Marion Cotillard (photog. Mario Testino) / via my Pinterest I feel like legumes deserve an apology from me. For so long the dodgy, mass produced versions of legume salads that lurk in the corners of supermarket delis, constituted the sum total of my legume-salading experience and it put me off big time. I…
Month: November 2014
Learning Curves: What I Did Wrong and What I Do Now (#2 – VEGETABLE FIASCO)
This is the second installment in my Learning Curves series. Check out the first post here: ♥ Learning Curve #1: Zero Preparation Learning Curves: What I Did Wrong and What I Do Now (#2 – VEGETABLE FIASCO) For years I had the crazy notion that vegetable-heavy dishes needed dairy in them or…
Sweet Orange & Walnut Quinoa with Fruit
Quinoa gets a lot of love from people at lunch and dinner time, but it is also an awesome option for breakfast. It has has so much strong, slow-release energy, and is basically guaranteed not to leave you feeling sluggish. Sweet deal. My first time eating quinoa I cooked it myself, and my reaction boiled…
Decadent Chocolate Creme (Or: A Surprisingly Delicious Way to Eat Avocados)
Avocado as dessert? Uhh… what?! That was my initial reaction when I learned of the whole foods trick of giving chocolate sweet treats an avocado base; no way was that culinary train wreck going to taste fantastic. A couple of months went by, and I moved into might-be-crazy-enough-to-work territory. And if there is one…