All Recipes — Amanda Frederickson

Nectarine and Tomato Salad

Last week I had the chance to check out a dinner at 18 reasons. 18 reasons is a great organization which has cooking classes and generally supports the food movement happening here in the Bay Area. The reason I went though was to enjoy a feast by two amazing bloggers/cooks/artists - Kimberly Hasselbrink from The Year in Food and Erin Gleeson from The Forest Feast. They both have beautiful blogs and have come out with cookbooks recently. They joined forces in creating a "Vibrant Feast" - 4 courses of fresh, delicious, vegetarian and gluten-free dishes. The menu included an amazing roasted red pepper soup, as well a zucchini pasta dish with green goddess dressing and finished with a perfect summer fruit crisp.

Food, Gluten-Free, Uncategorized, VegetarianAmanda FredericksonJuly 22, 20141 Comment

Stone Fruit Salad with Burrata

You know what the secret to a delicious salad is? (Haven't you always wanted to know the answer to that burning question?) Adding something sweet. I know that kind of defeats the purpose of a healthy salad, but try it - everything will taste better. Can I point out how popular spinach salad with raspberry vinaigrette was in the 90s? Exactly. Now I am not calling for sugar but a little honey in the vinaigrette didn't hurt anyone. What about adding fruit into your salad? Yeah? Neah? I think it is a complete yeah - especially with all of the delicious stone fruit that is coming into season. Combine that with some creamy and dreamy burrata and you are in salad heaven. This stone fruit salad with burrata will make you completely forget that you are actually eating something healthy. I know that is a big claim but try it and I promise you will love it.

Food, Gluten-Free, SaladAmanda FredericksonJune 17, 2014salad, stonefruit, cherries, apricots, summer5 Comments

Raw Cauliflower Rice Bowl

I am pretty sure that there is no one out there that loves carbs more than me. Pizzas, bagels, bread - basically any kind of carb is totally my jam. But being around food all day long and trying to rein it in a little bit when I am at home, I find myself making salads. The same old boring salad. So in an attempt to kick it up a notch I threw in some raw cauliflower to trick myself into thinking I was eating rice when it was cauliflower. And it worked! Here is my

Food, Gluten-Free, veganAmanda FredericksonJune 04, 20144 Comments

Date Milkshake

Luke was recently in Abu Dhabi and brought back the most beautiful Iranian dates. He knows me well enough that a) when he travels without me, he must bring me back presents as a form of restitution and b) it always has to be food. So in an effort to make up for the fact he went on an exotic vacation without me, he brought me some beautiful dates. And boy are they yummy. Someone said to me recently that dates are going to be the next hot food. You heard it here first folks. The next hot food. They are great natural sweeteners and might be the best appetizer ever with you stuff them with cheese and wrap them in bacon. But today I am sharing my new favorite way to eat dates - a date milkshake.

Dessert, Food, Gluten-FreeAmanda FredericksonMay 09, 20141 Comment

Lemon Olive Oil Cake

California has been in a major drought recently and thankfully over the past couple of weeks we have gotten some serious rain. Although I love when it pours here, because it rarely does (not like it does in Florida) I get a little stir crazy when stuck inside. So last weekend during another downpour I decided to try a cake that I have wanted to experiment with for a while - a lemon olive oil cake. I know olive oil sounds like a weird ingredient to put in a cake but it made the cake light, delicious and moist. Plus the grassy flavor of the oil matched perfectly with the tart sweetness of the Meyer lemons.

Dessert, Food, Gluten-FreeAmanda FredericksonMarch 07, 20147 Comments

California Fish Tacos

Last week I got to spend a couple days at Alt Summit Salt Lake City, the mecca of all blogging. It is a three-day whirlwind conference where you get to meet amazing bloggers and brands, as well as hear some incredible speakers, including the Founder of Pinterest, Brit from Brit & Co, as well as Christy Turlington. (I seriously love her. She asked me to take a picture for her and I almost exploded with excitement). All of that is to say that it was amazing and totally exhausting, but feeling inspired to create some new "features" and content for this site. So when I got back to California I was craving some healthy comfort food. For me that is fish tacos. Healthy, tasty, and nutrious. These fish tacos helped me recover from the whirlwind trip and the new-found whiskey habit I picked up there as well(don't ask).

Food, Gluten-FreeAmanda FredericksonJanuary 27, 20143 Comments

Flourless Hazelnut Chocolate Cake

Dessert, Food, Gluten-FreeAmanda FredericksonJanuary 17, 20144 Comments

Herbed Mushrooms and Polenta

Luke was out-of-town this past weekend and when he goes out-of-town it is my chance to make all the food that he hates and refuses to eat. One of the foods that he hates are mushrooms. He has a total and complete aversion to mushrooms for some reason. But I love them. So while he was out of the house, I made a big pot of herbed mushrooms over some creamy polenta.

Food, Gluten-Free, VegetarianAmanda FredericksonJanuary 15, 2014polenta, mushrooms, herbed mushrooms, vegetarian3 Comments

New Year Noodle Soup

Food, Gluten-Free, VegetarianAmanda FredericksonJanuary 09, 20148 Comments

Salted Caramel Candies

Every year for the holidays I give away holiday candy. I am not big on presents (sorry but it is true) I just don't get the whole giving someone something because you feel like you have to. Yes, Bah Humbug. But I do enjoy cooking for friends and family and then giving those away as presents. So over the next couple of weeks leading up to the holidays, I am going to share my go-to candy recipes so you all can try your hand at making them for your loved ones.

This is the perfect recipe to start with, salted caramel candies. Ooey gooey caramels, topped with a little sea salt, it s the perfect treat for the holidays. Also, who doesn't love salted caramel?

Food, Gluten-FreeAmanda FredericksonDecember 02, 2013candy, holiday gifts7 Comments

Soba Noodles with Cucumber & Avocado

I recently attended a soba making class taught by the queen of soba, Sonoko Sakai. Sonoko runs the website Common Grains, and is a food writer, soba maker and all around Japanese food superstar based in Los Angeles.

Food, Gluten-FreeAmanda FredericksonSeptember 12, 2013healthy, japanese, soba5 Comments

Fig Chutney

I recently had an iteration of this chutney and fell in love. This chutney is life changing. It is the ideal condiment for most meats. It is a little sour, a little sweet - the perfect thing to cut through a heavy meal like Thanksgiving . So when thinking about Thanksgiving Dinner I thought maybe fig chutney should be the new cranberry sauce.

Food, Gluten-FreeAmanda FredericksonAugust 27, 2013figs, summertime2 Comments

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