Healthy Spanish Rice & Fajitas for the Family!

Healthy Spanish Rice Recipe & Fajitas for the Family! I don’t know about you, but I love meals where everyone can choose what they want to add to their own dish. Last week I saw a recipe for “Anything Goes Fajitas” on www.JewishFoodExperience.com and decided that was the feast I was going to make for …

Celebrate Passover like Mayim Bialik! + Healthy Tips

Oh, Mayim Bialik, you are responsible for my downfall! The Chocolate Truffle Pie that I linked to in my Healthy Passover post was total crack!

Healthy Passover Recipes? Yes!

I look at the week as a great opportunity to do a few things that I try to do the rest of the year (maybe I’ll do a little better though…):
1. Stay away from processed vegan foods (like the sour cream, cream cheese, and fake meats)
2. Be adventurous with vegetables!

5 Products for a Healthier, Sustainable Home

5 Products for a Healthier & Sustainable Home Just like my sister would say that you should build your wardrobe with high-quality foundation pieces, so should you build your healthy home. Just a few substitutions and you’re on your way to a more sustainable and healthier family. More sustainable because you aren’t using as many …

Cooking it all: Better than Vegan by Del Sroufe

Del Sroufe is known for a few specific accomplishments. First, he wrote the Forks Over Knives cookbook. Second, he has written a new cookbook, “Better than Vegan.” The reason he wrote this new cookbook highlighting a whole foods, plant-based way of eating, is because of another one of his remarkable accomplishments: Getting up to 475 pounds as a vegan!

2 Recipes: Vegan Hamantaschen and a Bonus Dessert!

Vegan Purim Success! As I start thinking about my first Passover as a vegan (and not just vegetarian), I’m happy to report a successful first vegan Purim. I can’t eat most of the candy (good for me!) and had to make my own to get vegan hamantaschen (I hear there is one brand that is …

Tips & Tricks from a Foodie turned Food Editor!

Shifra Klein, Editor-in-Chief, for Joy of Kosher Magazine This past Sunday I had the pleasure of attending Shifra Klein’s presentation for my Chabad Women’s Circle. Shifra is the Editor-in-Chief for Joy of Kosher magazine. She started out as a foodie, then created Bitayavon magazine with her husband, before joining forces with cookbook author Jamie Geller’s Joy of …

My first blog for The Nosher, My Jewish Learning

See below for my first blog for My Jewish Learning’s The Nosher Blog. Maple Squash Pudding When I first tasted the delicious, and later ubiquitous, butternut squash kugel, I thought I was eating something healthy. However, there is a reason it tasted like cake: It was cake. My Shabbat host readily admitted that that kugel …