It’s tough to beat Northwest farmers markets in the summertime. Booths are overflowing with peaches, berries, tomatoes and corn. Which reminds me to re-make Smitten Kitchen’s tomato and corn pie — a pie that presented many firsts for me: my first savory pie, my first homemade vegetarian meal, even my first meal with in-season […]
Recipe
Quinoa salad w/ black beans, avocado and cumin-lime dressing
In the summertime, my patience weens. I like rawer foods, quicker meals and fewer dishes. And with the farmers markets full of raw, colorful treats, why not dive headfirst into salads? Lately I’ve been stockpiling salad recipes to make over the summer, and since I had some avocado to use up, I had just the […]
Chickpea & cherry tomato salad w/ cilantro dressing
Anytime I’m making something as simple as the following recipe is, I feel the least I can do is cook my own chickpeas. So all you need to do is have some in the fridge, or soak them the night before. Because I use chickpeas so regularly, I’ve gotten in the habit of soaking and cooking some […]
Oatcakes
Remember when I said I would be blogging some recipes from Heidi Swanson’s Super Natural Every Day soon? Soon is now. You see, yesterday was Thursday and my biweekly healthy baking adventure continues as I make morning treats for my dad’s colleagues. Oatcakes are seemingly everywhere. If you haven’t heard of them, no pasa nada, I […]
Heavenly breakfast bread: raisin cinnamon wheat bread
This week, I had the pleasure of making one of Marion Cunningham’s recipes from The Breakfast Book, and whoa mama! If you want to make a snack for tea time, or gift a somewhat unusual, larger than life loaf of bread, then I think this is one to consider. It’s a tad sweet, but that’s to […]
Hungarian mushroom soup
They say you shouldn’t buy a car without test-driving it. I feel similarly toward cookbooks — which is why I’m often seen camped out in the culinary section of my library, many cookbooks strewn about — because you can test-drive the recipes before taking the plunge of purchase. That said, one of my recent check-outs […]
Nikki’s healthy cookies
I — you know, the same girl that was capable of eating an entire pan of cupcakes by herself within a day or two; the one that couldn’t go to sleep without a taste of ice cream — learned that I have a sugar addiction (a related and recent must-read New York Times article, Is […]
Basil piña colada quinoa
Sometimes you need a reminder that tropical places do exist, and are likely warmer than where you are. Often times, crawling out of bed when I can see frost on the windshields from my bedside is a challenge; however, having a tropical warm breakfast is incentive to get up and welcome the day. So ladies […]
Zucchini and mung dal
When it comes to comfort food, most people conjure up thoughts of ooey, gooey casserole dishes their mothers used to make. Maybe macaroni and cheese? Lasagna? Or perhaps your sweet tooth does the thinking and it’s something a little less savory and a little more chocolate chippy? Whatever your comfort food of choice is, we […]
Breakfast rice
Rice?…For breakfast? Count me in. I’m not sure why I found eating rice for breakfast so taboo, but I did. And let me tell ya, I’ve been missing out. Lately I’ve been experimenting with new recipes quite a bit (will be blogging many of them over the next few weeks), but mainly lunch and dinner recipes. […]