02 Monday Dec 2013
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bread, dessert, healthy eating, vegan, vegetarian, zucchini bread
Happy Cyber Monday! Are you shopping? Where should I shop? Tell me. 
4 days away from you felt like a lifetime, bee tee dubs. Did you have a good Thanksgiving? We had 3! THREE THANKSGIVINGS, Y’ALL. They were all different and fun and delicious, so you should just mainly be jealous.
Also now I’m full.
20 Wednesday Nov 2013
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diet, food, health kick, healthy food, how to cook, raw, vegan, vegetarian, weight loss
I feel kind of fat just looking at all the Thanksgiving food being thrown at us on the internets. Do you?
We have the BEST week coming up. Tomorrow our bud Rory is coming to stay for a few days, then we have the whole weekend together, then Tuesday is Jay’s birthday, then IT’S THANKSGIVING and we have three of those so…..I feel kind of preemptively fat. 
If that’s a thing.
03 Thursday Oct 2013
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cooking, diet, eating, fish, fish and chips, food, health kick, healthy food, how to cook, how to eat, parchment paper, recipes, vegetarian, weight loss
This morning Jay woke up at 5:30 because he’s excited to go to the beach with his buddies, then started working at that same time because it was too early to cut the grass, which he wanted to do once it got light. Once it did get light he realized he didn’t have pants on, so he waited until I got up to get pants and start working outside. I asked why he didn’t just come get pants and he said “because you’re mean when you don’t sleep enough.”
Fair enough husband, fair enough. Gotta work on that.
Anyway, fish. Fish makes us not mean! I made this fish on inspiration from my girl Rachael Ray, who’s my bff in another life. I know – dorky. I don’t care.
The great thing about this dish is that it’s packed with flavor but is incredibly simple to make and is HEALTHY. Furthermore, the method could be altered to include…anything you want! Other fish, other veggies, extra seasonings…whatever! I like this really simple version because the fish gets all tender and lemony and buttery without using any butter so….let’s get right to it.
05 Friday Jul 2013
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farmers market, food, french cooking, french food, fresh eating, nicoise salad, recipes, salade nicoise, tuna salad, veggies
Are you in a coma from booze/food/sunshine yesterday?
That’s my favorite kind of coma, by the way. 
If so, I have exactly the easy-peasy get-back-on-track meal that you’ve been looking for!
We most recently made this meal for Father’s Day – we celebrated at lunch – and it was a huge hit. You prepare a few things, buy a few things, and EAT. That’s it! You customize with what you like/have on hand, and move on with your life.
31 Friday May 2013
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cooking, easy, eating, farmers market, food, food photography, fresh, horrible food photography, memorial day, recipes, salads, vegan, weekend cookout
It’s GORGEOUS here.
Naturally I’m not outside, but I have grand plans to be in a few hours.
Please don’t let my plans get wrecked, Earth.
Anyway, instead of forcing something new on you, I think we should revisit old favorites, and ESPECIALLY focus on fast/fresh/light foods. NO ONE wants to spend their whole weekend cooking (even me, just barely), and heavy food is just kind of meh when it’s lovely and sunshiny outside – right?
Right.
17 Friday May 2013
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cooking, eating, food, greek festival, greek food, how to cook, how to make meatballs, lamb, lebanese cooking, mediterranean, recipes
Guys it’s finally Friday.
I have my final yoga test this afternoon but then tomorrow my sister and I are going to a yard sale and a farmers market so….just gotta get through today?
Anyway.
Food.
I made this meal last weekend, and it was super easy-peasy, and REALLY delicious. Lots of the components can be made ahead or aren’t even really recipes so…let’s get to it!
15 Wednesday May 2013
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asian food, cooking, dinner, easy cooking, eating, food, how to cook, japanese food, meal planning, recipes, travel
Let’s have Japanese food tonight, ok?
Do you want to?
I want to.
It’s easy, I promise! Today starts 10 full weeks of summer school insanity so….get ready for ALL THE EASY RECIPES to come spewing out of me. Seriously – there’s no other way to get through this together.
So, today. Easy-peasy-Japanesy, even though I hate that expression and this is kind of Asian fusion food….ok? Make sense?
I knew you’d understand.
02 Thursday May 2013
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cooking, diet, food, garlic, how to cook, italian food, pasta, recipes, vegan, vegan pasta, vegetarian, weight loss
GUYS I MADE PASTA AND IT TASTED LIKE HUMMUS ON NOODLES.
And Jay has eaten leftovers gleefully almost every day for lunch this week.
This is SO good. I thought of it last week when we did our whole vegan shenanigan, and I really like the idea of giving you guys and my gut a vegan recipe every once in awhile.
Hummus is one of those things that’s always touted as naturally vegan without any modifications so I thought….why not make the flavors of hummus coat a pasta? And why not stir some mint into that?
I did it, and it was REALLY good. It was raining on this particular day, so the photo gods weren’t exactly on my side. We watched Argo while we ate it, too, and I’d HIGHLY recommend that flick to anyone who lives under a rock like we do and hasn’t seen it yet.
01 Wednesday May 2013
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chicken, cooking, diet, easy dinners, eating, food, how to cook, meal planning, recipes, vegan, vegetarian, weight loss
Last Wednesday I made this for my sister and her friend, so this Wednesday I’m showing it to you.
Makes sense, right?
It does.
One vegan dish and one healthy chicken dish and one yummy salad. All easy and fast, and together makes for a totally balanced meal.
23 Tuesday Apr 2013
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asia, asian cooking, chinese food, cooking, diet, food, quinoa, raw cooking, raw food, recipes, travel, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, weight loss
This has got to be low carb too, yes?
Yes. Let’s just go with it.
This is delicious, kids. Yesterday after I introduced the whole vegan-week thing (thanks for the lovely response to that!), I got to thinking about what I could make vegan. It was HARD. My go-to flavor components are cheese and butter so…YEAH. About that.
The more I pondered, the more I realized that a LOT of Asian-style dishes are already vegan, or very close to it. There isn’t a ton of random animal-derived junk to contend with replacing, and minus a few fish-based ingredients which can be eliminated easily, there are TONS of major flavors in Asian-style cooking that are totally plant based.
So, that’s what’s up first. Asian-style quinoa with raw veggies and crispy tofu.
I KNOW. It doesn’t sound contrived. It sounds just like….something I would already eat? That’s the point – not to fake out anyone, not to hide crap and call it meat when it’s really…not…but to eat real, fresh food that tastes GREAT and just happens to be vegan.