Lighten Up Your Pizza: Cauliflower Pizza Crust
Whether you’re trying to fit in your skinny pants, have jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon or are just intrigued by...
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Vegan Curried Brown Rice Salad with Tempeh
For those of you who miss vegetarian month, I’m bringing you a new vegetarian recipe today (vegan actually!), which also...
My Daring Bakers Quick Bread and the True Purpose of Oscars Night
Much like with Super Bowl, Oscars night for me is an excuse to make fun food and get together with friends to drink too much on a Sunday night. Holly...
This One is For the Dogs
No, I didn’t make a meal so bad that I had to commission Lila to clean up the evidence… although that does bring to mind a funny story my Grandmother...
A Fat Tuesday Jambalaya and Our New Orleans Adventures in a Nutshell
No, Fat Tuesday is not pertaining to the tautness of my pants, although it probably could be after this past...
Our Valentine’s Day Dinner at Home
Having paid way too much for more than a few very mediocre Valentine’s Day dinners, this year, we decided to...
Butternut Squash Falafel Balls
Here’s my meatless Monday lunch, a Messy Kitchen original. I needed lunch for the week and also needed to use up the half onion, mashed squash, and half can of...
A Dish that “Screams Jo”: Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagna with Goat Cheese, Bacon and Fried Sage
I pinned this recipe a while back and one of my girlfriend’s commented “this recipe screams Jo. SCREAMS it.” She couldn’t be more right. You see, this lasagna includes...
Around the World Black Bean Burgers (A Meatless Monday Treat)
I went through six sticks of butter and two dozen eggs this weekend, which is always a sign of a...
Super Bowl XLVI: Making Paula Deen Proud
While waiting for jury duty to get underway this morning, the verbally inclined lady in the seat behind me moaned...
Magical Birthday Hats & Magic Hat Birthday Cake
There was a lot of magic involved in our celebration of Ksen’s birthday last night. Trusty’s itself is pretty magical. There’s the magical school bus bar… and the thermos and...
My Thoughts on Vegetarianism and Some Top-Notch Veggie-Friendly Eateries in D.C.
So vegetarian January was a fun experiment. Was it terrible? Not at all. Do I plan to stick to it? Absolutely not. But before I get to my thoughts on vegetarianism, why...
Winter Tofu and Vegetable Korma
Unless I go into a carnivorous rage and end up at the McDonald’s drive-through tonight ordering six quarter pounders, I will...
Spicy Kale, Sweet Potato and Chickpea Stew with Beer and Paprika
I bookmarked this recipe a while back when I was collecting vegetarian recipes for the month and didn’t read through it...
Ode to Etsy
When I started planning our wedding, I had no idea how many do-it-yourself projects we’d undertake (and Courtney had no idea what a do-it-yourself project was). But like many brides...
Five-Minute No Bake Chocolate Cake for One
I’m all about cooking healthy meals, but when it comes to dessert I generally fall into the “knock your socks off, high-calorie (and possibly with bacon-laden) in moderation” camp than the “fat-free,...