BAKE ME: Apple Cake for the High Holidays

On Sunday night the Jewish New Year, otherwise known as Rosh Hashana, begins. The holiday spans two days and is filled with prayer, family and food. It is customary to eat apples and honey throughout

LOCAL: A Mast Brothers Chocolate Shop Grows In Brooklyn

Every couple days Gilt and Gilt City emails land in my Gmail box. Over the last couple months I hadn’t seen anything that excited me to the point of buying it. Then I saw that

CHEESY: Eggplant Pizza Melts

Last week I picked up a beautiful white eggplant at the South Orange Farmer’s Market. I knew it would be perfect to make my famous eggplant pizza melts! While I didn’t have any shredded cheese

BREAKFAST: Strawberry Banana Almond Milk Smoothie

We ALWAYS have extra bananas in the house. Unfortunately, we can never finish an entire bunch before they start to turn. Lately, I have been slicing up the bananas just as they are about to turn brown and

Farmers Market

VEGGIES: Spicy Zucchini Pickles

I love a good pickle. In fact, I typically have three to four different kinds in the refrigerator at all times. If there is a new pickle vendor at the farmers market I have to try

Bake Me

CHEESY: Cheesy Riced Cauliflower Tomato Bake

We have been on a riced cauliflower kick ever since (FINALLY) finding it at Trader Joe’s. I know we are a little late to the riced cauliflower party. We had been wanting to try it

Blueberries

SAUCES AND SPREADS: Homemade Blueberry Cherry Jam

As you probably know by reading my blog, I am a HUGE fan of the farmer’s market. See HERE, HERE AND HERE. We go ALL THE TIME. In addition to our weekly trip to the

Appetizer

SWEET: Honey Roasted Rosemary Figs

Remember those figs that I picked up from the Clinton Conover Farm Stand down by the shore in Stone Harbor? They were perfectly plump and beautiful! I was struggling with what to do with them, and

Adventure

LOCAL: Make Way for Mimi Chengs Dumplings

For the last six months we have been hearing all sorts of amazing chatter about Mimi Chengs Dumplings in New York City. E and I are BIG into dumplings. Our dumpling obsession is almost as bad (aka

Easy

VEGGIES: Israeli Salad

The past few weeks my garden has been overgrown with loads of cucumbers and tomatoes. I have been making (and freezing) lots of homemade tomato sauce. Recipe coming soon! We have also been eating a

Apples