Dear Lidia, you are the best for giving us, among many things, delicious Brussels sprouts. Love, Nina. Click here for the recipe and to read more.

Need to introduce more vegetables into your diet? What about some protein? Vegetable Bin Soup with Quinoa has got you covered. Obvious plus: it’s de-licious. Think a mouthful of fresh veggies in a spiced, hot, tomato-based broth. Click here for the recipe and to read more.

Arepas, the delicious, corn-based Wonderbread equivalent of Latin America. Except they’re homemade, deep fried and delicious. Oh yeah, and they are stuffed with cheese. So, they’re much, much better. Click here for the recipe and to read more.

Quick and easy Bruschetta, it’s a great way to use up the last of summer’s beautiful tomatoes, and a phenomenal bed for a roasted bevy of fall and winter’s produce. Click here for the recipe and to read more.

Perfect things exist.  Hummus, plain old garbanzo bean and tahini hummus is perfect in the way some simple things just are. The obvious response is, of course, to mess with hummus.  Take something perfect and make it, well, green. It’s simple, just as simple as hummus is in fact.  Take the perfect equations of tahini, [...]

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So, I’ve taken a little vacation.  The post-vacation-vacation.  Because after tanning and resting and consuming a block’s worth of New York goodies ala cupcakes, cookies and custard, you need a little break.  I mean, really. Over the past few weeks, I’ve learned quite a lot, most of it relatively useless, albeit amusing.  At the top [...]

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When I made this pasta, this perfect little dish of springtime ribbons, tasty caramelized vegetables and salty, sharp Parmesan, the city was beautiful.  Being Chicago, spring decided to appear mid-May, and it was about time.  All the typical players were up—young, excited spring shoots, full bushy trees, just opening tulips, daffodils etc.  It was lovely, [...]

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