The Perfect No-Cook Dinner
The summer before my junior year of college – what now seems like lifetimes and galaxies away – my best friend Sofya and I studied abroad in Paris for one month. Our class, where we surveyed the...
View ArticleQuinoa and Black Bean Salad with Chipotle-Lime Dressing + a fun photo shoot
A few weeks ago, my good friend Michelle and I spent an afternoon in the kitchen taking some photos. Because you are not a health food blogger until there’s a photo shoot centered on you making a...
View ArticleSavory Oatmeal with Shiitake Bacon, Kale and Fried Egg
Savory oatmeal is a concept I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. I love how it takes a run-of-the-mill food like oatmeal and turns it into a blank canvas for myriad possibilities. This recipe is a...
View ArticleGoat Cheese and Caramelized Onion Crostini
I’m pretty sure my friends and I were the only kids who threw dinner parties in high school; they wanted to feel like sophisticated adults and I wanted to cook. My friend Sofya and I literally used to...
View ArticleKale-Apple Salad with Parmesan Chips and Tahini Dressing
It is a rare occurrence to come across a truly great salad and this, ladies and gentlemen, is a truly great salad. Here’s how it all goes down: you begin by shredding kale and massaging it until...
View ArticleThai Coconut Curry with Vegetables
Last weekend, NYC was a very unpleasant place to be. Due to Joaquin’s hurricane-y wrath, it was unseasonably cold, wet and grey. Rene and I originally planned to spend Saturday brunching and digging...
View ArticleCharred Broccoli is Your New Favorite Vegetable
Whoever’s idea it was to serve boiled broccoli to humans with functioning taste buds deserves to be put in a corner to think about what he did. To ruin such a versatile, nutritious, and yes, delicious...
View ArticleBlack Bean-Pumpkin Burgers with Cilantro Yogurt Sauce
Every year around this time, the internet is flooded with a slew of pumpkin recipes. Sadly, a majority of said recipes calls for canned pumpkin instead of fresh. Although it’s okay to use canned...
View ArticlePão de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Puffs)
My first encounter with pao de queijo was a pretty unglamorous one. I was shopping in my neighborhood Key Food, starving, and needed something to nom on while walking home. Passing by the bread...
View ArticleWarm Cabbage Salad with Roasted Garlic Dressing
This past Saturday, I woke up giddy as an eight-year-old on Christmas morning, eager to unwrap a package I recently gifted myself – a tripod! I made the transition from iPhone photography to DSLR over...
View ArticleHow to Make Healthy Weeknight Dinners in 5 Minutes or Less
A few weeks ago while we were out at dinner, a friend confessed that she ate a bag of candy for lunch that day (which gave yours truly only a mild heart attack). This led to a broader conversation...
View ArticleCashew Ricotta Toasts with Seared Mushrooms
If you would have told me I’d be eating (and enjoying) “ricotta” made of soaked cashews a few years ago, I would have laughed you straight outta here. But when you eat a mostly plant-based diet and...
View ArticleHow to Make Cashew Milk
Ever since adopting a mainly plant-based diet, I’ve nixed dairy milk from my fridge (except for the occasional Pão de Queijo or Challah-Banana Pudding hankering), replacing it with Silk non-dairy milks...
View ArticleWhite Bean Gratin with Panko-Parmesan Topping
Since returning from the holiday break, my life has been absolutely bananas. On our first day back, a colleague announced that she is moving away from NYC, leaving me with a way larger workload than...
View ArticleWarm Arugula Salad with Balsamic Mushrooms
I think it’s safe to say that nobody really craves salad for dinner in the wintertime. Nobody walks home after work thinking, “I can’t wait to get some cold, raw, crunchy vegetables into my mouth.” No....
View ArticleAlmond Pulp Granola with Dried Cherries
Firstly, I would like to thank you all for your comments, likes, retweets and the like in support of this weekend’s blog rebrand. It means the world to me to have your support – thank you, thank you!...
View ArticleMushroom Tacos with Red Onion & Yogurt
Ask any Bushwick resident about their favorite takeout spot and they are likely to say Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos. Strategically located right outside the Jefferson stop on the L line,...
View ArticleBroccoli Rabe Pasta with Parsley Pesto for Meatless Monday
Apart from a brief stint in 2013 believing that green juice would solve all of my problems (spoiler alert: it didn’t), I’ve never been one to gravitate toward “superfoods” or trendy diets – and don’t...
View ArticleChana Masala Kale Bowl with Beets & Sunflower Seeds
Here is a recipe I’ve had on my recipes-to-make spreadsheet (yes, such a thing exists) for quite some time now, and I am thrilled with how it finally turned out. This Indian-style kale bowl is the...
View ArticleBroccoli-Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Fried Capers
Have you ever tasted fried capers? If not, prepare your mind and taste buds to be blown by tiny, salty, nutty flavor bombs. Although capers are widely used in Mediterranean cooking, somehow, they never...
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