Quick Recipes
Pasta with Creamy Crushed Walnut Sauce
This is the best thing I’ve cooked with the least amount of effort in the past month. Most of my lazy lunches never make it to the site, but this pasta is an exception. If you have a favorite dried pasta, a few cloves of garlic, walnuts, and black pepper you can make it too. […]
Broiled Saffron Dates
If you’ve been to my house at any point in recent years, you’ve likely had these dates. They take only slightly more effort to make than placing dates unadorned on a plate. And, there must be something unusually captivating about them because people always ask me how to make them. Someone in the comments called them […]
Sautéed Brussels Sprouts with Garlic-Oregano Oil
These Brussels sprouts are just a ditty of a recipe, really. I threw them together as part of a quick lunch. And honestly, the Brussels sprouts I had on hand we’re a bit brutish – larger than I like, cosmetically rough, and past their prime. But after giving them a good scrub, and preening all […]
A Good Blended Vegetable Soup
This blended vegetable soup often makes an appearance after a trip. Specifically, when we arrive home to a mostly empty refrigerator. Alternately, I tend to cook it if f I’m needing a relatively low-lift, healthful soup that will yield some legit leftovers to be excited about later in the week. Because it’s blended, this soup […]
Feel-good Lunch Ideas
Coming up with inspired lunch ideas takes some effort. One of the things I’ve been trying to be better about is lunches on-the-go. Often times, let’s be honest, it’s re-marketing leftovers. Too often, if we’re not going to be home for the day, we just wing it. And I’m nearly always sorry we didn’t make […]
Egg Salad Sandwich
I have strong opinions about egg salad sandwiches. Usually I take a pass. Like, if I see one on a menu, or at a deli, I choose another sandwich. Egg salad tends to be so gloppy, or too much mayo, soggy bread (yuck), or the trifecta of all three. But it doesn’t have to be […]
Cottage Cheese Wraps
There was a point a couple years back when the algorithm decided I needed to know about cottage cheese wraps. They looked so tasty! They were everywhere! They seemed to be a breeze to make! You pool a quick-blended mixture of cottage cheese and eggs onto a rimmed sheet pan and bake until golden on […]
Baked Cabbage Sliders
These baked cabbage sliders cram all manner of good stuff into a crispy edged slider. Quinoa, eggs, cottage cheese, and a good amount of chopped cabbage all represent. I use one of my signature veggie burger moves here – anyone who has Super Natural Cooking (2007) might remember it. Instead of putting the sliders on […]