Yes, you can enjoy a pasta dinner when you eat low FODMAP! This easy homemade vegetarian lasagna recipe is made with homemade eggplant caponata, chopped kale, low FODMAP tomato sauce, and gluten-free no-boil lasagna noodles to make it even easier. ... Continue Reading about Low FODMAP Vegetarian Eggplant-Kale Lasagna
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Gluten-Free Broccoli and Sundried Tomato Pesto Pizza with Chickpea Crust
The first year of the pandemic, Friday gluten-free pizza dinners became a comforting salve in our schedule. We called it TGIF Friday pizza night…and I’ll let you guess what that extra F stands for. The weekly occurrence meant a lot of time to ... Continue Reading about Gluten-Free Broccoli and Sundried Tomato Pesto Pizza with Chickpea Crust
Skillet Veggie Quinoa Enchilada Bake (Vegetarian Low FODMAP)
My friend Serena is the queen of the quinoa bake. She is to QB’s as I am to CRC’s (chicken and rice casseroles), a bevvy of ideas and deliciousness that spans an array of cuisines and concepts. For this reason, I’ve mostly followed her recipes ... Continue Reading about Skillet Veggie Quinoa Enchilada Bake (Vegetarian Low FODMAP)
Roasted Ratatouille Low FODMAP Vegetarian Enchiladas
These vegetarian enchiladas are super easy and made flavorful with a low FODMAP mix of vegetables found in French ratatouille. The fire roasted tomato sauce is gluten-free and SO delicious. The dish is one of my favorite low FODMAP vegetarian recipes ... Continue Reading about Roasted Ratatouille Low FODMAP Vegetarian Enchiladas
Vegan BBQ “Chicken” Pizza with Cauliflower (California Pizza Kitchen Copy Cat)
This vegan CPK Copy Cat BBQ Chicken Pizza recipe is brought to you in partnership with my friends at Little Northern Bakehouse. As always opinions are 100 percent my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that make this site and my gluten-free ... Continue Reading about Vegan BBQ “Chicken” Pizza with Cauliflower (California Pizza Kitchen Copy Cat)
Warm Butternut Squash Dip with Gruyere and Pistachios
I have a love/hate relationship with butternut squash. I love eating it. But every time I perch one on my cutting board to peel, I think to myself: today will finally be the day when I call Charlie from the emergency room having just ... Continue Reading about Warm Butternut Squash Dip with Gruyere and Pistachios
Prosciutto Wrapped Figs with Grana Padano Red Onion Jam
This recipe was created in partnership with Icons of European Taste, a joint promotional program to promote Prosciutto di Parma--whose cured hams I dream about on a regular basis-Grana Padano and Prosciutto di San Daniele. For whatever reason, ... Continue Reading about Prosciutto Wrapped Figs with Grana Padano Red Onion Jam
Loaded Southwestern-Style Spicy Hummus
This spicy hummus recipe is brought to you in partnership with Sabra. I’m currently holed up at Charlie’s family home in Rhode Island. The weather outside is not frightful, but sufficiently gloomy. And the sheet of grey is calming after two ... Continue Reading about Loaded Southwestern-Style Spicy Hummus
Spinach Balls with Sunflower Seeds, Manchego and Turmeric Honey Yogurt (Gluten-Free)
Blogging is such a different ball game than it was when I started in 2008, from the dark corner of my corporate cubicle I launched my first site on a whim. It was supposed to chronicle the high high’s and low lows of entertaining friends in a ... Continue Reading about Spinach Balls with Sunflower Seeds, Manchego and Turmeric Honey Yogurt (Gluten-Free)
Baked Mexican Eggplant Parmesan with Gluten-Free Tortilla Crust
When you begin cohabitating, it doesn’t take long for your little quirks to come to light. Which, is a polite way of saying: the things that annoy the shit out of your roommate. Mine involve never refilling our Soma water pitcher and ... Continue Reading about Baked Mexican Eggplant Parmesan with Gluten-Free Tortilla Crust
Pao de Queijo a.k.a. Gluten-Free Brazilian Cheese Bread Heaven
There’s been a lot of talk and no action regarding these gluten-free Brazilian cheese breads. I know I’ve been promising a pao de queijo recipe since January, when I returned from the land of these magical cheese puffs. And you may think I’ve just ... Continue Reading about Pao de Queijo a.k.a. Gluten-Free Brazilian Cheese Bread Heaven
Sweet and Spicy Corn Pasta with Ricotta and Chives (Gluten-Free)
Last Wednesday, I gathered with 2,000 meditators in Central Park for ir collective evening of silence. After weeks of feeling like the world was on fire—a feeling that seemed unlikely to dissipate then, and has indeed in the last 24 hours, only ... Continue Reading about Sweet and Spicy Corn Pasta with Ricotta and Chives (Gluten-Free)
Elote Corn and Chicken Quesadillas with Cotija Cheese
I’ve had a long love affair with Elote—the charred Mexican street corn that’s coated in a glorious heart attack mixture of sour cream, Cotija cheese and mayonnaise. Since I enjoy any excuse to use the latter (mayo is my happy place of condiments) I ... Continue Reading about Elote Corn and Chicken Quesadillas with Cotija Cheese
Easy Mexican Breakfast Pizzas with Avocado (Gluten-Free)
The last few weeks have been marked by the impending excitement and doom of my inter-borough move. On the one hand, I wanted to cook my way through my whole pantry so I would have one less box to pack. But on the other—that is, the lazy, exhausted ... Continue Reading about Easy Mexican Breakfast Pizzas with Avocado (Gluten-Free)
Healthy Mac and Cheese with “Creamed” Spinach (Gluten-Free)
As I mentioned in my newsletter, a case of the stomach flu left me in a very unromantic state this weekend. Which meant poor Charlie was left no choice but to stay indoors eating this leftover healthy mac and cheese while I sipped bone broth and ... Continue Reading about Healthy Mac and Cheese with “Creamed” Spinach (Gluten-Free)
White Cheddar Mac and Cheese Casserole
The first half of my food career I made healthy comfort food that wasn’t exactly what most people would consider "healthy." At the time though, I pretty much thought anything homemade was more or less good for you--that a mac and cheese casserole, ... Continue Reading about White Cheddar Mac and Cheese Casserole
Easy Vegetarian Meatballs with Lentils and Quinoa (Gluten-Free)
In just a few simple steps, you can make gluten-free vegetarian meatballs at home! These veggie-packed meatballs are ready within 25 minutes and combine cooked red quinoa and lentils, hemp seeds, and Manchego or parmesan cheese to hold their shape ... Continue Reading about Easy Vegetarian Meatballs with Lentils and Quinoa (Gluten-Free)
Quinoa Brussels Sprout Gratin with Smoked Cheddar
I made this quinoa and Brussels sprout gratin a few weeks ago to bring to the second installment of my #FriendsinFood potluck dinner series. Even though I’ve been blogging since November 2008, when I started my first site, I’ve always felt a ... Continue Reading about Quinoa Brussels Sprout Gratin with Smoked Cheddar
Healthy Chicken Parmesan with Fresh Cherry Tomato Sauce
I’m sitting here bleary eyed after having gotten off a plane at 2am last night. JFK air traffic control and I are no longer friends. I had to revisit one of the amazing talks from this weekend on forgiveness as we circled the airport for 2 ... Continue Reading about Healthy Chicken Parmesan with Fresh Cherry Tomato Sauce
Smoky Roasted Butternut Squash Toasts with Manchego
When people think of healthy finger food, cheese and butter are not necessarily the first things that come to mind. But my philosophy is always to eat a lot of good with a little bad. Healthy food is always best when you can’t tell it’s healthy. ... Continue Reading about Smoky Roasted Butternut Squash Toasts with Manchego
Healthy Baked Sweet Potatoes with Spicy Turkey Sausage and Broccoli Rabe
Baked potatoes always remind me of being 13 in the back woods of Vermont. Unlike most of my friends, I opted for a less traditional camp experience. Instead of learning the merits of Color War mascot design or how to flat iron your hair after a day ... Continue Reading about Healthy Baked Sweet Potatoes with Spicy Turkey Sausage and Broccoli Rabe
Healthy Greek Potato Salad
Before going to the motherland, I had a much higher opinion of Greek octopus and potatoes than their salad. I thought that the romaine with limp olives and hyper processed crumbled feta was the Greek equivalent of General Tso’s Chicken and Baked Ziti ... Continue Reading about Healthy Greek Potato Salad
Grilled Buffalo Chicken Quesadillas
I've had a long tortured history with these buffalo chicken quesadillas. It’s not their fault. But like the tastiest of food lovers, they’ve caused me to experience some high highs and low lows. My affair with healthy buffalo chicken themed ... Continue Reading about Grilled Buffalo Chicken Quesadillas
Grilled Portobello Mushroom Burgers with Romesco and Arugula
There are few occasions where being a vegetarian is particularly depressing, and most of them involve social gatherings around a grill. I don’t know from experience of being one. But I have dealt with the annoyances of having to cook for one in less ... Continue Reading about Grilled Portobello Mushroom Burgers with Romesco and Arugula