Love & Lemons Pop of Flavor is out now!

My new cookbook, Love & Lemons Pop of Flavor, is now available wherever books are sold. A New York Times best seller, it's a celebration of cooking what you crave. Get your copy today!

Hey friends, exciting news! My new cookbook Love & Lemons Pop of Flavor is out now, and it’s a New York Times best seller. Grab your copy wherever books are sold! What’s Pop of Flavor about? Pop of Flavor is a celebration of cravings. Instead of organizing it into chapters by meal type, the chapters are divided by texture and flavor so that you can cook what you crave: Saucy Spicy Crunchy Herby Tangy Sweet I started working on this book when my son Ollie was about 2 years old. I’m sure many of you can relate—it was a time when it felt…

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are soft, moist, and warmly spiced. Made in 1 bowl and ready in 30 minutes, they're a delicious, easy fall treat!

fall / desserts

These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are one of the first treats I bake every fall. They’re delicious, with a soft, cakey texture and perfectly spiced pumpkin flavor. And better yet, they’re easy to make. These pumpkin chocolate chip cookies come together in one bowl (without a mixer!) and are ready to eat in under 30 minutes. What’s not to love? I originally published this recipe without an egg, but after making it again recently, I felt that an egg and some baking powder would actually improve it. Three tests later, and I couldn’t be happier with this updated version. These…

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Butternut Squash Gnocchi

This butternut squash gnocchi recipe is a delicious fall dinner, filled with sage, thyme, an apple cider vinegar dressing, and creamy dollops of ricotta. It's easy to make on a sheet pan!

fall / weeknight

I make this butternut squash gnocchi recipe every single fall. It’s like autumn on a baking sheet, thanks to the hearty potato gnocchi, butternut squash, earthy sage, red onion, and kale leaves that crisp up beautifully in the oven. I toss it all in a sweet and tangy apple cider vinegar dressing and finish it with creamy dollops of ricotta cheese before serving. Easy to make and packed with the best flavors of the season, it’s everything I want on a fall weeknight. I hope you love this butternut squash gnocchi too! How to Make Butternut Squash Gnocchi When I was…

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October Cooking Club – A Cookbook Sneak Peek!

Join the Love & Lemons Cooking Club! This month, we're celebrating the launch of our new cookbook with a sneak peek soup that's perfect for fall.

Hey friends, happy October! We’re changing up our regular cooking club programming this month because our new cookbook Pop of Flavor comes out on October 13! To celebrate, we’re making a sneak peek recipe from the book, Chunky Veggie Soup with Rosemary & Parsley. It’s filled with leeks, delicata squash, carrots, potatoes, and more, so it’s a perfect way to take advantage of all the gorgeous fall veggies in season. Find the recipe below! To enter this month’s challenge, make the recipe and email me a photo of it. If you’d also like to get exclusive bonus content, make sure to attach your Pop…

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Roasted Acorn Squash

Learn how to cook acorn squash with this easy recipe! Roasted with olive oil, maple syrup, and herbs, it's a simple, delicious fall or holiday side dish.

fall / side dishes

This roasted acorn squash recipe is my favorite way to cook acorn squash. It’s a delicious, easy side dish for the holidays, Thanksgiving, or any fall meal. Halved and baked in the oven with olive oil and maple syrup, the squash is perfectly tender and beautifully caramelized, with a sweet and savory flavor that I absolutely love. A sprinkle of fresh herbs takes it over the top. If you’re learning how to cook acorn squash for the first time, this recipe is a great one to start with. It highlights this fall veggie’s best qualities—its creamy texture and sweet flavor—but that’s…

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French Onion Pasta

This French onion pasta recipe is easy to make in one pot with simple ingredients. It's like French onion soup in pasta form—rich, comforting, and packed with umami flavor!

pasta / weeknight

This French onion pasta recipe is a perfect cozy dinner for a chilly night. Inspired by French onion soup, it stars rich, savory caramelized onions, tangy white wine, and plenty of Gruyère cheese. The cheese melts into the broth-based sauce, creating a lightly creamy, deeply flavorful coating for the pasta. Easy to make in one pot with simple ingredients, this French onion pasta is on repeat in my kitchen every fall. I hope you love it as much as I do! French Onion Pasta Ingredients Here’s what you’ll need to make this French onion pasta recipe: Pasta, of course! Mezzi rigatoni…

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Pumpkin Soup

This pumpkin soup recipe is smooth, creamy, and delicious, packed with curry spices and rich pumpkin flavor. It works beautifully with fresh roasted pumpkin or canned pumpkin puree!

fall / soups

This pumpkin soup recipe is smooth, creamy, and full of rich flavor from pumpkin, coconut milk, and warming curry spices. I love to make it with fresh roasted pumpkin in the fall, which gives it an intensely sweet flavor and almost velvety texture. But when I don’t have time to roast a squash from scratch, I make this pumpkin soup with canned pumpkin instead. It works beautifully too, and the soup comes together about twice as fast. On a fall weeknight, I can’t argue with that. 🙂 Pumpkin Soup Ingredients Most of the ingredients in this pumpkin soup recipe are pantry…

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Roasted Delicata Squash

If you've never roasted delicata squash, get ready to fall in love! It's a breeze to prepare, and it has a rich, creamy texture and delicious sweet flavor.

fall / side dishes

If you’ve never roasted delicata squash before, get ready to fall in love! When winter squash appears at farmers markets and grocery stores each year, I’m excited to get my hands on all of it: acorn squash, butternut squash, spaghetti squash, and more. But delicata squash is my favorite by far. Nicknamed the “sweet potato squash,” it has a sweet, velvety flesh that caramelizes beautifully when it’s roasted in the oven. But that’s not all. Thanks to its small size and thin, edible skin, it’s super easy to prepare. That’s right—you don’t have to peel it! In fact, the combination…

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Pumpkin Overnight Oats

These pumpkin overnight oats are my favorite fall breakfast! They're creamy, warmly spiced, and naturally sweetened with maple syrup. Mix up a jar in just 5 minutes!

fall / breakfast

I make this pumpkin overnight oats recipe on repeat for breakfast every fall. The oats are creamy, warmly spiced, and lightly sweet, thanks to a teaspoon of maple syrup. They’re practically pumpkin pie in a jar. The ingredients in this recipe are simple—just oats, pumpkin puree, chia seeds, maple syrup, almond milk, and a few cozy spices. I love that I can mix them up in just 5 minutes and then let the fridge do the rest of the work overnight. In the morning, I top them off with coconut whipped cream and toasted pecans for the ultimate fall breakfast…

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Cottage Cheese Pancakes

Cottage cheese pancakes? You betcha! They're thick, fluffy, and packed with 7 grams of protein each. They have a delicious sweet vanilla flavor—you can't taste the cottage cheese!

breakfast / easy

This cottage cheese pancakes recipe is a delicious high-protein breakfast. Thanks to the cottage cheese and eggs, each pancake packs in 7 grams of protein! Better yet, the pancakes don’t actually taste like cottage cheese. Instead, they’re perfectly fluffy, moist, and filled with a lightly sweet vanilla flavor. Pass the maple syrup, please! I’ve been hesitant to use cottage cheese in sweet recipes ever since I tried cottage cheese cookie dough a few years ago (it was…not for me). But recently, I realized I’ve been adding cheese to pancakes for years in my lemon ricotta pancakes recipe. If I blended the…

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Roasted Sweet Potatoes

These oven roasted sweet potatoes have crisp, caramelized edges and tender centers. They're delicious as an easy side dish, in tacos, bowls, and more!

fall / cooking basics

These roasted sweet potatoes are one of my favorite side dishes. They’re easy to make in a hot oven with just olive oil, salt, and pepper, but they’re still so delicious. These roasted sweet potatoes are lightly crisp on the outside, tender in the middle, and full of sweet and savory flavor. I don’t know what it is about fall weather, but when the air gets cool and crisp, I start cooking sweet potatoes like crazy. I make baked sweet potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, and sweet potato soup. But this roasted sweet potato recipe is how I cook them most…

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