Crispy roasted Brussels sprouts are heaped over a delicious yogurt sauce spiked with lemon and fresh mint. This dish is easy enough for a weeknight, yet elegant enough for any holiday table! Is there such a thing as fall cleaning, as opposed to spring cleaning? In the past couple of weeks, I've ...
Trail Mix Frozen Yogurt Bark
This cold, creamy, crunchy, salty, and chocolatey trail mix frozen yogurt bark is the perfect healthy, whole food snack! If you regularly read my blog (or for that matter, if you know me IRL), then you know that I love to run. I've completed one marathon (NYC 2005) and dozens of ...
Ginger Pineapple Lassi + an Amazon Giveaway!
This ginger pineapple lassi is a great way to spice up your morning smoothie routine. It's made with only six simple ingredients, and packs a megadose of calcium and vitamin C! Fresh ginger is one of those ingredients that is A) annoyingly missing from my fridge just when I need it ...
Strawberry Chia Fools with Yogurt Whipped Cream
These simple and delicious strawberry chia fools are topped with a honey Greek yogurt whipped cream. Serve them for breakfast or dessert! You know that old Jerry Seinfeld joke about how the handicapped parking space is the mirage of parking lots? ("Somehow, everybody missed it!") I feel like I ...
Greek Yogurt Blue Cheese Dressing
We are moving on Sunday (eeek!) and a few weeks ago, while running house-related errands, we stopped for a quick bite at a family-friendly pub in our new neighborhood. Owen had chicken fingers and fries, and Alex and I shared two beers and a plate of wings. By which I mean, Alex ate a whole ...
Eggs Florentine Grain Bowls with Yogurt Hollandaise
My friend Molly first introduced me to eggs Florentine years ago, when we used to regularly have brunch at the Cornelia Street Cafe in the West Village. I was never a fan of eggs Benedict (I just don't see the appeal of Canadian bacon at all. Tell me, am I missing something?), but eggs ...
Caesar Salad with Chipotle Greek Yogurt Dressing
Let's add a little spice to our salad bowl, shall we? Do you have a bad boyfriend restaurant? One to which you keep returning, even though it never treats (or feeds) you right? There is a restaurant near where we live. It's right on the Hudson River, with views of the New York City skyline ...
Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Bowls with Basil Yogurt Dressing
This might be the healthiest thing you will ever eat. No joke. The other day, our fridge was full but empty at the same time. You know what I mean. It always stresses me out, because on the one hand, I don't want to go to the supermarket when we have a lot of food in the house, but on the ...
Feta and Kale Dip
A few weeks ago, my boss showed up at work with an enormous bag of kale for me. Evidently, her CSA kept piling it on, shipment after shipment, and she was running out of things to do with it. Her freezer was full of kale pesto. She'd been eating kale salads most nights. She had even tried throwing ...
