I don’t know who discovered the spinach artichoke dip combo, but whoever you are, I salute you. It could have been carrot broccoli dip, or celery tomato dip. But no, its spinach artichoke amazingness dip. It’s also a calorie bomb. Calorific, as one of my clients likes to say (which I actually didn’t even know [...]

The thing with making banana bread is that you have to wait all week for those dang bananas to ripen before you can get cooking. But once those bananas are ready? It’s well worth it. Especially for this amazing vegan blueberry banana bread I spotted on the Daily Garnish blog. I love a recipe that [...]

  Last week I was talking with a client about Lo Mein. She loves it, and frequently orders takeout from a nearby Chinese restaurant. “Why not save some cash and calories and make your own?” I asked her. We did a quick search and found some healthy Lo Mein recipes online, including this one from [...]

A few weeks ago, breaking news (haha) reported that popcorn has more antioxidants than fruits and veggies. I did a little cheer, and then emailed the link to funk with a subject of: BEST. NEWS. EVER. We’re popcorn junkies around here. Popcorn contains concentrated levels of polyphenols. These disease fighting antioxidants, also found in green [...]

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 [...]

I’m here, I swear! I’ve been totally slacking on the blog posting, but it’s because I’ve been totally slacking on anything worthy to eat that I’d even want to share. At the beginning of the week Funk and I were finishing off Super Bowl food leftovers like salads with huge scoops of salsa and guac [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]