Sprout & Pea

Arti­chokes are my favorite veg­etable and this is in part because I grew up eat­ing them with my mom’s deli­cious mayo, shal­lot and lemon sauce — a sauce that doesn’t exactly add any health fac­tor to this beau­ti­ful, nutri­tious green veg­etable. I’ve attempted a vari­a­tion on the sauce in the past using Greek yogurt but it just wasn’t quite the addic­tive sauce that I grew up with. Try­ing my best to get back into a healthy eat­ing rou­tine, when I found myself crav­ing an arti­choke tonight, I decided I would pick up some vegan mayo to make the dip­ping sauce with. To my sur­prise, there was only one brand avail­able on the shelf at Whole Foods and the list of ingre­di­ents were end­less and for­eign to me. I put it down and decided to try to make my own vegan mayo.

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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:

Some nights you just need a pint of Ben & Jerry’s. The other night was one of those nights and my (tal­ented) friend who is stay­ing with us just so hap­pened to read my mind. I returned home from a long flight back to NY and arrived at my apart­ment around mid­night ready to crash. When I walked in the door I was greeted with a big hug and not one, but two kinds of Ben & Jerry’s. So I stayed up for a while talk­ing with my won­der­ful friend and glut­to­nously ate my New York Super Fudge Chunk straight out of the con­tainer. I love to indulge in some ice cream now and then, but I also have my lim­its so there was quite a bit left over the next night. Read more: