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Hey there! I'm Aimee. Loody is the nickname my grandma gave me when I was little and would go to her house to bake cookies and make jam. What you'll find here are moments from our life alongside a collection of simple, feel good recipes made in our Vermont kitchen. Our recipes are approachable, seasonal whenever possible, and mostly plant based. Thanks for stopping by! Read More…

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NO MORE BORING SALADS. EVER.👏🏽 . I am up for

NO MORE BORING SALADS. EVER.👏🏽
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I am up for the challenge when people say salads are boring or just a side dish. With a little creativity, a salad can definitely be an exciting and delish main course!
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Here’s my template for a great salad with a few of my favorite mix-ins:
🥬Start with a variety of greens (kale, spinach, spicy mix, etc)
🍅Add a rainbow of veggies (red bell peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots)
🐟Add protein (nuts, quinoa, pulses, wild-caught salmon)
🧅Add some crunch! (Kohlrabi, beets, crumbled rice cakes)
🌽Add something grilled (trust me on this, mixing warm and cold is GOOD like zucchini, corn on the cob or sweet potato)
🥑Add something surprising (blueberries, avocado, seaweed, goji berries)
🍋Drizzle homemade dressing on top (lemon tahini, honey Dijon)
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What are your favorite salad mix-ins?

We heard it was national/world/hallmark-made-up-in

We heard it was national/world/hallmark-made-up-in-cahoots-with-hershey chocolate day🍫. So here is a chocolate cake with fluffy pb filling and homemade pb cups. Because why fight it? A day that celebrates chocolate is a-okay in my book.👏🏽#worldchocolateday

roses are red, violets are blue. kale is a dark le

roses are red,
violets are blue.
kale is a dark leafy green,
and hella good for you.
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The amount of kale our tiny backyard garden is putting out this summer has been AMAZING. I like to blend kale into my morning protein smoothies and chopped up in my eggy sweet potato scrambles. Loki likes to use it to pee on..KIDDING (maybe). But seriously, even if you’re getting veggies from your backyard, wash that shit🚿.

End of the long weekend. Anyone else having some s

End of the long weekend. Anyone else having some serious Sunday scaries?🙃
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I usually try to plan something fun for Sunday evenings to keep those scaries at bay, buuuut I’m feeling a little too sun burnt and watermelon water-logged to do anything other than Netflix and Chill with Loki. And if you’re also sick of leftover veggie kabobs, salsa, watermelon, and hot dogs...how about cinnamon rolls for dinner? They definitely help with those Sunday scaries.
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These are my vegan cinnamon rolls made with homemade oat milk. I don’t like to frost these (too much sugar) - I prefer to drizzle on a little maple syrup. And dang, they’re good. You can get the recipe on my blog💛

GIVEAWAY✨. I stopped buying and using single use

GIVEAWAY✨. I stopped buying and using single use plastic baggies quite some time ago, but up until about a year ago I was using old mason jars for stashing snacks and leftovers, buuuut it’s kind of hard to put a PBJ in a mason jar🤓. Enter @stasherbag - I use these daily and my favorite part is you can just stick them in the dishwasher, no hand washing needed. The teenie pocket Stasher is mine and Loki’s favorite size for taking snacks on our adventures. Almonds in mine and pup treats in his.
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To celebrate summertime adventures, I’m giving away 2 sets of pocket sized Stasher bags. 1 for you and 1 for a friend👏🏽.
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To enter, follow me @loodyskitchen and tag a friend in this post. Each additional comment and tag counts as an entry.
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Giveaway is open to US residents only and will run from Friday, July 3rd through Monday, July 6th 3pm ET. Winner will be announced Monday evening and will be contacted via DM and tagged in the original post. Both Stasher bag sets will be sent to a single winner to share with a friend of their choice💛.
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Not sponsored or affiliated with Instagram or Stasher Bags. I just really love Stasher’s products and want to help end the use of single use plastic baggies🌎. **giveaway items are clean and safely stored at our home, not what you see pictures here on our beach adventure

Homemade pesto is probably my favorite sauce of al

Homemade pesto is probably my favorite sauce of all time🌿👏🏽. I put it on EVERYTHING. roasted potatoes, veggie kabobs, grain bowls, sammies, pasta (obviously pasta, but this is probably my least favorite since pasta makes me feel pretty dumpy, but it’s the hub’s favorite so we like to make him happy).
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I make mine vegan and with whatever nuts I have on hand. My favorite is cashew followed by pecan (no walnuts in this house, they make me itchy).
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I try to freeze as many batches as I can throughout the summer, with intentions of having homemade pesto all winter but it typically only makes it to fall at the rate we eat it😜.

I made this cherry galette with cherries from our

I made this cherry galette with cherries from our tree in the backyard🍒. I still have to pinch myself sometimes because we are so 👏🏽freaking 👏🏽fortunate. Yeah, Jesse and I both work our asses off, but we also truly have been blessed in this life together.
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This is our second summer is our house and I have LOVED seeing all the stuff pop up in our garden and am thrilled our cherry tree yielded another little harvest this year. Every morning, Loki and I do a little loop of the yard to say hello to all the new plant babies and flowers. Life is GOOD.
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Anyways, this galette was ready for the oven in less than 10 mins because I keep pie dough in the freezer just for this reason. And DAMN it was tasty🍒🥧.

“Eating in-season is always in-style.” While I

“Eating in-season is always in-style.” While I love this sentiment, this is such a privileged statement.
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We snagged some of the good stuff this week in our CSA pick: rainbow chard, Easter egg radish, Magda zucchini, kohlrabi, diva and marketmore cucumbers, and a dozen eggs. Our CSA comes from a certified organic farm and we will happily pay a little bit more for produce that supports our local economy and is just better for our planet AND our bodies. But I fully recognize that eating this way is not accessible to most people, both geographically and financially. And that sucks. I wish good, locally produced food was not only readily available but also AFFORDABLE to everyone📣👏🏽.
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If you want to read a great book on how our food system is a public health issue, Food Fix by Dr. Mark Hyman is a great start. In his book he emphasizes that fixing our food system is actually the less expensive solution to fixing many of our public health issues like chronic disease.
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Do you participate in a CSA? Thoughts on how to make good quality food more accessible?🥦🥕🥒🍅

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