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Crumblin' Down

I love pie but I'm not a fan of pie crusts, and besides that I'm terrified of making my own dough I've learned how to make my own crusts and they're a pain in my ass. It's crumbles, then, and thankfully this crumble is where it's at. Seriously. I've made more of them in less time than I care to admit. Inspired by this lovely recipe , but of course and as always modified to be awesome because that's how I roll. Cherries and apples are, so far, the best, but it's also amazingly good with strawberries, blueberries, and peaches. No news yet on what happens if you mix fruits, but you know? I'm willing to bet that it is delicious. Uploaded for Amy because she's dear to me. Edit: Updating this to double the recipe because 13x9" of pie is better than a square pan of pie, duh.  Crumblin' Down Ingredients Filling - 2 lb (32 oz)  fresh fruit of some kind - cherries, strawberries, blueberries, you get the picture. - If using ...

Badass Biker Chickpea Burgers

I've never been a huge fan of hamburgers, but they're one of those foods that I crave every once in a very long while. I found  this recipe  last weekend and got one of those rare burger cravings because, c'mon, chickpeas, sriracha sauce, and it's a burger? That's just got  to taste good. And oh, oh it did. The first time I made it, I legit fucked up and put everything together into the food processor, which yielded a really tasty sriracha sauce-flavored hummus. NOT what you want when you're trying to make burgers. To get them to work, I had to bread the stupid things before I could fry them. The next time, I did NOT fuck up, which meant we could have the burgers un-breaded, which also meant that the ingredients' flavors and textures were free to come through. And come through they did! This is the juiciest, most flavorful recipe I've ever encountered for a burger. We've made this recipe three times now - that's 18 burgers. Two were ...

No-Bowl Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal (with cranberries 'n raisins)

I love banana bread, don't get me wrong, but oatmeal's a thing I'm supposed to eat more of, and since oatmeal is gross and bread isn't, I thought, "why not make a banana bread oatmeal that I can take to work and eat with a fork so it doesn't feel like I'm eating oatmeal?" No not really. What actually happened was three bananas went too ripe to eat and I was too lazy to turn them into banana bread. Plus, I'd just discovered that I could make  no-bowl oatmeal  that tasted really really good, so I figured why not try it with fruit that's going to go bad? No Bowl Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal (with cranberries 'n raisins) Ingredients 1 2/3 cups whole oats, which you are going to pulverize into meal 1 tsp baking powder 1/3 cup packed brown sugar Couple'a shakes cinnamon 1/3 cup peanut butter (smooth or chunky, your call) 1 cup milk or soy milk 3 very ripe bananas 1 egg 1/4 cup applesauce OR 1/2 apple, cored ...

No-Bowl Oatmeal for Hungry Cyclists (and you, too)

Breakfast has long been argued to be the most important meal of the day. I won't argue that it isn't; it probably is. However, it's also the most difficult meal of the day, for me, because a) I don't like most traditional breakfast foods, b) getting out of bed early enough to cook/eat breakfast sucks in general and REALLY sucks in the winter, and c) I'm a cyclist, so eating a big meal and then riding to work makes me want to throw up, and packing up and carting most breakfast foods is either a pain in my ass or impossible. Furthermore, oatmeal with fruit is the perfect breakfast, but it's also oatmeal, which is disgusting, so I don't make it and don't like eating it when I DO make it, so there's that. Pretty much failure all around. This recipe came about because I had half a carton of strawberries and 3/4 of a carton of blueberries threatening to spoil in my 'fridge, but I was too lazy to bother making muffins. It's kind of kissing cousi...