I’m a fan of soups, and my favorite is tortilla. This roasted tomato tortilla soup is a different version of the usual broth based version with black beans and corn, and is easy and delicious. It’s also a great way to use up tomatoes that aren’t quite the best — you know, anything from a [...]
I work best in the early morning, and by the afternoon, I’m usually ready for a nap. When a nap is not in order, a healthy and energizing snack will usually do the trick. Like these easy to make carrot cake energy bites. I have lots of different snack foods available for this purpose, some [...]
I don’t often make clarified butter. Usually it’s when I have extra butter leftover from holiday baking or I’ll see something that would be delicious fried in butter. Clarified butter is butter that is cooked to remove all of the water with the milk solids removed. A little longer, and you get ghee. Why do [...]
I love a good winter kale salad, but a good one is hard to come by sometimes. Kale has been trendy for a while now, so you see it everywhere these days, but a lot of restaurants put it on their menu because it’s trendy, and don’t always understand what makes it good. It’s not [...]
Garlic can be a lot of things — sharp and spicy when raw, intensely flavored when chopped and sautéed, or in the case of this garlic confit, rich and mellow. If you’re a garlic lover, then this recipe is one you should try right now. It’s super easy, requires 2 ingredients, and turns a bulb of garlic [...]
A perfect day for me is when it’s a bit chilly, there are crisp colored leaves on the ground, and I have a hot beverage in my hands to warm me up. So yeah, this is my favorite time of year. Hot chocolate is a favorite fall treat of mine, but it took me a [...]
Tomatoes are amazing in just about everything, but one of my favorites is a good tomato soup. And since it’s the beginning of soup season, and also the time when you see pumpkin everything, I thought I’d try a tomato pumpkin soup. It starts with roasting the tomatoes at high heat until they are blistered [...]
One of my favorite side dishes is mashed potatoes, especially when the weather starts to cool down. I almost always make extra because it’s easy to turn them into potato cakes or bread or something the next day. Or in this case, a full meal in one go. A can of tuna amps up the [...]
I eat a lot of spinach. I put it in smoothies, have made it into appetizers, and sometimes even eat it as a main course. My favorite way to eat it, however, might be this easy, 3 ingredient (okay 5 if you count salt and oil!) side dish. It comes together in minutes, and goes [...]
Let’s talk about banana doughnuts for a sec. Or to start bananas. You know those people that can eat a banana as a snack? “It’s portable,” they say. Or, “it comes in its own packaging.” Yeah, I get these things are true, but I would never pack a banana in my bag for a portable [...]
Here's all the social media sites people tell me I need to be on. You can (kinda) find me on these. The only one guaranteed to get you a quick response is email, so try that first.