One Girl’s Quest to Stop Eating Lean Cuisines

With the exception of a few months here and there, my freezer through college mostly looked like this:

See, when your diet consists of mostly Lean Cuisines and tequila shots, you learn how to exisit on sodium fumes and overly processed chicken. But my parents are organic health wackos and I have aspirations of giving birth to healthy children someday–and I don’t think setting the table with Smart Ones Angel Hair Pasta is really something the Mom from Leave It to Beaver would do.

Anywho, I have the summer off work (I’m moving to LA in August), so I figured I might as well learn how to cook. My boyfriend’s mom is an amazing Italian cook and my own mother is one of the best bakers around, so I was a little (read:majorly) intimated to walk into a kitchen when I didn’t even know the difference between convection oven and a regular oven. But in a weirdo swing of events, it turns out I’m not too shitty at it. Much to the surprise of just about everyone, I might add. As the frequently mentioned boyfriend told me, “You were never bad…you’re just a lot better than I thought you’d be.”

Anywho, this week I’ll be sharing a few recipies I’ve picked up along the way. Enjoy!