Here is a simple veggie recipe that made a good side dish to bring to a potluck-style dinner Funk and I went to. Ingredients: 2 heads of broccoli, cut into bite-sized florets 1 container cherry tomatoes 1 16-oz container cherry tomatoes 1 3.8-oz can sliced black olives, drained 1 Tbsp capers juice from one lemon [...]

This guest post is brought to you by Elizabeth, one of the most inspiring ladies I know who also happens to be plant-strong! People often ask me if, as a vegan or vegetarian, I get bored of the ‘limited’ food choices. Au contraire my friend! I find that eating a plant-based diet has increased my [...]

A few weeks ago I made this Kale and Chickpea Soup, modified from Vegetarian Times’ White Bean and Kale Soup. Because I’ve been transitioning between my old computer and new one, I totally forgot about this recipe I wanted to share! I’m also still trying to get the hang of blogging from a Mac. I [...]

What a nice surprise when this shows up at your doorstep:                                     A five pound bag of walnuts. Amazing? I think so. If you follow Steph of C&J Nutrition on twitter, you know how much she loves her [...]

Last Tuesday I played hookey with Elizabeth and took a day trip out to Beverly, MA for a raw lunch and curly hair cut at Cala Renee Salon (the raw lunch was not at the curly hair salon!). Elizabeth had been to the Organic Garden Cafe before, and I had tried some of their catered meals in the [...]

Last week I was invited by California Walnuts to attend an intimate dinner at the Top of the Hub with food and nutrition celebrities (in my world) Mollie Katzen and Walter Willett. I had met Mollie last summer at the Food for your Whole Life Symposium and she’s just the sweetest person ever who has a [...]

Last weekend, Susie and Chelsee from We are Not Martha invited Funk and I over for an Oscars party. I’ve never been one to sit glued to the TV to watch awards for movies I’ve never seen, but it was so much fun to enjoy the event with others, eat amazing (popcorn-themed) food, and even [...]

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to see an early screening of the documentary Forks Over Knives at the Museum of Science, which will be in theaters May 6, 2011. I heard some early buzz about this film being like the documentary version of the book The China Study. source This book is [...]

 I have two bags of Bob’s Red Mill bulgur in my kitchen and wanted to make a dent in them. In the past I’ve made tabouli with bulgur, using the easy soak method. But I found bulgur was just as easy to cook when I made a modified version of Eating Well’s Mustard Greens & [...]

 I thought I knew my whole grains. Even if I hadn’t tried some of them, I could surely recognize them by name. And then while at the Whole Grain Conference in Portland, Elizabeth pointed out teff. Huh? Teff is the teeniest tiniest whole grain there is. Smaller than a poppy seed. source Turns out, I [...]