NYC-based food blog featuring [mostly healthy] recipes, restaurant recommendations and how-to's
This soup was supposed to be a clean-out-the-fridge kinda dish. I needed to use up an open container of vegetable stock, some sweet potatoes and dried out bread, and decided to make roasted sweet potato soup. I didn’t mean for it to be a “blog recipe” but it turned out to be one of the…
Let’s face it: cauliflower is kind of a reject vegetable. When has anyone ever said, “I really wish I could have some cauliflower right now.” That’s right. Never. Maybe because it looks like discolored broccoli, or its sorta funky smell, but people just don’t seem to love it. It recently gained some traction with the…
Firstly, thank you all so much for your awesome comments on my last post! I’m so touched by all the positivity coming my way. Secondly, I’m very excited to tell you about this purple cabbage slaw! (It’s definitely not normal to be this hyped up about a salad.) I had a head of purple cabbage…
If it seems like I’ve been MIA for the past couple of weeks, it’s because I have been. I recently started a new and awesome job (more on that later) and am still trying to get in the swing of working full-time, maintaining a personal life and writing the blog, with only 24 insufficient hours…
If you’ve ever watched Ina or Emeril prepare a traditional lasagna, you know it’s a lengthy process, a Sunday afternoon sort of dish. There’s the meat ragout made from scratch, the boiling of the pasta, the assembly, and all those dirty dishes. Since I learned to cook largely by watching the Food Network, I got…
Tostones are twice-fried green plantains that are a popular side dish in South America and Haiti. They are crispy on the outside, softer on the inside and really fun to eat; I’d take them over fries any day. Deep-fried foods may be the antithesis of healthy, but that doesn’t mean we should give up this…
