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Caramelized Cauliflower with Capers
Cauliflower was always one of those vegetables that eluded me. My parents never cooked with it; and when I would eat out, when it appeared in my side of mixed vegetables, I always ate around. So, I...
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Roasted Garlic and Kale Hummus
Hummus is a mainstay around my house. Roark is a big snacker, so hummus is something healthy he can mindlessly munch on. I love to smear it on sandwiches or take it to work to dip my veggies in. We...
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Spaghetti Squash Gratin with Acorn Squash Béchamel and a GIVEAWAY
I’m not exactly sure how it got started, but for the past five years Roark and I have been making ourselves a fresh fruit smoothie every morning for breakfast. We read somewhere that because a...
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Clementine and Poppy Seed Sticky Rolls
One of the first times I went to visit my Mom after she moved to Montana, my college buddy, Hilary, flew out with my sister and me. Katy and I were using buddy passes, courtesy of Hilary’s dad, to...
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White Bean and Soysage Soup
You might have noticed I’m a bit of a soup fan. I love soups for the same reasons I love sweaters: they wrap you in warmth on a cold winter day. While I have certain soups that are light on the belly...
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Chocolate Truffles
I’ve never been a big Valentine’s Day person, and if I’m being honest, I’m not much of a romance person either. Call it being a child of divorce, but I’m way too logical in my relationships and it’s...
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The Homemade Kitchen- Shop Your Pantry
It could almost be a full time job managing a real food kitchen. It takes time to cook things from scratch and serious planning to make sure a well balanced dinner gets on the table every night....
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Cauliflower and Cheddar Soup
Whoever’s idea it was to throw a chunk of cheese in a soup is pure genius in my book. There’s not much you can do to soup to make it better than it already is, but the addition of cheese somehow...
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Cherry and Hazelnut Biscotti
I always seem to have little stashes of nuts that I find tucked away in the very back crevices of my cabinets. Leftovers from baklava, stir-fry, or cookies, they’re normally little more than ½ a cup...
View ArticleFamily Dinner Night and a Welch’s Giveaway
As an adult, to be completely honest, I rarely have family dinner nights. It’s not that I don’t love them, but Roark and my schedules are so crazy right now that usually we have dinner while relaxing...
View ArticleAspartame in Milk- Not A Solution for Healthier Kids
There’s no use crying over a spilt glass of milk, especially if it has aspartame in it like two very powerful dairy associations are asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow without...
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Grape and Rosemary Risotto
Risotto must be Italian for ‘love,’ because a good Risotto craves the tenderness and care given to a newborn baby. Risotto is not like a soup where you can just throw everything in one big pot, walk...
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Back To Basics- Pasta Sauce
Michael Moss, author of “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” recently said in an article to the New York Times that “as a culture, we have lost the will but also the knowledge to make”...
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Two Vinegar Carrots
This past Christmas, Roark and I planned on staying home and cooking a big dinner together. I decided that I wanted the meal to be all Italian, since it’s my favorite type of food to cook and eat....
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Three Bean Salad and a GIVEAWAY!
As I sit here writing this post, pink petals slowly drift off the cherry blossom tree outside. Looking out my window, it almost looks like snow. I’m not fooled though, since everything is tinted...
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Amazon After-Run Shake
Reading my Twitter feed, I thought it was some practical joke. Maybe by explosion they just meant the massive amounts of energy and excitement that happens when marathon runners cross the finish...
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Back to Basics- Balsamic Vinaigrette Salad Dressing
My vegetarianism was always a conundrum for the most of my meat eating family, but not my Nana. I watched her from the bar stool; my elbows propped up on the counter as she fished out soy burgers...
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Honeybee Highball and My Montana Trip
Before we hop into today’s post, I just wanted to let everyone know I’m working on our monthly E-Newsletter, An Extra Helping, which will be going out next week for the month of May! It’s going to be...
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Chocolate Chunk and Thyme Cookies
Before we hop into today’s post, I just wanted to let everyone know I’m working on our monthly E-Newsletter, An Extra Helping, which will be going out later this week for the month of May! It’s going...
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Back To Basics- How to Make Laundry Detergent
With all the focus that we put on what goes into our bodies, sometimes it’s easy to forget about the things that go on our bodies. Our skin works as a protective barrier, designed to keep out...
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