This recipe - and variations of it - has been a staple in my house for some time. It takes very little effort to throw together, cooks quickly, and tastes like a pricey restaurant entree. If you don't have pistachios at home (we usually don't because they get eaten in 7 seconds), you can use chopped walnuts or panko breadcrumbs for a tasty alternative. The omega-3 fatty acids in sal[...]
We're doing something a little different today: making cheese! Don't be intimidated - making ricotta at home is so much easier than you think, and it's infinitely more delicious than anything you can buy at the grocery store. Store-bought ricotta tends to have an unpleasant, grainy texture, but this one is fluffy, smooth and so tasty. Eat your homemade ricotta as a topping on[...]
Happy Tuesday, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend and feel ready to rock a new week! It has been a crazy time of home improvement projects around here and my kitchen has looked like this for 3 weeks: so needless to say, I haven't been cooking much lately. Frozen pizzas save lives, for real. Instead of sharing a recipe today, I'm sharing some articles I've read[...]
When counseling clients, a consistent theme that comes up is convenience. It's challenging to juggle everything life throws at us, and we often don't have a surplus of energy to use for planning meals and snacks. The average person could skip a meal or snack and go hungry for a few hours and life will go on (although your productivity and mood might suffer!), but for my clients r[...]
When you think of winter vegetables, what comes to mind? Potatoes, squash, carrots... more potatoes? That certainly doesn't sound as inspiring as the vast array of fruits and veggies available in the summer. But believe it or not, there's more out there! My goal in creating this recipe was to capitalize on the range of produce that thrive in cooler temperatures, and the result was more bea[...]