Hi there! Happy 4th of July weekend to all of my fellow Americans! I am certainly looking forward to a 3-day holiday weekend. Whose got fun plans for the 4th? I've got a beach yoga class and hanging out at a friend's house on the agenda, and I'm hoping to catch some fireworks on Saturday night. Today I'm sharing a new recipe that will probably become a go-to dinner in my kitchen. Packed with veggies and flavor, it's a healthy meal that revolves around my recent favorite kitchen gadget: my spiralizer! I've seriously been a spiralizing maniac. My hubby and I have eaten zoodles so often in the last few months, he's started joking around and putting the letter 'z' in words where it shouldn't be. For instance, we started saying 'zauce' instead of tomato sauce. He told me I ... [Read More]
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Goat Cheese Stuffed Zucchini Blossom Crostini
There are certain foods that people immersed in the healthy living world tend to be obsessed with... things that the average person isn't even aware of. Take nut butter for example. Every healthy foodie not only knows about nut butter, but probably has a dozen jars of it in their pantry at any given time. But use the term "nut butter" with a random person and ask them what their favorite is, and prepare for them to look at you like you have three heads. That's because they probably know about peanut butter, but that's all about it when it comes to nuts being processed into a smooth, creamy and dreamy spread. Foods like hemp and chia seeds are another example. If you normally have these in your kitchen, you're probably a health nut foodie. During a stint visiting my family ... [Read More]
Zucchini Puree with Oregano Cream
Happy weekend everyone! My Saturday so far has been lovely. I put my juicer to work for breakfast, finished up this week's IIN lecture, took Harley for a long walk, and visited the Morgan Hill farmers' market and health food store. Today was the first time I'd been to my town's farmers' market in awhile, and I forgot how much I love just walking around markets picking up local food. There's a certain energy at a market filled with locally grown food and the happy farmers and workers who sell it. My market picks: All of the apples I've been getting at food stores have been browning quickly and aren't as crisp. It's amazing how much crisper and fresh the apple is that I'm eating at the moment, along with some strawberries (Strawberries in January? Sure why not!) while sitting on my ... [Read More]
Oven Baked Zucchini Fries
Some days I'd love nothing more then to experiment in the kitchen for hours. Other days, I'm not in the mood for playing around when it comes to my eats. The latter was the case over Labor Day weekend. The entire three days, I just wanted to make some yummy food in as short amount of time as possible. This was my masterpiece-in-less-than-thirty-minutes meal of the weekend: It all started off with one my favorite veggies, zucchini: I adore zucchini fries. Almost anytime I see them on a restaurant menu, I'm compelled to order them. I've made zucchini fries at home numerous times, but for some reason they haven't made it onto the blog thus far, so today I'm sharing my version of zucchini fries! First, I cut the zucchinis into fry-like pieces: Next I whisk an egg in a bowl, and ... [Read More]
Amsterdam, Here I Come!
Tomorrow morning I'm heading overseas to Amsterdam for a work trip. I've been to the Netherlands once before for work and absolutely loved it. Now I get to go back for a trade show, and am looking forward to getting to see more of the city! For dinner tonight, I wanted to use produce that will probably otherwise go bad while I'm traveling. In the bottom of my fridge, I spotted 3 large squash. Being 99.9% sure that Adam would not be using them when left to his own devices in making meals, I decided to use them to make squash fritters: This recipe is from Skinny Bitch and can be found here. It was a yummy way to use up my veggies! Tomorrow is the last day to participate in my contest giveaway. If you have an idea for a fitness or healthy eating challenge, go to last Wednesday's ... [Read More]
Zucchini & Rigatoni Parmesan
When I first became a vegetarian, I was the only one in my family to not be a meat eater. My grandma, a little Italian lady who spends approximately half of her life in the kitchen cooking, used to say things like, "How are you going to find a boy if you don't eat meat? What are you going to make him for dinner or eat on a date?" [Side note: I somehow nabbed a really great guy eating salads on dinner dates and never cooking him a steak ;-) ] While she may or may not have understood my choice to go vegetarian, she always went out of her way to accommodate me with vegetarian eats, in addition to about 20 other dishes she would make for every family dinner. One of the things she used to whip up all of the time was eggplant parmesan. While I loved eggplant, I somehow developed an allergy ... [Read More]