERB EGG TARTINES.

I have strange cravings. Pickles (always), chocolate, grilled cheese, peanut butter, watermelon, RAISIN BRAN. (Why. Why do I always crave raisin bran???) I’m kind of like a pregnant woman, except all the time and minus the fetus. Fun! I never…
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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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