Baked Nut Butter Chicken Nuggets

I love chicken nuggets. I know, really sophisticated of me? Ha! Edited to Add: I was born and (mostly) grew up in Texas, where fried chicken was on the weekly menu rotation, at least in my earliest years. I’ve always loved it. Just the smell of it makes me nostalgic. But I can’t always eat [...]

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Mission Fig Jam with Warm Fall Spices

    Canning and preserving has always both scared and fascinated me. On the one hand, it seems so practical, nourishing, and creative. It conjures up images of pantries full of summer’s bounty that can be enjoyed on cold, snowy nights. On the other hand, it strikes me as highly technical and like there’s all [...]

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Stuffed Baby Eggplants with Sour Cherry Pomegranate Sauce

Maybe I”m too easily amused, but a trip to the farmer’s market is one of the highlights of my week. I’m quite obsessed with farmer’s markets, really. To the point that I’ll always try to hit up the local markets when I travel. It’s a cool way to get a feel for a city or [...]

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Quickie Tabouli Avocado Salad

Hey Guys! I’ve been totally MIA, I’m well aware of this. For me, so-called “Summer Hours” involve working two jobs, so it’s not like I’ve been living a life of leisure in, say, the Caribbean. I WISH. So for days when I’m on the go, this avocado tabouli salad is a quick solution. It’s so [...]

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Green Herb Hummus

Today’s recipe isn’t so much a recipe. It’s more of a template, that you can adjust and re-configure to your liking. Motivated by hunger but de-motivated by the heat to cook, I ended up making a really great hummus with what I had on hand, and figured I’d pass along my results to you. By [...]

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FaRAWfel-Raw Falafel and an Afternoon Walk in El Barrio

I’ve been really into raw foods lately. I find that as the weather warms, I like more salads, more smoothies, and lighter, cooler fare. Such choices feel better to me. Raw food fits the bill beautifully, and it energizes me quite nicely. However, there’s no reason we can’t pack our raw goodies with some good [...]

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Levant Style Marinated Olives

Once, many moons ago, I didn’t like olives. Yes, I know, hard to believe, right, especially seeing as I pretty much live for them now! I think my dislike stemmed in part from the fact that up until a few years ago, most olives available in the United States were mainly canned or jarred and [...]

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Energizing Double Cabbage Salad with Tahini Lemon Garlic Dressing

I love salads. Yes, I’m quite aware that some people might not believe me when I say this. That’s understandable. In too many instances, salads are a lame side dish or something to be “gotten through” en route to the main meal. Let’s take a moment, though, to open our minds to the possibilities. Salads [...]

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Sweet Memories of Halva

One of my Yoga students and I were talking recently about found objects. He was rocking a sweater that he’d lost for two years. He’d come across it recently, buried deep in a closet. He was slightly thrilled to have pulled it from the abyss. It was there waiting for him all along, it seemed, [...]

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Zesty, Zippy Zatar! Plus a Simple Zatar Dip Recipe

Zatar. Not many of my friends have heard of this wonderful stuff, so I often serve it as an app at dinner parties to spread the good word. So what is it? It’s generally a mixture of toasted sesame seeds. . . . . .and very finely ground dried herbs and spices. There are probably [...]

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