Sprout & Pea

I love dis­cov­er­ing new food blogs and recently I stum­bled across Have Cake Will Travel. After spend­ing far too much time on my lunch break brows­ing through deli­cious recipes, I stopped on one that really caught my eye, and more impor­tantly my stom­ach. It was a recipe for a vegan peanut but­ter banana bacon sand­wich. The best part about this is that the “bacon” is actu­ally smoky roasted chick­peas. This sounded bril­liant as both a snack and a bacon sub­sti­tute. Read more:

Hearts of palm were always one of my favorite salad addi­tions grow­ing up. My mom intro­duced me to them at a young age and I could often be found snack­ing on them when most kids would be snack­ing on potato chips (don’t worry, I also snacked on potato chips). I had never really thought to do much else with them aside from toss­ing them into a salad. That was until I came across a recipe for a vegan BLT that included a hearts of palm spread. Read more:

There’s no telling what is in store for 2012 and frankly I find that excit­ing. I do know that my last days of 2011 and first days of the new year were spent in sun­shine with loved ones and good food, and if that’s any indi­ca­tion for the direc­tion this year is headed, I’ll take it. I flew down to Miami to ring in the new year with my best friend Farah, her new hubby and their gor­geous new house. When Farah started talk­ing about menu plan­ning, I imme­di­ately took the reins and tossed out dishes that I was itch­ing to con­tribute. She wanted to make an orzo pasta salad and I took that as an oppor­tu­nity to give myself a lit­tle cre­ative chal­lenge. Read more: