One of my favorite new (to me) blogs is My New Roots. Sarah is a vegetarian chef and her posts always have the most gorgeous photographs and delicious recipes. She also is great at explaining how to prepare her recipes, or why she does certain things (like soak nuts). I recently came across one of [...]

Quinoa is a staple in our kitchen year-round, but especially for the week of Passover. I’ll eat it as a hot cereal, or as the star ingredient for dinner. My mom asked me to bring a quinoa dish for her Passover Seder, so I googled around for a new recipe and came up with this [...]

  Usually I don’t use this little blog space for public service announcement purposes, but for this one, I think it’s worthwhile, because it might ultimately help save lives.   Heart heath is very important to me, both as a dietitian but also personally. I sadly never got to know my grandfather who passed away [...]

Out of nowhere, I woke up this morning with the body and skin aches, throbbing headache, and all around crumminess. But it’s Sunday and it’s Passover! I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make THE Passover breakfast: Matzo Brei. Fortunately it’s quick to make…even my delicious veganized version: Ingredients: 1/2 container silken tofu 2 Tbsp [...]

This may just be the least nutritious food you’ll ever see on the blog. Ever. (See exhibit A) But it’s all about balance, right? Especially for the holidays. Funk and I are having our own Passover seder for two tomorrow and I wanted to make a sweet treat. Most Passover foods are loaded with eggs, [...]

When looking for some meals to make for the week, I kept pulling up curry recipes. I must be in an Indian food phase (works for me!) because I have two on the docket for the next few days. The first one I made is this Indian Spiced Eggplant and Cauliflower Stew from Eating Well. [...]

The picture of this gorgeous looking purple cabbage salad caught my eye as soon as I received the recipe email in my inbox from Vegetarian Times. I made a big container of this salad, nearly doubling all of the ingredients so we’d have a big batch. The great thing about most of the ingredients is [...]

I love cold grain salads, and Funk prefers them hot. What’s a gal to do? Make them the way I like ‘em. Hey! I’m the chef of the house! If he wants it hot, he knows where to find the microwave. This salad, though, is best cold or at room temperature and it is bursting [...]

A few weeks ago, Funk and I took a Spring Break trip to Puerto Rico! It’s kind of funny to say we were even on Spring Break, being 8 years (yikes!) out of college, but Funk had break from MBA school, and I was on break at the same time from the college where I [...]

This is one of those dishes that I really wish I had someone to share that first bite with so we could high-five each other about how amazing it tastes. Two nights a week Funk is geeking out at MBA school, and on those nights I usually just make myself a massive salad, or a [...]