Earlier this spring I shared a recipe for my favorite poppyseed salad dressing. I lowered the sugar content, without sacrificing flavor, by trading the regular sugar in the original recipe for Truvia Natural Sweetener. The results were so delicious that I’ve been swapping full-sugar sweeteners for Truvia Natural Sweetener in all my healthy dressings ever since! But until […]
If you follow along on my Instagram, you know that I spent much of last week eating my way through New York City with the team from KitchenAid and a crew of food and lifestyle bloggers. Each and every moment was worth writing home about—from our culinary tour of Greenwich Village to our behind-the-scenes peek […]
Is it too soon to start thinking about summer vacation? No? Good, ’cause I totally am! I’m already counting the days until I return to Italy and reprise my role as the social media advisor at one of Annette Joseph’s photography and styling workshops! One of the reasons I’m so excited is that this year […]
My neighborhood, like many here in LA, marks each weekend with a pretty spectacular farmer’s market. For much of every Sunday, the sidewalks are glutted with mums and dads pushing strollers whose handles are laden with canvas totes bulging bright bunches of carrots and dark, leafy greens. Yet week after week, I don’t avail myself of the market’s […]
I have a confession to make: I have a secret passion for corned beef and cabbage. I’d eat it by the bucketload if you let me. But I never feel quite as happy after consuming it as I do while shoveling into my mouth, thanks to the gargantuan quantity of sodium in the beef. So I’m […]
It has been raining non-stop here in LA this winter. The constant drizzle reminds me of all the things I loved about grey, chilly weather when I lived back east. There’s nothing like a taking a long nap, settling in with a juicy novel, or hunkering down on the couch for a movie when it’s […]
Last weekend’s styling workshop with Annette Joseph was impossibly fun! I had a blast teaching our students about styling and social media strategy, and as always happens I learned so much good stuff myself! One of my favorite takeaways is this 20-minute creamy tomato basil soup recipe, which Annette cooked us for lunch the second […]
My grandma was the queen of salads. She could turn even the humblest assortment of veggies and garnishes into a preparation worthy of a royal banquet. She even had special dishware for each of her creations, from the wide, flat wooden platter onto which she’d assemble a fancy composed salad to the big yellow stoneware bowl […]
I’m a total creature of habit in many ways, and food is one of them. I have a small rotation of favorite meals that I depend on during the week. Having a routine makes it easier to shop, easier to prepare when the days get hectic, and easier to make clean-eating choices when temptation arises. In fact […]
During the holiday season I went on a quest to find new, interesting, clean, and easy recipes to offset all the indulgences of the season. After scouring Pinterest without much luck, I looked farther afield and stumbled on a healthy cooking Instagram feed that I’ve been returning to ever since. The account belongs to Jill Fergus and is […]
We’ve all got someone on our gift list who spends more waking hours in the kitchen than in any other room of the house! Odds are, that person loves nothing more than to sit down on a Sunday with a stack of cookbooks and a hot cuppa, dreaming up which recipes they’ll try out next. […]
Oh boy, oh boy! Thanksgiving is so close that I can practically smell the pie and stuffing in the oven! While the holiday is 90% about food and family for me, I reserve the other 10% for my excitement over setting the table. And I especially love creating festive Thanksgiving table decor on a budget! Which is exactly what I […]