Roasted Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad with Chickpeas and Preserved Lemon
25 Jan 2018

Roasted Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad with Chickpeas and Preserved Lemon

by | posted in: Beans, gluten-free, Grains, Recipes, Sides & Salads, vegan, vegetarian | 18

There’s evil starches, then there’s good-for-you starches, from a modern-day health perspective. White potatoes are roundly shunned as one of those bad, rotten, festering ones of the bunch, bound to metastasize into a gummy tube of fat around your waistline. Refined white flours are bad, too, if you can even eat them without experiencing painful gluten intolerances! Now, I will never call either of these types of food “bad” entirely, but the bright side to these diet trends is discovering a … Read More

New England Clam Chowder
12 Jan 2018

New England Clam Chowder

by | posted in: Recipes, Seafood, Soups & Stews | 15

Let’s start off a year of fewer regrets. It’s 2018, a good time to start getting things done! It’s about time to do things that have long been neglected and put off, like a laundry list of—well, laundry is one of them. And for some reason, I have never made New England-style clam chowder before. Let’s knock this one off and keep on going strong.

Reason For Not Eating Out #63: Because It’s Cold Outside
5 Jan 2018

Reason For Not Eating Out #63: Because It’s Cold Outside

by | posted in: Reason of the Month | 6

The lyrics to the classic wintry song, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” did not age too well. Sung as a male-female duet, the woman repeatedly insists “I really must go,” to which the male singer retorts, “Baby, it’s cold outside.” But you can tell from the smugness in his voice that he’s really not that concerned about the cold. He wants to get her into his bed. And maybe she sorta wants to be there, which would make this scenario more … Read More