Eat Healthy – Live long, Live strong
Hanukkah commences with tonight’s sunset, and I wanted to make a traditional dessert to commemorate my Jewish heritage on my dad’s side of the family. Every time we’d visit my paternal grandparents in Riverdale, NY, my grandma would make a trip to a bakery on Arthur Avenue for chocolate babka and rugelach. This marks my…
Here we go: the latest installment of recipes around the blogosphere that I’ve recently made and loved! This Maple Pecan Streusel Pumpkin Bread (as seen on Princess in the Kitchen, originally from Believing Boldly) immediately caught my attention on Pinterest. The reason you don’t see an entire loaf documented in this post? Simple. I mowed through half of the…
On this first day of December, I thought it appropriate to post a recipe for steaming hot, comforting, nutrient-packed stew. As you can probably surmise, I’m not typically a meat-and-potatoes kind of girl; but these ingredients become more appealing to me as the hours of daylight wane and the temperature drops. I don’t often prepare…
For Mother’s Day, John put together a gorgeous potted herb garden for me; and with all of the rain we’ve been getting here in MA, the plants are growing at lightening speed. The cilantro plant in particular proliferated while we were on vacation last week, so I needed to use a few handfuls in a…
Yep, another avocado & cilantro recipe. Our cilantro plant is out of control! If you have recipes featuring cilantro, please provide links in the comment section ;). My in-laws brought fresh lobsters up for Father’s Day, half of which we steamed, the other half of which we grilled. There were A LOT of leftovers, and my…
1. SO Delicious has – in my opinion – stolen the show in terms of vegan holiday beverages this year. Both their ‘Nog & Mint Chocolate coconut milk beverages are super tasty. The latter actually almost tastes to me like it has been spiked with liquor… but that’s probably due to over-consumption of peppermint schnapps hot chocolate during my college years. Whenever I…
The best thing about leftovers is morphing them into a slightly different dish later on in the week. Case in point: I reheated the Sweet Potato Zucchini Vichyssoise with chipotle chile powder and cumin, and then topped it with chopped avocado, plain 2% Greek yogurt, and chipotle hot sauce. I hereby declare this meal makeover mission…
You know what frustrates me? I’ll tell ya. When you order pancakes – whether they be banana, blueberry, chocolate chip, or what have you – at a restaurant, and set in front of you is a stack of pancakes with a measly scattering of whatever add-in you had your heart set on. That’s where homemade…
Last Sunday night John and I had dinner with our friends Shannon and Mike at Sweet Basil, our favorite restaurant out here in the ‘burbs. Everything we’ve ordered from our many times at this popular restaurant has been phenomenal, but one of the best dishes they offer comes gratis: fresh basil pesto with big chunks of garlic and…
One tenet of my healthy eating philosophy is to choose produce that is in season as often as possible. Even though grocery store produce shelves are overflowing with berries, zucchini, and other summer fare, the Natural Resource Defense Council states that there is “no fresh, local produce available in Massachusetts at this time”. Although this unfortunate fact certainly doesn’t mean…