lentil & pearl barley spring salad with pickled mustard seeds

lentil & pearl barley spring salad with pickled mustard seeds

Earlier this week I wrote about my trip to Hollywood for the launch of Albertsons new Signature product line. What I am most excited about is that with over 4000 products, it’s easy to stock the panty with whole food staples at a great price without sacrificing...
roasted beets with salted yogurt

roasted beets with salted yogurt

My dad is in his late 80’s and still grows a garden big enough to feed a small third world nation. Everyone tells him that he should cut back. Make the garden smaller. Grow less. Spend more time relaxing and less time planting, and harvesting, and weeding. My...
chickpea, quinoa and roasted yam salad

chickpea, quinoa and roasted yam salad

Keeping it healthy, for me, is all in the preparedness. If I’m ravished and the first thing I see is a box of crackers, that’s what gets inhaled. So most Sundays I try to carve out a little time to fill the fridge with healthy go-to’s and hopefully...
blueberry chicken salad

blueberry chicken salad

It’s odd that for someone that tries to eat a salad almost every day – especially this time of year – that there’s so few recipes in my salad collection on this website. I think that’s because salads are often impromptu for me. A means of cleaning...
farro, cherry & walnut salad

farro, cherry & walnut salad

Summer is here and the calendar is already populated with BBQ’s so I’m always looking for an addition to the table that I will know will be unique in the sea of potato and pasta options. It also helps me rest assured when salads are not dairy or mayo based that they...