{"id":11940,"date":"2010-09-09T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2010-09-07T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T19:18:12","slug":"guest-post-brandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/09\/guest-post-brandi\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Brandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hi gang!\u00a0 I&#8217;m off to <a href=\"http:\/\/foodblogforum-atlanta.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta this weekend to enjoy a foodie seminar put on by Food Blog Forum<\/a>.\u00a0 If you think you cannot live without me, you can follow my adventures via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/offhercork\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try and tweet when I get a chance! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While I&#8217;m out<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> drinking, eating, and socializing<\/span> learning how to better improve my blog and recipes, I do have some awesome guest posts lined up for you!<a href=\"http:\/\/branappetit.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a> <\/em> First up is Brandi from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/branappetit.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bran Appetit<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just Peachy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the end of summer inching closer, I\u2019m trying to enjoy as many peaches as possible. If you have access to local peaches, I hope you\u2019re buying as many as I am each week! It\u2019s tough for me to save enough to actually make a dessert \u2013 we eat them with breakfast and lunch, as snacks, and in crisps and crumbles when we can.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Brandi_post2.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11941\" title=\"Peaches \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Brandi_post2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Brandi_post2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Brandi_post2-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Some of our favorite ways to enjoy perfectly ripe summer peaches:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Diced into oatmeal<\/li>\n<li> Mixed with yogurt and nuts<\/li>\n<li> Sliced on a sandwich with turkey\/ham, spinach, and red onion<\/li>\n<li> Layered with almond butter in a wrap<\/li>\n<li> Diced and mixed with berries and melon<\/li>\n<li> Tossed in a salad with goat or feta cheese<\/li>\n<li> Baked in a breakfast bread pudding<\/li>\n<li> Sandwiched inbetween sliced bread with jam or cinnamon-sugar butter and made into French Toast<\/li>\n<li> Sliced onto hot pancakes or waffles with yogurt, nut butter, and\/or maple syrup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While all of these are delicious options, my favorite thing to make with fresh summer fruit is a juicy crisp or crumble.<br \/>\nI made this Peach and Blackberry Crisp earlier this summer, and we devoured it! In fact, my husband didn\u2019t even know it was a vegan recipe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brandi_post1.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11942\" title=\"Brandi's Peach Blackberry Crisp \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brandi_post1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brandi_post1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brandi_post1.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Peach Blackberry Crisp<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 2-3 cups blackberries<\/li>\n<li> 3 peaches, peeled and diced<\/li>\n<li> 1 Tbsp sugar<\/li>\n<li> 1 Tbsp flour<\/li>\n<li> 2\/3 cups oats<\/li>\n<li> 1\/4 cup whole wheat flour<\/li>\n<li> 1\/4 cup brown sugar<\/li>\n<li> 1\/4 canola oil<\/li>\n<li> 1\/4 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li> 1\/2 tsp cinnamon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 350.<\/li>\n<li> Toss fruit with 1 Tbsp sugar and 1 Tbsp flour and pour into greased 8\u00d78 baking dish.<\/li>\n<li> In separate bowl, mix the oats, flour, sugar, oil, salt, and cinnamon together until combined.<\/li>\n<li> Spread crisp topping over the fruit.<\/li>\n<li>Bake 35-45 minutes or until the topping is browned and fruit is bubbling around the edges.<\/li>\n<li>Serve. Preferably with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t found local farms or farmer\u2019s markets nearby, make sure to check out LocalHarvest.org! You may be surprised what local foods are right around the corner.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks Brandi!\u00a0 With the end of summer approaching, this is a great way to use up some of the last of the summer fruit!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 I&#8217;m off to Atlanta this weekend to enjoy a foodie seminar put on by Food Blog Forum.\u00a0 If you think you cannot live without me, you can follow my adventures via Twitter.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try and tweet when I get a chance! While I&#8217;m out drinking, eating, and socializing learning how to better improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,83,51],"tags":[37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-36A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}