Month: May 2021

Beans, legumes & grains, Dinner, Recipes

Chana Masala-Inspired Shepherd’s Pie

Hey babes, If you’re like most of the western world, you probably grew up with a set of staple dishes rotating across your dinner table. For those of us from blue collar families with stay-at-home moms, that usually meant simple, hardy dishes. Being from the southwest, that meant lots of Tex-Mex, beans, cornbread, and chilis, […]

Fruits, Recipes, Snacks

Seedy (Fruit) Strip Joint

Hey babes! If you’ve managed to forgive me for that incredible post title, welcome aboard. I appreciate your appreciation for a good/bad dad joke. Love ya! But in all seriousness, today we are talking about a much more salacious kind of stripping: the kind that involves a vegetable peeler. Yep, we’re talking about snacks! I […]

Dinner, Fruits, Recipes

Tinga de Yaca

Hola bebes, Feliz Cinco de Mayo! For the uninitiated, Cinco de Mayo celebrates the anniversary of the first Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, where Mexican forces succeeded in fending off an assault by a much larger and better equipped French force on the city of Puebla. The victory was a huge inspiration to […]