Recipes

How salads have changed. Gone are the days when asked to make a green salad, you only needed torn lettuce, and  tomatoes, cut into wedges. Housewives soon decided that the lowly green salad needed an upgrade. So welcome the extra ingredient. This was the one that gave the salad your own personal touch. If all our friends had to bring green salads and put the bowls on a table, I could, with quite a high degree of accuracy, tell you who brought what. Mary (for obvious reasons I haven’t used their real names) loved to put raw onions in hers....

Roast Carrot Hummus with Sun Dried Tomato Harissa Makes about 4 cups 1 cup dried chickpeas2 teaspoons baking soda, divided4 medium carrots2 tablespoons olive oil1/2 cup sun dried tomato harissa2 teaspoons kosher salt1 teaspoon ground turmeric3 cloves garlic1/2 cup fresh lemon juice1/4 cup water2/3 cup tahini Place the chickpeas and 1 teaspoon baking soda in a bowl and cover them with at least 2” of cold water. Cover the bowl and allow to rest at room temperature for 8-12 hours; the chickpeas will double in size. Drain and the soaked chickpeas, transfer them to a pot along with the remaining...

Hello from Durham. I’ve been here for the past few days accompanying my mom to Duke for some routine procedures and appointments. All is going well, and I’ll have more on that in post to come later this week. For today…recent eats! A few notes before we dive in. It’s been almost a month since I wrote a recent eats round up so meals are all over the place. You’ll even see two breakfasts that I had on my last trip to Florida. Lots of Trader Joe’s items in this post. I love their frozen foods section and recently restocked...

This post contains affiliate links.  We had Okinamiyaki twice this week because it’s one of my favorite Japanese meals, and I can eat it on the Low Fodmap diet.  Win!  We also tried Beef & Cauliflower Taco Skillet because I had a lot of frozen cauliflower rice to use up, and my family loved it.  They’re not big fans of cauliflower rice, but they couldn’t even tell it was cauliflower in this meal. Meal Prep No meal prep this week. Menu Plan Saturday Lunch–Chicken Pot Pie, Dinner–Low Fodmap Slow Cooker Hamburger Vegetable Soup, Sunday Lunch–Okinamiyaki, Dinner–Chicken Thighs, beets, green beans...

Time to talk groceries. As you all know, I really enjoy grocery shopping. I get consistent feedback that you guys like these “grocery haul” kind of posts from time-to-time. I totally get that as I tend to buy the same things over and over and personally get a lot of inspiration when I see what others are buying that have similar lifestyles and dietary preferences. My grocery budget has always skewed toward the high side when I consider that I’m only shopping for myself and a small child. I am okay with that because I cook and eat the vast...