Sprout & Pea

There’s a first time for every­thing and this week was both my first bike acci­dent and my first time mak­ing lentils. My week­end started off great with friends and fam­ily in town– birth­day cel­e­bra­tions, brunches, din­ners, a whole lot of cake and a whole lot of love. On Sun­day, we decided to make the most of my guests’ last day in town and also take advan­tage of the fleet­ing 80 degree weather. So, my friends rented some bikes and we set out for the tour de Brook­lyn (not to be con­fused with the Tour de Taco- an actual annual and awe­some event). Things started out great and it was shap­ing up to be a beau­ti­ful after­noon. Then it hap­pened– my tire and the side­walk got into a lit­tle quar­rel that resulted in my face meet­ing the ground. Read more:

I’ve come across avo­cado pasta in my inter­net food scour­ing sev­eral times over the past few years and I’ve always been tempted to make it, but I’ve also always been a bit weary of the idea. Some­thing about the thought of a warm avo­cado sauce left an uneasy feel­ing in my stom­ach, although as a lover of baked avo­ca­dos and of gua­camole, I’m not so sure why. Read more:

I actu­ally first made these for Cinco de Mayo two weeks ago. The ladies I was feed­ing, how­ever, devoured the entire dish before I had the chance to take a photo. So, on this rainy Sun­day, with a han­ker­ing for Mex­i­can food that I just can’t seem to kick, I made them again. My room­mate, to say the least, was quite happy to test them out for a sec­ond time.

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On Sun­day, my room­mate and I hosted an Oscar party at our apart­ment which excited me not only because it was an oppor­tu­nity to get dressed up, but because it was a great excuse for me to try out some new recipes for my friends. I’m a sucker for some good gua­camole, and a fiend for Greek yogurt in any recipe, so when it came time to make some party dips, I decided I would try a lit­tle some­thing dif­fer­ent and com­bine the two.
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Happy birth­day to my friend Katie in Mon­treal who sent me her recipe for this deli­cious veg­gie chili that I made last night! I’ve really been crav­ing chili recently but I had never made it before. I’ve come across many recipes but they all gen­er­ally sound too heavy. Then, as I was talk­ing to Katie a few days ago about Sprout & Pea, she told me she makes a pretty mean chili these days.
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My room­mate was nice enough to meet me after work to run some errands this week. Not so sur­pris­ingly, after a cold walk home, we were both crav­ing warm Mex­i­can food. Instead of shelling out money at our favorite local spot, I decided to make a big steam­ing bowl of impro­vi­sa­tional layer dip.  We had some Can­nellini beans and extra sharp ched­dar cheese at home, so we just picked up some ingre­di­ents to make some gua­camole and I tossed it all into a Pyrex layer by layer and baked it in the oven.

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