When Heidi Swanson’s 101 Cookbooks recipe for Miso Sesame Winter Squash arrived in my inbox, I clicked over to it right away. I already had all of the sauce ingredients on hand, and only needed tofu and winter squash to complete the recipe. But last night when I finally mustered up the energy to make [...]

Phew! It is a hectic week over here in the Funk household. I have something scheduled every night this week and Funk finished up an intense week-long MBA class before we jet off to Colorado to visit friends of the long weekend. So I knew dinners would have to be easy this week, and planned [...]

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 [...]

Growing up, trips to McDonalds were limited to the few times each year we’d drive from Massachusetts to Long Island to visit my grandparents and stop for lunch. That was fine with me, since I don’t remember being one of those kids who begged and pleaded to go to the golden arches (at least I [...]

The other night, I wasn’t in the mood to follow a recipe. I didn’t even do my usual online perusing for recipe inspiration, or bring my camera into the kitchen for potential blog-worthy material. I was flying solo with Funk in his night class, and just knew I was in the mood for massaged kale [...]

This guest post is brought to you by Nicole, who I have bean, er, been friends with since grad school! She keeps nudging me to try dried beans, and this post might push me to do it. I read food blogs and watch the Food Network and I’ve been noticing an unfortunate trend in the [...]

Every few weeks when we grocery shop, Funk will toss some fake chick’n strips in the cart. I’m not a huge fan of these, as they’re pretty processed, but he likes them for their convenience and will incorporate them into a quick meal when I’m off kitchen duty. But when I got an email in [...]

Usually I have my ducks in a row when it comes to meal planning. We usually go major grocery shopping on Saturday or Sunday, though we’ve been known to go to Trader Joes three days in a row. What? They may have a new product we need to know about. Usually I’ll click through my [...]

Usually around lunchtime I start thinking about dinner, if I haven’t already thought about it days in advance. But the other day around lunchtime, since I had no set idea for what to make for dinner, I started googling around and Tweeting asking for some creative tempeh ideas. Usually I’ll marinade it in some sort [...]