mediterranean skillet pizza

The only excuse I will give for my inexcusable five-month hiatus from the Sprout Diaries is two small words: grad student. It’s a busy lifestyle, folks — one that I’m enjoying immensely but one that leaves little time (or brain power) for the finer things in life, like taking extra long to cook a meal…

mediterranean pasta salad

Funny how time moves fast and slow. Seen one way, this winter has been one of the longest in memory. Even though New Yorkers really can’t complain compared to the Arctic freeze Midwesterners have endured since January, it hasn’t exactly been a walk in Central Park here, either. The smattering of blue-skied, jean-jacket days that…