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Happy Birthday to Me! Pumpkin Spice Cake with Coconut Vanilla Icing and Roasted Hazelnuts

Happy Birthday to Me! Pumpkin Spice Cake with Coconut Vanilla Icing and Roasted Hazelnuts

I know what you’re thinking, but it’s my birthday. And this year, I just felt like doing something crazy – like making a gigantic, over-the-top, totally indulgent cake…that’s healthy. You know it, I’m wild. This wouldn’t be My New Roots if I poured a whole…

Plum Yummy Galette

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you will be very familiar with my food-foraging obsession. Free, organic produce I can pick myself? What’s not to love? So it will come as no surprise that at the family reunion this past weekend, my…

Totally Baked: Hemp Protein Granola Bars

First off, no. You won’t get high. I promise that no matter how many Hemp Protein Granola Bars you scarf down, the only thing you’ll be feeling is really, really full (and happy, of course). Unbeknownst to many people, hemp is one of the oldest…