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Meatless Monday: Berry and Heirloom Tomato Salad with Yuzu Mustard Dressing

This has been my go to salad all summer long since berries are in season and plentiful locally. Yuzu is a Japanese fruit similar to a mandarin. The fruit itself is rarely eaten but it’s essence is used in all kinds of things from vinegar, ponzu sauce, tea, liquor, marmalade, cakes, and body products. I…

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Meatless Monday: Strawberry Ginger Limeade

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!! I will be honest with you, I haven’t been cooking that much except for creating new recipes for my cooking classes and cooking for my dad, which is simple macrobiotic food. Those new recipes for my classes will most likely go in my next cookbook, so I can’t share them…

Meatless Monday – Hummus 101

By Meg Claire Like any self-respecting Arab woman, I refuse to purchase mass-marketed hummus.  No brand could possibly compare to homemade, and the attempts are alternately sour or bland.  Not surprising when you realize it’s just a marketing job:  forcing “Mediterranean” flavor profiles on something so perfectly simple to start with.  My Syrian grandmother never…