This easy-enough-for-a-weeknight lamb ragu is the perfect rich, hearty, soul-warming meal! I'm not the most organized person. For years, I stored all my important documents (passport, checks that needed to be deposited, social security card) in a vintage napkin holder on my dresser. When I do ...
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Lemon Yogurt
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 ...
Chilled Tomato Beet Soup with Pesto
If you like gazpacho, you will love this chilled tomato beet soup swirled with pesto. Quick, healthy, and vegan, it's the perfect light warm weather meal! Some of my fondest memories of my early twenties in Brooklyn involve having lunch with my friend Blythe. We were both waitresses at the time, ...
Whole Wheat Spaghetti with No Cook Tomato Sauce
This simple, healthy pasta dish makes the perfect summer meal when it's just too hot to cook! For years, I really dug in my heels about pasta with no-cook tomato sauce. It just looked so ho-hum to me. A bowl of plain pasta with some chopped tomatoes thrown in? How good could that be? I turned ...
Caprese Roasted Broccoli
Tender-crisp roasted broccoli, juicy fresh tomatoes, and gooey mozzarella cheese, plus a sprinkle of fresh basil make this the perfect easy weeknight side dish! I've written before about Alex and my eating habits before we met. Basically, I was content to dine on a big salad every night, and on ...
Green Goddess Egg Salad
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 ...
Cantaloupe Gazpacho with Crispy Prosciutto
This fresh, healthy, gluten-free cantaloupe gazpacho is the perfect warm weather soup! I can't believe May is almost half over! Where has the time gone? I recently went to Old Navy to buy Owen some new pants (all of a sudden like 75% of his pants are too small and fit him like capris, it's ...
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 ...
