Category: Vegetables

7 Reasons You Should Drink Them + The Best Starter Green Smoothie Recipe Ever Green smoothies are the new coffee. You can quote me on that. Well.. Coffee is not going anywhere fast. But green smoothies [and green juices]  are coming in hot. Just you wait. And for good reason too. They’ll actually give you […]

Don’t laugh, but for some reason I always though curry was a hard thing to make. It always seemed too flavorful and complex to even try at home, for a simple little cook like me. Read: too lazy to bother with it I’d left it to the pros. A typical Sarah order at any Asian […]

Spinach-Artichoke Dip usually reads something like this: Mayonnaise. Cream cheese. Cheese. Sour Cream. tiny amount of spinach. tiny amount of artichoke. Not that I don’t love cheese. I do. As a flavor enhancer. Not as a gut bomb. Call me a minimalist, but by using greek yogurt (full fat, of course because fat is naturally […]

Ingredients: 3 thin sweet potatoes or yams (I used a mixture of the two for great color– look for long thin potatoes, they will cook faster than round, fat ones) olive oil spices: sea salt + cinnamon + Hungarian paprika (optional) Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 375 2. Slice yams or sweet potatoes into thin […]

So. While I’d like to think that you (my amazing readers), took a more relaxed and balanced approach to the holiday season this year, (meaning that you don’t feel the need to INTENSELY DETOX immediately come these first few weeks of January), I’m gonna keep it real. Because I know how it can go. This […]

Want to cure your holiday hangover and get back to good already? The best advice I can give you is this: Eat dark leafy greens. Every day this week. Spinach, collard greens, arugula, chard, or the most trendy and healthy of them all– kale. Now, I know that a raw kale salad doesn’t sound appealing […]

Thanksgiving Prep & Pep Talk How to make it through the weekend feeling happy, healthy + thankful: 1. Be Grateful:  Shockingly, this day is not all about the food, drinking, or family time– although those things are amazing, and are a fun addition to the day. But, at the core, Thanksgiving is a day (and […]

I ate sweet potatoes and yams as a kid. And liked them. Really. Liked them. As long as it was 1) on Thanksgiving and 2) as long as they were covered in massive amounts of puffy marshmallows. Which means I ate only marshmallows for Thanksgiving dinner. After trying– desperately– to wipe off with the stubborn […]

THE VIDEO + RECIPE How To: Make Spaghetti Squash Ingredients: 1 spaghetti squash (or a few if you have the oven space) olive oil + sea salt + pepper Directions: 1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees 2. Slice bottom and top ends off of the spaghetti squash and discard. Stand the squash up, vertically, on […]

Tomatoes for dinner. Tis the season, as they say. Why not? So maybe I’m not over my European style of eating just yet. I’m gonna roll with it. None of you have complained yet. You don’t need a recipe for this one, and you can adjust it however you’d like or keep it as pictured: […]

Let’s get right down to it today. Why this recipe is Sarah-approved & so very awesome? Let me count the ways: Seasonal– romaine lettuce & tomatoes are at peak season right now. That means great taste and cheaper prices too! Inexpensive- using good quality chicken as a topping instead of the main part of the […]

Those Italians, they really have it down. Life, that is. After 2 weeks of bopping around, I’ve never felt more strongly about it. I checked a few places, just to be sure. Sardinia -> Corsica -> Florence -> Taromina, Sicily -> Rome, to be exact. From island to city to cliff dwelling life, it’s confirmed. […]