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 [...]

Every few weeks when we grocery shop, Funk will toss some fake chick’n strips in the cart. I’m not a huge fan of these, as they’re pretty processed, but he likes them for their convenience and will incorporate them into a quick meal when I’m off kitchen duty. But when I got an email in [...]

My favorite fruit (and one of my favorite foods ever) is the apple. I eat one daily. But in my top five list of favorite fruits is the pineapple. I know it has no relation to the actual apple, but the name is similar so no wonder I love it so much! Fresh pineapple is [...]

No, no, no, not these Hot Pockets. Did you really think I’d blog about that? I want to tell you about these Sweet Potato Vegetable hot pockets I made, adapted from a Vegetarian Times recipe for Spice Market Sweet Potato and Lentil Packets. I’m a huge fan of roasting my veggies in the oven, but [...]

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 [...]

Last week I worked on a test recipe for an upcoming Healthy Eats post. I wanted to make a veggie burger that was hearty with some bite to it, and not just a bunch of cooked vegetables smooshed together into a patty shape. I took some inspiration from a few Vegetarian Times veggie burger recipes [...]

Ok so despite what this post’s title says, I most definitely did not have a meal that included a bacon sandwich and chips. Well, not entirely. What I did have was a bacon tempeh sandwich with kale chips. This recipe for Tempeh Bacon from Vegetarian Times came to me via email when I had a [...]

When flipping through my most recent Vegetarian Times magazine, I found a fabulous chickpea and artichoke sandwich filler recipe that I tore out immediately. It’s been sitting on our kitchen table all week, so I put the recipe into action for dinner the other night. As usual, I made some slight alterations: I didn’t use [...]

I was away with my girlfriends this weekend for a friend’s batchelorette trip, where we indulged on cupcakes, sweets, chips, and bubblegum vodka (yes it exists and it’s amazing). When I came home Sunday night, I scoured my recipe files for the most veggie-packed meal I could come up with, and this Eggplant Provencale recipe [...]

As soon as I saw this recipe for Indian Lentil Pilaf from Vegetarian Times I knew I had to make it…stat. I love love love Indian food and Funk feels the same way about lentils so it was a no-brainer. However, the night I planned on making the meal, Trader Joes was out of their [...]