Green goddess dressing is the perfect way to punch up ordinary egg salad! Hi you guys! How was your 4th of July? We celebrated with lots of friends and family and LOTS of chocolate. Seriously. My sister-in-law and I miss communicated about dessert one night, and I made chocolate-covered ...
Quick and Easy Falafel Salad with Tahini Lime Dressing
This quick and simple, healthy vegetarian falafel salad is made with pantry staple ingredients. One of the things that Alex finds incredibly weird and funny about me is that I need to know in advance if I am going to eat something rich and heavy. When we were first dating, there were so ...
Coconut Sesame Noodles with Pineapple and Snap Peas
Sesame noodles are given a luxurious, tropical makeover with coconut milk and chunks of juicy fresh pineapple! Do you have a million open boxes of spaghetti in your pantry? I am forever forgetting whether or not we have pasta when I'm at the store, so I buy more and then discover that there are ...
Smashed Edamame Toast with Ricotta and Parmesan
This quick and simple smashed edamame toast is loaded with healthy veggie protein! When I started my food blog, I made a promise to myself that I would never do a post on avocado toast. Not that I don't love it (who doesn't?) but it's just so trendy, and do you really even need a recipe? Mash ...
Easy Baked Barbecue Chicken Meatballs
For those nights when you're craving barbecue flavor but just can't deal with the grill, these baked chicken meatballs make the perfect dinner! Full confession: I am totally grill-phobic. I'm sure I'm not the only one...right? We never had a grill in Brooklyn (for obvious reasons---we ...
Mexican Street Corn Tostadas
These simple, vegetarian and gluten-free tostadas are topped with a spicy black bean puree and piled high with creamy, cheesy Mexican street corn. In the summertime, New York is the land of a thousand street fairs. When we were living in Brooklyn, it seemed like every corner we turned, blocks ...
Easy Miso Mushroom Ramen
This vegetarian (with a vegan option) miso mushroom ramen is made with only 10 supermarket-friendly ingredients. Be sure to check out all the #FoodieMamas mushroom recipes at the end of this post! When did you have your first bowl of ramen? I remember my grandmother feeding me Oodles of ...
Spaghetti Frittata with Turkey Meatballs
This delicious spaghetti frittata with turkey meatballs was a total family dinner fail. Let me explain. I made it because Owen's picky eating has reached new heights lately. Last Sunday he ate nothing but fruit. (He refused French toast, roast chicken, sliced avocado, and a cream cheese ...
Easy Baked Shrimp with Garlic and Herb Butter
One of the many things that make me feel like I've passed into a new age bracket is the magazine Real Simple. I am now a subscriber. How can that be? It doesn't seem like that long ago that I was fighting with my mom in CVS about whether I was old enough to read YM. And it feels like just yesterday ...
Chili Roasted Carrot and Avocado Tacos
Remember those taco kits everyone's mom bought in the 80s? The ones that came with a pouch of salsa, a packet of seasoning to mix with ground beef, and bordering-on-stale hard taco shells? I think we all need to take a minute to reflect and appreciate how far we've come, taco-wise. I mean, these ...
