Category Archives: Soups & Salads

Green Salad with Roasted Squash, Apple, and Grapes

Green Salad with Roasted Squash, Apple, and Grapes

My friend Aimee from Small Eats recently posed a question about food phases. She was talking specifically about her Thai food phase, having posted a photo on Instagram of Meatless Kabocha Curry (the recipe for which is on her site, btw). This whole mention of food phases started me thinking. Aside from a year orContinue Reading

Wild Rice and Mushroom Salad for Whole Grain Sampling Day (+ a giveaway)

Wild Rice and Mushroom Salad for Whole Grain Sampling Day (+ a giveaway)

The giveaway is now closed. Congratulations, Julie! I hope that you enjoy the whole grain goodies! In the interest of full disclosure, I was provided a slew of whole grain products to sample, but was not otherwise compensated for this post. As always, all opinions are my own. Like the 81% of Americans who areContinue Reading

Blood Orange and Goat Cheese Salad

Blood Orange and Goat Cheese Salad

The citrus craving that I succumbed to months ago – following an overload of starch, gravy, and meat around Thanksgiving – continues. My new favorite lunch is this blood orange and goat cheese salad, inspired in part by a relentless craving for oranges (please see previous posts. There’s a lot of orange in them tharContinue Reading

Leftover Turkey and Wild Rice Soup

Leftover Turkey and Wild Rice Soup

Oh, what a letdown the Sunday following Thanksgiving is. The best holiday of the year is over, with it, the fun of a long, leisurely weekend with family recedes into memory, and a return to work is only hours away. Boo. Hiss. To add to this year’s Thanksgiving-is-over melancholy, a cold rain has been fallingContinue Reading

Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value Blogger Challenge: Potluck Entrees

Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value Blogger Challenge: Potluck Entrees

Whole Foods is hosting a 365 Blogger Challenge for Boston-area food bloggers. The recipes have to feature 365 Everyday Value brand products, and be suitable for a potluck entree. One incentive to enter is that a donation will be made to to a food-related charity of the winning blogger’s choice. I’m keeping my fingers crossed,Continue Reading