back in action.

I’ve got my mojo back.

on a bed of kale and amaranth: sauteed onion, broccoli, and chickpeas, drenched in pumpkin-tahini sauce.

Goodbye rut of boredom, hello stovetop fun.

perfectly complete salad to-go: french lentils, brown rice, soaked arame, carrot, broccoli, cashews, miso, agave, rice vinegar.

As I was adjusting to the changes in my life, [...]

sweet sesame.

Nut butters get a lot of love in the healthy foodie world.  Raise your hand is you’ve ever praised peanut or almond butter: those two garner a particularly hefty amount of adoration.  Coconut butter seems to have built up an equally vocal band of devotees [*hint*, Chanukkah present, *hint*].

current favorite salad: beet greens, [...]

imitation; inspiration.

Don’t forget to enter my Stonyfield giveaway!

In one of my creative writing courses in college, an assignment I particularly enjoyed was “rewriting” a short story we had read as a class.  Our task was to choose one element to imitate, then use it to develop a piece with our own voice.  Highlighting the work of [...]

the joy of cooking; dinner deliciousness.

I think I was destined to fall in love with cooking – it’s in my blood.  My family has been cooking for generations.  Our traditional dishes [blintzes, apple pie] were carried across the Atlantic and through Ellis Island by my great-grandparents.  My grandmother has often shared stories of her cooking trials and triumphs as a young [...]

randomness and awards.

Recently, I have been honored to be tagged for a few “blogging awards” by some other bloggers I greatly respect.  I don’t normally indulge this amount of “me-talk,” mostly out of fear of boring my dear readers.  But, this time I decided, why not?  If you feel inspired to procrastinate, read on.

Resulting in quite possibly [...]