I’m sitting at my computer with the fan on high, the sun threatening to burn me through the open window and I’m getting ready to tell you about a soup that encompasses all that I love about Summer. I’m sure you are saying to yourself right now – soup? In the middle of summer! Crazy […]
It is the end of April and I wish it were summer. Instead it feels more like winter around these parts. Gray and misty mornings linger into the evening and chilly nights fill our home making me crave a hot bowl of soup. The sun teased us with a few days of perfectly gorgeous 75-degree […]
Babies. Everyone is having babies. Molly is. Taza is. Even some of my closest friends are taking the plunge. I, however, am not. I’m ok with that and I hope you are too. Instead I decided to go back to school to become a Holistic Health Coach. Going back to school comes with a lot […]
A year ago Steve and I left everything we loved in Las Vegas to try life somewhere new, somewhere we had dreamed about living for years – San Diego. This may not seem like a big deal considering it’s only a 4.5 hour drive from home but for us it was huge. We like to […]
Last week was a bad week. The moon and stars must have been out of alignment because I was a wreck. I cried. At work. And at 30 years old I threw a tantrum that would rival any toddler in a tiara. It was that kind of week. By Friday I was more than ready to let it all melt into a bottle of wine and lift my spirits with my favorite comfort food – soup.
We made it! So without any hesitation here is what I learned from the Engine 2 challenge.
* 28 days go by really fast.
* Eating plants = lots energy.
* 28 days of plant strong meals did more for me than 60 days of intense work-outs could do. I lost almost 5lbs, several inches and a pant size.
* Clarity. It’s a feeling you can’t describe until you’ve experienced it.
* Ethnic food is your best friend. Mexican, Italian, Thai and Indian food is very adaptable to a plant strong diet. If you have a can of beans, whole grain tortillas, salsa, avocado and cilantro you can make 50 different meals.
Every evening when Steve and I sit down to dinner we ask each other that question. Tonight his answer was “this stir-fry”. I agreed. We love stir-fry which is somewhat odd because as I child I hated stir-fry so much that my parents would do the unthinkable and cook me something different when […]
I’m about to hand over a magnificent, delicate but extremely rich pasta dish recipe. You are going to love every bite.
and I need this pasta to snap me out it. I’m not sure if it’s a food rut or a writing rut but it’s a rut nonetheless. I haven’t been excited about food which is baffling considering I have three new All-Clad pans that need breaking in, a new Jamie cookbook, a gorgeous baking book […]
I know my timing isn’t ideal on this recipe considering that summer is over – unless you live in San Diego (thank you 75 degree weather in November) but I’m sharing it anyway because it’s that good. I would have never thought to make soup out of zucchini had I not been handed a mini […]
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