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Restaurant Style Salsa
Summer’s coming fast, and if that doesn’t conjure visions of fresh salsa and Negro Modelo, then you need to do some soul-searching. Where’s your head at? Get in the game. I want to find myself this weekend (and every weekend for the next six months) sitting on a patio somewhere imbibing something cold and refreshing and possibly dipping some corn chips into a delicious pool of fire-roasted tomatoes combined with fresh onions, and cilantro, grown in someone’s garden or at least picked up from the Farmer’s Market. Mexican food of all kinds is at the very top on my list of favorites, and I especially love going to Mexican restaurants where…
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Tropical Fruit Salad with Toasted Hazelnuts and Coconut
I literally woke up this morning in the middle of a dream about tropical fruit salad. It started with plantains (which did not make the cut in my real-life salad because they have no business there), but then it snowballed into mangoes and pineapples and toasted hazelnuts, and all sorts of things that I ended up REALLY wanting to eat. And thus, a goal for my day off was born! (Or at least a second goal that would compete for attention with my previously established goals of washing my sheets and taking the dog for a run. I think I can find time for all three… ) Why was I…
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Sweet Potato Noodles with Cashew Cream Sauce (Vegan)
I can’t explain the vegan kick lately, but let’s roll with it, it’s good for us. (Unless “paleo” is the real good for us, but no one can answer this question for me… ) I digress. Let’s talk about these sweet potatoes noodles and my first foray into SPIRALIZING!! Yeah, I’m pretty much late to all trends, so this isn’t shocking. I’ve been watching people spiralize their veggies on Pinterest for months now, drooling over the late summer zucchini noodles and squash pappardelle. I hadn’t bothered to put any spiralized veggies on my short list to cook though because 1) I don’t own a spiralizer, 2) I didn’t feel like…
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Greek Salad (Vegan)
This past weekend was one of those weekends when I kind of accidentally booked all the nooks and crannies of my calendar. It was all great awesine super fun stuff – we took a cooking class, shared a lunch out with the inlaws, a Valentine’s dinner with my brother and sister-in-law, got in quality workouts like a first-time intro to Jiu Jitsu class and a long run, worked on the new business, and celebrated my cousin’s 30th birthday. You gotta admit that’s a lot of stuff for two measly days off, especially for a homebody like myself who fantasizes about days with no commitments. Nonetheless, it was all worth the…
