On Friday night, Funk and I had date night at a restaurant in Somerville I’ve been meaning to try: True Bistro. It opened within a year or so, I believe, and is a straight-up, all vegan restaurant. In fact, it’s the only all vegan restaurant I can think of in the area that doesn’t serve [...]

When it comes to most recipes, I usually don’t make the same thing twice. I like to experiment in the kitchen and get bored eating the same thing over and over. But when it comes to chili? I don’t stray. I know what I like, and it’s Eating Well’s Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili. It [...]

File this under “tastes better than it looks.” No really. If you have a hankering for cheezy tofu scramble like I did, you’ll totally ignore the fact that it’s not the prettiest dish to come out of your kitchen. Ingredients: 2 blocks firm tofu, drained 4-5 handfuls of curly kale, cut into bite sized pieces [...]

Over the weekend I was holed up in bed with a miserable head cold. The Nyquil-dependent kind of head cold that leaves me craving carbs in a serious way: toast, noodles, candy, and nothing more. Come Sunday night, I wanted something a little fancier than toast with jam, so I googled “vegan cornbread” and happily [...]

When Heidi Swanson’s 101 Cookbooks recipe for Miso Sesame Winter Squash arrived in my inbox, I clicked over to it right away. I already had all of the sauce ingredients on hand, and only needed tofu and winter squash to complete the recipe. But last night when I finally mustered up the energy to make [...]

I know, I know. This bowl of brown who-knows-what isn’t much to look at. But bear with me, because it tastes amazing. This month’s Recipe ReDux theme is “Fresh Start – A New Approach to Breakfast.” So you may be wondering why I made oatmeal for breakfast, since its really nothing new. The method I [...]

Remember when I went on that date dinner in December? Well I received some packages of pistachio and coconut rolled date “logs” when I was there and found the perfect recipe to use them: Vegetarian Times’ Date and Chickpea Tagine. Tagine (also spelled tajine) is a North African dish and this one has a perfect [...]

Phew! It is a hectic week over here in the Funk household. I have something scheduled every night this week and Funk finished up an intense week-long MBA class before we jet off to Colorado to visit friends of the long weekend. So I knew dinners would have to be easy this week, and planned [...]

My mom gave me a recipe for Ellie Krieger’s Autumn Vegetable Curry, and I love veggie curry almost as much as I love Ellie Krieger. Wait, does that make me sound stalker-ish and weird? Don’t answer that. But Ellie is a Food Network TV star and dietitian, which is basically my life goal, so I [...]

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 [...]