A food-loving girl raised on pasta and tamales
Creamy Grape and Walnut Lentil Salad For all of you chicken salad, egg salad, any type of creamy salad lovers, I give you lentil salad. Chicken salad’s vegetarian cousin. Chicken salad was actually one of the things I really enjoyed experimenting with when I first started to get into cooking, but something…
Zucchini-Noodle Lo Mein with Shrimp Earlier this week I was thrilled to receive a copy of my friend and fellow Charlotte Food Blogger’s upcoming cookbook! Megan, the writer of lifestyle blog Freckled Italian, wrote The Big 15 Paleo Cookbook: 15 Fundamental Ingredients, 150 Paleo Diet Recipes, 450 Variations, which is due out on August 16.…
Thai Summer Roll Salad Some summer days you just need to be a little bit lazy. By lazy, I mean throw dinner together, avoid the stove and give yourself some time to unwind. Maybe being summertime lazy is really being smart. I find discovered summer rolls about 4 years ago. Sure I’d had my share…
Quinoa and Watermelon Salad I am back and ready for all the summer fruit. What says summer more than watermelon?! Watermelon happens to be my favorite food. That’s a pretty bold statement I know. Of all the delicious types of food out there, and I love many of them, watermelon is the one that…
Lemon & Asparagus Pasta with Olive Oil Crumble People have strong feelings about asparagus. Like most kids, asparagus wasn’t my favorite. I was never a picky eater but I don’t remember my parents serving it much at home, and it just wasn’t something we came across often when eating. I have no memory of how…