Amy's Vegan Day

A few weeks ago a local university emailed out that they were looking for families to host students for dinner. Aaron and I jumped on the ch...

The food company Annie's has two amazing salad dressings: Goddess, which is vegan, and Green Goddess, which is not. When I was in high s...

At a work meeting yesterday someone brought cheese and crackers as a snack and I couldn't stop staring. I'm chalking it up to the ba...

Don't get me wrong, I love my granola bars , but I was in the mood for a different kind of noshy, healthy snack. I've been really en...

If I don't have anything in particular planned for dinner (and my chef of a husband isn't cooking me one of his fantastic meals that...

If you've been reading this blog on the regular you've probably heard me lamenting about the lack of yogurt in my life (if you think...

I started making white bean hummus several years ago when I bought cannellini beans for hummus because the store was out of chickpeas. And I...

At the risk of discouraging you from reading this post, I have never liked ricotta cheese. When I ate dairy I tolerated small amounts of it ...

When I was a kid, pate was the ultimate "gross food." The how-could-anyone-think-to-eat-this food. One of those foods you never ev...

Who doesn't love soft pretzels? I had one nearly every day in high school (yup, Mom, that's where all my lunch money went) and while...

I love bread. Even in our society's darkest days when people were afraid of carbs, it was cool. More for me. I used to be intimidated by...

When Aaron says things like "I would buy Clif bars more often if they weren't so expensive," I hear "I am challenging you...

I. Love. Hummus. Hummus with veggies, hummus on toast, hummus on a spoon, twice I've had restaurants make me a quesadilla with hummus in...

I made this dressing for this salad recipe that I saw on a Buzzfeed post recently. And by saw I mean I literally just glanced at the pictur...

If you live in or near the Chicago suburbs you have likely (I hope!) been to Pita Inn , a glorious fast-food Middle Eastern restaurant. One ...

Inspired by the mango vinaigrette  I decided to go with a peach vinaigrette. Our friends had a housewarming party a few weeks ago and while ...

Aaron made an amazing  risotto a while back and asked if they made vegan parmesan cheese. I haven't seen it commercially, and other than...

Well it has certainly been a while since I posted! Not that I haven't been cooking, but getting married and trying to by a condo at the ...

Chocolate what  muffins, you say? These muffins were my experiment to see how many vegetables I could cram into a chocolate muffin and sti...