Several weeks ago, my mom gave me a fresh bunch of parsley. And I let it sit in my fridge for another few weeks. It was beginning to lose its luster and wilt, but I knew I didn’t need to toss it. When foods start to turn bad in our kitchen, what do we do? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m not Mexican in any way, but I wanted to do a celebratory dinner for Cinco de Mayo. And what better food to celebrate with than nachos? If I were stranded on a desert island and only allowed 5 foods, they would be (in no particular order): McIntosh apples Kale Pretzels Those red gummy hearts [...]

Note: I just got a Mac (yay!) and it doesn’t work with my usual blogging program so I’m trying to figure out how to get my pretty layouts back. In the meantime, I leave you with this poorly laid out post that I can’t figure out how to fix. Whoopsie! I’m slightly embarassed to hit [...]

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 [...]

A few weeks ago when I was flying to Portland for the whole grains conference, I got stuck in Minnesota overnight after what was supposed to be a 55 minute layover. Fortunately my aunt and uncle live 15 minutes from the airport and they came to my rescue, giving me a cozy bed that was [...]

  I just came back to earth after an amazing 5 days at the American Dietetic Association’s annual Food and Nutrition Conference. (Recap to come soon!) Contrary to what you might think about a food and nutrition conference, we’re not exactly fed meals. Instead, we’re invited to explore the football-sized expo hall with hundreds of [...]

This week I had three glorious posts scheduled to go up on my blog detailing my amazing POM Wonderful Blogger Harvest Tour experience. But with some technical, er, glitches, I have to put them on hold for a bit. However you can check out the beautiful blogs of the following people to read up on [...]

My family had a BBQ over the weekend for my Dad’s birthday, and I offered to make some spreads to snack on. I always have a container of hummus or black bean spread in my fridge, but every once in a while its nice to blend your own spread with your favorite flavors, herbs, spices, [...]