Category Archive: Healthy

“Green” Bean and Tomato Salad

First, a note: if you start with beautiful three-colored beans, do not do anything that involves blanching them (like this recipe from Ligonier Country Market) because the purple beans will lose their color!… Continue reading

Cabbage Packages with Ricotta and Mushrooms

Of course I was at the store and deliberately put back the savoy cabbage when I saw the regular, only to later choose a recipe from Waitrose that calls for savoy. But I… Continue reading

Pumpkin Seed Coconut ‘Granola’

‘Granola’ in quotes because there’s no grains, which is where I would assume the ‘gran’ part is from. Anyway… I was inspired by this delicious granola-fruit-honey-yogurt-spices concoction I got for brunch over the… Continue reading

Kale, Broccoli, Chicken Salad with Yogurt Mustard Dressing

First of all, if you’re ever wondering what to do with your dejected broccoli stems, shred them up and put them in salad. They make a great replacement for cabbage in cole slaw,… Continue reading

Lemon-Oregano Salmon with Roasted Tomatoes

A friend who was over while I was cooking said, “You don’t need to do all that fancy stuff to salmon.” Well, that may be true, but do it anyway because the result… Continue reading

Caramelized Radicchio Quiche with Coconut Flour Crust

When my mom was here she left a head of radicchio, and I wondered if I could use it to make quiche, since pretty much all I have in my apartment is eggs.… Continue reading

Halvah Bars

These bars really just taste like halvah, except that the texture is different, and they’re not as crazy sweet, so basically you can eat them for breakfast – or whenever – and not… Continue reading

Kale Sausage Split Pea Soup

This one came about because I had sausage and kale and decided to look on Gojee for something to do with them. And there I found a recipe that called for lentils which… Continue reading

Shaved Sweet Potato and Asparagus with Sausage Crumbles

I had read this thing about how good sweet potatoes and asparagus are for you, and then I went out and bought them, and then I wondered if there was anything I could… Continue reading

Squash ‘Crostini’ with Roasted Garlic and Fennel

So I think I’m officially an adult – based on the fact that I apparently love fennel, and that was one of those foods that, growing up, my mom loved and I thought… Continue reading