Sprout & Pea

I’ve never been a fan of mush­rooms, but that all changed this evening when I dis­cov­ered the won­der­ful fla­vors of shi­itake bacon. Recently, I’ve been attempt­ing to curb my win­ter din­ing out addic­tion and really focus on cook­ing deli­cious plant-​​based meals, and this shi­itake bacon is the per­fect way to sat­isfy my crav­ings for rich, savory meaty fla­vors. Read more:

The weather has been all over the place lately and with that, so have my eat­ing habits. It seems that this warm one day, freez­ing the next pat­tern also seems to send me into a pat­tern of home-​​cooked healthy meal one day, mac and cheese at my favorite local spot the next. On one such recent warm day, my body had had enough of eat­ing out, so when I awoke to the sun shin­ing, I imme­di­ately jumped from my bed and headed to the mar­ket for some break­fast inspi­ra­tion. Low and behold I cam across a veg­etable that I have been itch­ing to play with. Read more:

Thai food is my weak­ness in the win­ter. I say weak­ness because when I’m crav­ing it, I always order in from my favorite spot down the street and enjoy an ultra veg night on my couch with a good movie and a glass of wine. This isn’t nec­es­sar­ily a bad thing, but after order­ing thai food a few too many nights in one week, I decided it was time to take this crav­ing and turn it into some­thing pro­duc­tive– and a bit health­ier. Read more:

 You know those days where every­thing in your tiny lit­tle world seems to stand still for just long enough to take it all in? Those days where you just feel grate­ful for it all? Sat­ur­day was one of those days for me, and it was a sim­ple day too. I woke up, met my cousin for brunch and we enjoyed some deli­cious poached eggs with herbs and cheese out­side on a rare 60 degree day in Brook­lyn. We caught up, walked around, did a lit­tle shop­ping, and explored neigh­bor­hoods by foot. On our walk, I received a phone call from one of my most favorite peo­ple– just to say hello and that he was think­ing of me as he biked around where the wind took him on this unbe­liev­ably beau­ti­ful day. Read more:

As some­one who loves to cook, some­times the best dis­trac­tion from a bad day is brain­storm­ing a meal and exper­i­ment­ing in the kitchen. So, this morn­ing, a not-​​so-​​hot feel­ing me started brows­ing eggs on foodgawker, quickly to come across an image of scram­bled eggs and aspara­gus. The first thing that came to mind to com­bine with this was tar­ragon. Read more:

This week I had the oppor­tu­nity to bake some sweet treats for the lovely This­tle & Clover bou­tique in Fort Greene, Brook­lyn. The awe­some ladies who run this adorable shop hosted a trunk show with two of their fan­tas­tic design­ers, Jene DeSpain and Guy French, and I made some cute cook­ies and brown­ies to sat­isfy the hun­gry after work crowd brows­ing the gor­geous jew­els and blaz­ers on dis­play. After decid­ing on almond but­ter lap­sang brown­ies, I thought I might browse one of my favorite food blogs for a sec­ond, less choco­laty idea and so I came across these lemon and laven­der cook­ies on Elana’s Pantry. Read more: