glorious greens

It was a simple Sunday. A day of sleeping in, coffee on the couch, a trip to chinos, an afternoon nap and then dinner made with all of my favorite things. While I was at Chinos farm stand I honed in on a new green I had never seen before. The farmer’s wife told me […]

awaken to sweet potato hash.

sweet potato hash

I recently attended a three-day Awakening Seminar aimed at finding enlightenment and peace and all the fabulous transcending buzzwords that come along with said enlightenment. But it didn’t exactly start that way.  Instead, I spent the morning of the first day pacing outside of a house all alone and freaking out that I was about […]

the everyday dessert.

Sugar is the devil. When it gets in my system (which is often) it wraps it’s long fingers around me in a death grip and convinces me that I really need salty chips and a dark syrupy coke, as opposed to something like a healthy green smoothie. Sometimes I cave under the very convincing pressure […]

blackouts and beets

Thursday night didn’t go quite like I had planned. I was going to plant myself in front of the computer and share with you a recipe about beets and poblano chilies and how yummy they are grilled with red onions and worchesire sauce. Instead, a teensy little power outage decided to stand in my way […]

Oh couscous, how I love thee…

Simple, hearty and versatile, just like a favorite pair of jeans. The kind of jeans that you can throw on with a pair of heels for a night out or run errands in with flip-flops on. That is kind of how couscous is, except that you can eat it-which makes it even better than a […]

Friday Night Tacos: We all deserve it… at least twice

Sometimes I think – make that sometimes I know – I take on too much but I just can’t help myself. Between my full time job, freelance work, volunteer work and food blog (not to mention my husband and our girls) – I hardly have time to sleep.  But even though it can be a […]