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BEST HEALTHY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES FROM HEALTHIER TOGETHER BY LIZ MOODY.

Almost half of Americans feel lonely. Whether happily coupled, perennially single, or surrounded by a family constellation the size of the Milky Way, most of us face an immense and abiding sense of being alone. Sometimes it’s more than just…
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NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE TAHINI OAT BARS + GIRL MEETS FARM!

This week marks the premiere of a show our generation has been waiting for: a cooking show—a parable of new domesticity—to which we can actually relate. Someone our age. Someone who loves matcha and funfetti. Someone Jewish and Chinese. Someone…
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BLOOD ORANGE BLOSSOM FUDGE BROWNIES.

I can’t remember the last time I had a valentine on Valentine’s Day. The holiday and all of its attendant bustle around romance, and the capitalization thereof, make me a bit queasy. My desire for love is a constant thrum…
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GRAIN-FREE VEGAN MISO APPLE BLONDIES + VERMONT.

Every morning in Vermont, I picked an apple. They weren’t perfect apples—late season, their skin mottled with sun spots and evidence of worms—and it wasn’t a perfect tree—the fruit was high, the branches were losing their leaves, and I often…
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BLUEBERRY OATMEAL BREAKFAST SKILLET COOKIE (VEGAN).

This post was created in partnership with Le Creuset. All opinions are my own. So I’m reading this book about hope. It’s been a cynical kind of a year thus far (blueberry oatmeal breakfast skillet cookies aside), and the year…
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ROSEWATER BROWNIES WITH CARDAMOM TAHINI FROSTING + A COOKBOOK PREVIEW.

There’s a truism attributed to Joseph Campbell, though no-one has ever found a specific source in his work for it: We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. You’ve probably…
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JASMINE MATCHA SNOWBALL COOKIES (VEGAN).

Despite the season’s best efforts to woo me with cakes and cookies and pies (even those coming out of my own kitchen), I’ve been doggedly drawn to savories this winter. I crave soups and broths, piles of steaming veggies and…
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TRIPLE MEXICAN CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES (VEGAN).

This post was created in partnership with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker to celebrate National Chocolate Day! All opinions are my own. I’m a total Halloween failure. I nailed it as a kid: Pippy Longstockings (with the red hair, I was a shoe-in), a…
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TART CHERRY, CHOCOLATE & HEMPSEED NO-BAKE OAT BARS FROM ALTERNATIVE BAKER.

For a long while, I felt like life was mostly endings. Deaths and sicknesses and hearts broken. My mother diagnosed with cancer in the same stroke as a relationship ended. Everything felt heavy. My words were heavy. My limbs moved…
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PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK BARS WITH SALTED CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE.

For a day and a night, the wind moved like it had to blow to keep the earth turning. It was not particularly cold or warm, not a sultry Santa Ana or whatever other sexily named wind that blows in…
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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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MATCHA & JASMINE MACARON ICE CREAM SANDWICHES + A GIVEAWAY!

If I had to boil everything in life down to just three things—three things I really believed in with my whole heart—I might settle on love, flowers, and ice cream sandwiches. Matcha macaron and jasmine green tea ice cream sandwiches,…
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