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 [...]

Looking for a sweet treat to bring to holiday gatherings? Look no further. Guest blogger Jackie Clark’s Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups will no doubt be a big hit. I started as a vegetarian 15 years ago. Giving up meat was not hard for me at all. My beliefs in the fair treatment of animals [...]

Whenever I bake, which is rarely, I always try to take shortcuts or tweak the recipe to make it vegan. It usually fails. But I do have one goof-proof method to make an easy boxed cake mix even easier and much healthier: canned pumpkin. If you add one 14 ounce can of pumpkin to one [...]

I thought I’d squeeze one last ice cream recipe in before the weather turns to winter and we go from having frozen desserts to frozen sidewalks. I’m an ice-cream-in-the-summer-only gal, and usually only crave it between Memorial and Labor Days, but ever since I’ve perfected my coconut milk ice cream, I seem to have extended [...]

This past weekend Funk and I got to finally celebrate Jess‘ birthday, which was rain-delayed after hurricane Irene’s arrival a few weeks ago. Fun fact about our friendship with Jess: she used to work with Funk at UMass when they were undergrads, but then lost touch. Jess and I met a few years later through [...]

Another month, another Recipe ReDux post! This month’s theme is Frozen Desserts. Few things go together better than peanut butter and jelly. Whether you favor smooth or crunchy peanut butter, or apricot preserves over strawberry jam, it’s a pretty fail-proof sandwich filling. It’s also a pretty fail-proof ice cream flavor. Who wouldn’t brighten up at [...]

Grapefruit sorbet. My mouth waters every time I think about it, which has been often, ever since my Bertolli food tour in the North End when I sampled some at Gigi Gelateria. It was sweet, sour, refreshing, and palate cleansing and I knew I needed more in my life. Despite the recent influx of ice [...]

Over the weekend I had the great pleasure of spending the day with eight other Boston food bloggers and two fabulous hosts from Bertolli for a walking food tour of the North End. Not only was it an absolutely gorgeous day to be in the Little Italy of Boston, but I always mean to spend [...]

For my dad’s coffee ice cream: 2 cans light coconut milk 1 cup strong coffee, cold 1/2 cup sugar 1tsp vanilla pinch of salt Mix all ingredients in a large bowl and let sit in the fridge for a few hours or overnight, and then follow the manufacturer’s instructions for your ice cream maker. Because [...]

Funk’s favorite ice cream = Cookies ‘n Cream. Ingredients: 2 cans light coconut milk 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup sugar pinch of salt 25 Oreo cookies (Nabisco, Trader Joe’s or Newman’s brand all work), crushed Combine coconut milk, vanilla, sugar and salt in a large bowl and mix to combine. Set aside in the fridge [...]