As a kid, I loved spaghetti sandwiches made with jarred sauce and pasta on white “Italian” bread. In high school I probably wolfed them down for dinner five nights out of seven when I’d get home after hours of swim team practice. These days I love to eat spaghetti squash bolognese on true traditional sourdough toast smeared
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Fish en Papillote: A Quick & Easy Delicious Dinner
Don’t you just love how the French make the simplest things seem fancy? Wrap up fish in paper with some veggies and seasonings. Throw it in the oven, and voila – Fish en papillote! Fish en papillote – or fish packets, as I like to call them – make for a fantastic presentation at a dinner party,
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Gluten Free Deep Dish Pizza
My little family has a Friday night tradition – movie night complete with buttered popcorn, root beer, homemade ice cream, and some sort of fun, snacky dinner. Sometimes it’s homemade nachos, but our newest favorite is this gluten free deep dish pizza. Personally, I’ve found that I can digest wheat just fine as long as it’s a
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Slow Cooker Meatballs with Garden Veggie Sauce
We’ve been having some pretty wacky weather here for Southern California. Back east, my mom and the weather man used to call it HHH: hazy, hot, and humid. Definitely not a day that you want to spark up the oven and add any extra heat and moisture to your kitchen. It’s summer days like these when recipes
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The Best Ceviche Recipe for Summertime
Tanned skin in sun dresses, sandy feet in flip flops, and days that seem to stretch on forever. Oh summer, I love you. Of course, to pair with any season there are foods that can evoke nostalgia with a single bite. Summertime ceviche is one of those foods. This best ceviche recipe yields a dish that’s cold,
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Salmon Sushi Bowl
If we’re gonna be technical about it, these salmon sushi bowls are not really sushi. True sushi has rice in little balls topped with raw fish. Whatevs. I’ve got a deep love for sushi. Beautiful fish that’s so fresh it tastes like it’s just been plucked from the ocean and sliced onto my plate. I could
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Bacon Wrapped Spinach Stuffed Meatloaf
We are a bunch of busy bees at our house right now. We are getting so very, very close to launching our new meal planning site Real Plans, which is basically going to give our already-awesome meal planning service super powers. You can see a sneak peek of our new logo over on Instagram. I
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Fiery Egg Salad With Homemade Sriracha
I have fond memories of Easter as a kid. My mom would clip branches of a bright yellow blooming forsythia bush for our Easter tree that was adorned with springtime decorations. We dyed eggs, hunted them down, and ate chocolate bunnies and Cadbury mini eggs until we never wanted to eat again. And of course
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Spaghetti Squash Alfredo with Yogurt Cream Cheese
Today I’m sharing one of my favorite simple dinner recipes: spaghetti squash Alfredo. This is not your typical Alfredo sauce made with parmesan and butter (and sometimes cream). My version also includes homemade yogurt cream cheese, which adds a delightful tang that makes this dish positively addictive. So much so, that I’ve been known to
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Poutine: The Best French Fries With Gravy You’ll Ever Meet
If you have ever spent any extended amount of time ‘back east’, you know that diners are omnipresent eating institutions. While California knock-offs do their best with burgers, fries, and shakes, East Coast diners – be they in old train cars or the random building on the corner – have a special something. Ever since a
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Savory Fish Pie with Cauliflower Crust
Being married to my very own Bloke for almost a decade, I’ve learned quite a bit about British culture. Don’t tell my relatives, but some of it I just don’t get. Fawlty Towers, mincemeat pie, and pathological politeness (if you know what I mean, you know what I mean) all cause me to raise an eyebrow
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Veggie Quinoa Cakes
One of the biggest challenges of eating real food is the inconvenience factor. You know – those moments where you’re so starving and the easiest thing to do is rip something out of a package and chow down. Or stop at a drive through to scarf down a burger, fries, and milk shake. Or (historically
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