When it comes to sandwiches, I’m a little picky. I am completely bored by a regular ‘ol sandwich like pb+j or a grilled veggie sandwich. But when it comes to big, bulky, piping hot pressed paninis? Show me to them. I like when sandwiches are stuffed with all sorts of fillers and grilled to perfection. [...]

This month’s Recipe Redux theme was “Putting the P(ea) in Potluck” and we were instructed to use legumes in a party-friendly recipe or festive dish. I guess I misread the challenge because instead of making a festive dish, I had my eye on Happy Herbivore’s Chickpea Noodle Soup recipe, and thought it’d be fun to [...]

          I did it! I fi-na-lly successfully made bread in my bread machine! Funk’s grandma gave me her old bread machine a few years ago, and after two failed attempts at bread, I put it away in the basement. I wanted to give it another try this weekend, since everyone says [...]

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 [...]

I just realized this great quinoa salad is filled with “A” ingredients: asparagus, almonds, and apricots! I made a massive batch of this quinoa salad last week so we’d have enough leftover to come home to after a weekend away. We spent the weekend on a beautiful lake in Michigan for our friends’ wedding and [...]

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 [...]

It hasn’t even been a month since our honeymoon and I was already craving the gallo pinto (rice and beans pronounced gah-yo) we were eating daily for breakfast in Costa Rica. Fortunately I picked up the Finca’s spiral bound cookbook so I could mimic the amazing meals we ate there while at home. And while [...]

I have said before that salsa is more than a condiment to me…it’s a food, or at least in the quantities I eat it! So I was excited when we were taking our cooking class in Costa Rica and one of the recipes was for a black bean salsa and homemade tortilla chips. The secret [...]

I’d like to thank Janel for giving me the opportunity to guest post while she is off enjoying her exotic and relaxing honeymoon. My name is Jess and I blog at A Fete for Food about cooking and eating healthy, local, delicious food when I can find it. In French, “fete” means party; my blog [...]