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 [...]

Usually Funk is the one requesting homemade pizza around here, but this time around it was me. I couldn’t get a broccoli artichoke pizza off the brain! I started out with a premade ciabatta bread (that’s basically pizza crust) from Trader Joes. It’s already fully cooked when you buy it in the store, and pizza-pie [...]

Over the weekend I joined 11 other Massachusetts dietitians at a knife skills/cooking class, held at Artepicure cooking school in Somerville, MA. I’ve wanted to learn the proper way to slice and dice forever. I know that having the proper knife skills (and knives) is the key to quick and easy chopping, dicing, slicing, and [...]

I love twitter. There, I said it. I don’t care how nerdy it sounds. It has helped me make some amazing professional connections, even get some contract jobs, stay in touch with old friends, and make new friends. And on a day-to-day basis, I learn so much from the nearly thousand tweeps I follow. Sometimes [...]

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to attend a farmer’s market tour in Cambridge and a cooking class with Chef Susannah Locketti, who was a contestant on season 1 of The Next Food Network Star! I was invited by I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter and along with my friend and fellow dietitian Jenny, I had a [...]

This past weekend, Elizabeth and I packed our (day) bags and headed out to visit Jess for a little Stay-cation day of R & R & Food. Obviously. What do 2 dietitians and 1 RD-to-be like to do for fun? Hit up Chili and Salsa festivals in New Hampshire, of course. We went to a hoppin’ [...]

People have been telling me I have the best luck lately. I don’t know why. I mean, I guess, considering I won us a trip to Italy and our wedding invitations in the same week, but given some recent injuries, I feel like the unluckiest person on earth. And then I won again and I’m [...]

I’ve never liked tacos. I don’t get their appeal. You have to hold them at a funny angle so the food doesn’t spill out. The soft ones are mushy, and the hard ones crack and crumble. I’ve just never liked tacos. Or so I thought… Last weekend we were at Nicole’s beautiful beach wedding in [...]