Classic hummus topped with pesto sauce, Kalamata olives, red onion, and feta cheese makes for the perfect appetizer or unofficial meal. You know you’ve just had a great weekend when it rolls into your Monday like the most pleasant fog in the harbor. The kind of fog you want to embrace, take photos of and post …
The crostini food group… How familiar are you with it? A fresh and tasty spread or sauce shmeared on top of crusty bread with flavor-blasted toppings to finish the whole experience with a swift kick to the palate? What’s not to love? Why not make a meal of it? Who here is as defenseless against crusty bread as I?
The citrus-y sage-y vinaigrette, though! This won’t come as a shocker, but sometimes I feel like my life wouldn’t be right without spell check, fuzzy socks, or ginormous plates of greens. After this cake, these muffins, and this pudding, I was feeling like my nutrient equation needs a little balancing. And by “a little,” I mean …
For me, fall is all about getting silly cozy and indulging in things that warm me inside and out. It’s about those off-yellow, green, and orange colors that you couldn’t possibly wear any other time of year. It’s about cider, it’s about that super warm decades-old hoody with torn kangaroo pockets you stole from your …
Spinach salad with dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, red grapes, feta cheese, and raspberry vinaigrette. It’s an end-of-summer dream! Off.the.chain.!! I was visiting my mom and her companion in crime, Carlo, in my hometown a couple of weeks ago and mentioned to Carlo that I was balls-to-the-wall craving the Raspberry Sunflower Salad from a local restaurant, …
Healthy breakfast omelette using leftover grilled vegetables, pesto sauce, and feta cheese! Leftoveeeeeers! How do you feel about them? Not everyone can handle the leftover. It takes a special human to eat the same meal several meals in a row. Me? I’ve never had a problem with leftovers – in fact, I LOVE them. Probably …
Grilled Sweet Potatoes, Zucchini, and Yellow Squash with Pesto and Feta is an easy flavorful healthful side dish perfect for grilling season! I do believe this is the best thing I’ve grilled all summer. Correction: this is the best meatless thing I’ve grilled all summer… …because just the other day, I grilled bacon. The.End. There …
Roasted Sweet Potato Salad with Spinach, grapes, avocado, feta cheese and more! This hearty, healthy salad recipe is both light and filling! Make it for your guests for a crowd-pleasing side dish, or just add your favorite animal protein to turn it into an entree salad. Not yo momma’s tater salad right here, folks! Oh …
This zesty green bean salad with walnuts and feta is dresed all snazy-like in lemon-mint vinaigrette. Full of flavor and perfect for all your summer barbecues!
Mediterranean Zucchini Noodle Pasta is fresh, flavorful, and healthful – perfect for any time of year and easy to prepare in less than 30 minutes! Do you ever want to put a meal on repeat and wear it out like an old pair of sneakers? Walk 500 miles in it? Vegetable noodle pasta is definitely …
Remember on Monday how I was bellyaching about the heat wave and how intensely I wanted to swivel my way up a fruity cocktail, fall in, and just….live there? I high tailed it. Hopped in the car, leaving molten lavaville for the mountains, where temperatures are 20 degrees cooler. For those of you who are …
Mediterranean quinoa salad with spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, kalamata olives, feta, and a lemon vinaigrette. This healthy salad recipe makes the perfect light vegetarian meal, or side dish for sharing with friends and family. I often ask the manacle (get it? Bah-de-haaa!) what he thinks and feels about specific recipes I make. What a loaded question, …
