A while back, someone from Ruth’s Foods contacted me asking if I’d like to try their Chia Goodness products. I’ve been incorporating chia seeds into my diet pretty regularly in the past year, especially in smoothies, and as an egg replacer, so I was eager to try them. (1 Tbsp chia seeds soaked in 3 [...]

It’s rare I make a recipe twice. There are just too many good ones out there to try! Even Funk noticed when we sat down to dinner last night and commented, “We’ve had this before, right? You never make a recipe twice. And…it tastes like pizza.” Which is pretty much exactly the conversation we had [...]

Recently I’ve had tomatoes on the brain. I’ve been craving things like tomato soup and veggie lasagna (with loads of chunky tomatoes) now that it’s so cold out, and I’ve officially stopped buying fresh tomatoes at the grocery store until they’re back in season. There’s nothing worse than mealy, dry, colorless “fresh” tomatoes in the [...]

I was recently invited to Forum by Bard Valley Medjool Dates and their spokesperson, Laura Hartung. I was in right away since I love the new Forum (used to be Vox but looks even better inside!), loooooove dates (especially adding them to my banana oat smoothies) and know Laura from some corporate wellness work we’ve [...]

Happy Hanukah / Hanukkah / Chanukah / Chanukkah / Hannukkah! However you spell it, if you celebrate, I hope your 8 days are warm and bright. *Up until this year, I had never made real Hanukah latkes from scratch. One year I made Eating Well’s muffin tin latkes, but baked latkes just aren’t the same. [...]

One of my biggest peeves as a dietitian is when naturally nutritious foods are made out to be the bad guys simply because of the way they’re prepared or what other ingredients they’re paired with. Case in point: potatoes. As is, they’re loaded with fiber, potassium, and vitamin C. If you drench and fry them [...]

This month’s Recipe Redux theme was “Putting the P(ea) in Potluck” and we were instructed to use legumes in a party-friendly recipe or festive dish. I guess I misread the challenge because instead of making a festive dish, I had my eye on Happy Herbivore’s Chickpea Noodle Soup recipe, and thought it’d be fun to [...]

Lately I’ve been eating oats – lots and lots of oats. Usually I’ll make a humongous batch of steel cut oatmeal in the rice cooker made with coconut milk, nuts and dried fruit so I can pop it in the micro for a quick, hot breakfast each morning. For this meal, I made something savory [...]

Things got a little hot in my kitchen the other night. Not only did I crank up the oven to roast the heck out of my broccoli and cauliflower made simply with olive oil, salt and pepper, but I also got a little firey-hot making some buffalo tofu. I had a block of tofu defrosting [...]

For the past few weeks, I’ve been blogging about recipes I created using Marzetti Simply Dressed all natural salad dressing. I was lucky enough to sample some of these fantastic dressings (made with ingredients I recognize!) and now have a go-to dressing to not only use, but also recommend to my clients. Now I want [...]