Have you tried the black bean pasta at Trader Joe’s? Love it? Hate it? We bought some a while back and were kind of turned off by using it in place of pasta with marinara sauce (which is what TJ’s recommends – bleh!) BUT using it for a zesty pasta salad — that we love. In…
Category: DINNER
Soft Butter with Fresh Herbs
This super rainy and hot summer has been making my herbs grow like crazy! Am I alone here? Does anyone else have an absurd amount of herbs right now?! Here’s a super simple and delish way to put some of those excess herbs to use. Spread this herbed butter on toast, slather on mashed potatoes…
Fresh Strawberry Kale Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
Ok, sorry for all the pics on this one… Actually, no I’m not sorry. This salad is fresh and bright and bootyful and the perfect ode to summer. Hope you like looking at it as much as I like eating it! Nom nom nom… Not to mention, this super simple lemon vinaigrette is zesty and…
10-minute Chicken Flatbread White Pizza
You guys know I love pizza, right? It’s a food I can’t live without and I LOVE making kinda homemade pizza using pita or naan for the crust. Obviously, this isn’t gluten-free or paleo but it is healthier than the alternative of ordering a pizza smothered in sauce and cheese, which I’ve been known to…
Weeknight Ratatouille
I decided to make this dish a week or so ago because Eric and I had our friends Josh & Megan over for din din. They’re both vegetarian while Eric and I are paleo – preeeeetty different tastes. Fun fact: I was veg for all of high school and college and only recently started eating…
Painted Fork 