one body.

You may or may not know that this week was National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. I wanted to do a post in honor of it, but I’ve been struggling to figure out exactly what I want to say.

This past weekend, I visited my grandmother at a rehab center in [...]

mealtime observations over a week in february.

stovetop oats pre-mixing: oats, soy milk, banana, frozen blueberries, coconut oil, cinnamon, flax, later topped with almond butter

The stronger my coffee, the better my bowl of oatmeal tastes.  I adore that duo of sweet banana and black bitterness.

brown rice pasta, broccoli, kale, scallops, butternut squash and sage sauce [butternut puree, hemp [...]

feels like summer.

So, it’s February 24th; it’s raining with a chance of snow.  When I arrived home in a downpour late last night, I didn’t manage to shake that raw winter chill from my bones until several minutes after I had climbed underneath my covers.  I’ve definitely reached my winter breaking point.

It happens every year, sometime in [...]

personalized comfort food.

I had to run a couple errands after work yesterday, which didn’t afford me much in the way of cooking time in the evening.  Not to suggest that I need to eat by a certain hour [it's pretty typical for me to eat dinner around 8, so all those rules about not eating too late [...]

crunchy gals cook [and sip wine].

On Thursday, after my second successful day of employment, [during which I did some reading, proofreading, and editing and thanked the world that writing is now what I actually do], I headed straight to the apartment of my favorite crunchy gal, Sofia, for an evening we deemed fit for “classy ladies.”  That’s what I strive [...]