It’s the middle of January! I am already flagging on my New Year’s resolutions to eat healthy. Is that just me? It’s time for a delicious pick-me-up. And what is more delicious than a glut of hearty, colorful veggies, stirred into some slightly chewy, nutty quinoa? My good friend Sarah over at Well Dined agreed […]
Okay, so last time I told you about making my own pasta. Super yum! But this time, we should talk about delicious pasta sauce. Pasta sauce with sautéed cauliflower in it. And onions. And crushed red pepper. I’m hungry again just writing about it. This sauce is easy to make and uses a vegetable that […]
Guess what!? I got a pasta press for Christmas. (Excuse me, my engineer of a husband says it’s called an “extruder.” Let’s be specific here.) Let’s backtrack. A few years ago, I discovered food writing. One of the first books I read was Heat, after which I developed a snobby obsession with fresh pasta. If […]
So…round about this time last year I was making all these wonderful resolutions…several of them to do with eating healthier and exercising more. Did I succeed in accomplishing all of my goals? Like most years, my answer is no…but at least this year there was a very cute and cuddly reason I didn’t lose those […]
Apparently when I was a kid, I liked apples. (For those of you just tuning in…I am a bona fide fruit hater, so the apple thing is unusual.) I have no memory of this, but my parents swear I used to pinch apples that my dad had been eating, toddle away, and bring him back […]
Whoah. I walked out my front door this morning and actually shivered. Fall has officially arrived in my neighborhood! And as such, it is time to break out the warm, filling soup recipes. I have been wanting to make my own healthier version of broccoli cheddar soup for about a year now, and I am […]
Quinoa Bean Salad with Lemon-Basil Dressing
Are you wondering what to do with the last of the summer produce? I still find myself in the grocery store looking longingly at the tomatoes, even as I am getting super hyped about fall squash. So I decided to say goodbye to summer in style before the summer goodies completely lost their luster! This […]
You know what I need? More 10-minute dinner recipes. You know why? I am about to become a mother. And infants + complex meals = crazy, worn out mommies. Or so I’ve heard from every single mother of young children I know. With some trepidation, I have begun gearing up for the first few weeks […]
One day last week, I woke up and realized that there was no food in the house. I mean, sometimes there is no quick food in the house, nothing in the fridge that is ready to go. But on this morning, there was almost nothing. No cereal, no eggs, no butter, none of my favorite […]
I have been wanting to make black bean burgers for ages…but for some reason, I was a little afraid of them. You know how sometimes you can get in your head and convince yourself that a dish you’ve never tried is going to be really difficult to get right?… Well, I was completely off base […]