Sprout & Pea

Recently, Bob­bye, a Sprout & Pea reader asked me if I made my own quinoa pasta. Well, Bob­bye, I never had but you inspired me to give it a go! I brought up the idea while I was home over Thanks­giv­ing and my mom was equally excited about it so together we attempted to make some quinoa ravi­oli. It turns out all you need to make this pro­tein packed pasta is some quinoa flour, arrow­root pow­der and eggs. We were skep­ti­cal about how easy the recipe sounded but if it turned out well, it would be an excit­ing solu­tion to not being able to pur­chase quinoa ravi­oli or tortellini at the store. Read more:

When we’re not hav­ing fleet­ing days of sum­mer weather, it cer­tainly feels like fall has arrived, and I’m enjoy­ing every minute of it. The cozy sweaters, the nights snug­gled up with your loved ones enjoy­ing a glass of wine, the din­ner par­ties galor. The one thing that most sig­ni­fies fall to me is food. That tran­si­tion into hol­i­day spices and warm meals is one that com­forts me to no end. After mak­ing an impro­vi­sa­tional stuff­ing with car­damom, orange zest, gin­ger and honey, I found myself days later still crav­ing the taste and aroma of car­damom. Read more:

Ever since I pur­chased my ice cream machine, I’ve been rack­ing my brain for inter­est­ing ingre­di­ents to toss into it. I had big plans to make pineap­ple sage ice cream with the fresh greens I picked from the gar­den, but unfor­tu­nately when I went to grab them from my refrig­er­a­tor the other day, they had wilted to an unpleas­ant state. I was still in the mood to mix up some ice cream, so I turned to another unusual ingre­di­ent in my kitchen– rose­wa­ter. I had a feel­ing I would find this pretty tasty as I tend to like uncon­ven­tional com­bi­na­tions, but the real test would be the palettes of my friends. Read more:

When Brook­lyn starts to get cold, it seems there’s no bet­ter way to spend a week­end or evening than cozied up with good friends shar­ing deli­cious food, and this week­end was chock full of this. Sat­ur­day after­noon, I braved the cold and biked over to a friend’s for a fan­tas­tic brunch com­plete with amus­ing games and scrump­tious food.
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