Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
Since my Sunday night meal, consisted primarily of healthy leftovers, I decided to splurge a little with the side dish. I suppose when the side dish is a gratin, a dish known for it’s cream and cheese, it’s more than a small splurge. Oh well, it was good and my tummy was happy. I used…
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I made bok choy for the first time the other night and have since decided to make it a regular fixture in my diet. The super easy recipe came courtesy of my mom who bought the central ingredient on a lark and then found a recipe so it wouldn’t go to waste. When it panned…
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On Sunday night I made one of the easiest recipes I could think of that also happens to look pretty fancy. Crab stuffed portabello mushrooms are basically a crab cake stuck in an oversized mushroom cap, but since you have the mushroom for support, you don’t need to add so much of the pesky filler.…
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I love creamy things. The problem is that creamy meals are always the least healthy…until you get to the Fall/Winter when a couple of the most popular vegetables can be easily turned into velvety soups or creamy sauces. I’ve seen so many butternut squash soup recipes that I should have thought about how that could…
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I love that Trader Joe’s sells Brussels sprouts in shredded/slaw form. They’re great to sauté with vegetables but this time I decided to use them for the base of a simple salad. When it comes to nuts in salad, I know the walnut is usually everybody’s first pick. I, however, prefer pine nuts or sunflower…
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Over the Summer, I was at Blockheads when a friend ordered a spinach and tofu quesadilla. This friend wasn’t a vegetarian but after a taste, I understood how she was satisfied with the meat-free lunch. This weekend, I was looking for an excuse to try out my brand new grill pan, and the spinach tofu…
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I’ve started noticing restaurants using kale instead of lettuce for salads. I had assumed kale was too tough to eat raw but it doesn’t just work, it’s freakin awesome. It’s not all watery like other lettuce types (yea you, iceberg). It’s thick so you’ll be crunching all over the place (which I think makes you…
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Since my pear/sunbutter/granola snack worked out so well, I tested out another variation for breakfast the other day. This time, I smeared sunbutter on a rice cake (made with brown rice because a regular rice cake just didn’t seem healthy enough) and topped with blueberries. The creaminess of the sunbutter and juiciness of the berries…
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I have a couple weekends coming up where I need to look G-O-O-D. With that as motivation, I am trying my darnedest to eat healthy and exercise for the next few weeks. I was inspired by some healthy snack suggestions I saw in my latest Real Simple and picked up a jar of sunflower butter (aka sunbutter)…
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I had no idea how vegetarians survived until eating here. Westville is not a vegetarian restaurant, but the long list of daily market sides is the best thing about this place. Everything is so simple and fresh, and that is enough to draw long lines for this no-reservations spot. Karina and I both started with…
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Peaches to Apples 