I love giving gifts. I love finding out what a person likes over time, filing it away in brain, and flipping through those things and getting or making the perfect thing for someone. This holiday …
Greens and Beans Tortilla Casserole
In the busyness of this season, I've been turning to my trusty baking dishes to keep things going. In making one meal with an 8x8" or 13x9" pan, I've just made a handful of lunch and dinners for N and …
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Roasted Beet Carrot Soup
A lot has been happening in the last few weeks. Fall officially began, a heatwave rolled up in Southern California and won't let go, and I started a nutrition program to become a Nutritional Therapy …
Lentil Vegetarian Meatballs
It’s become a big game for me. How can I take this dish and make it meatless? How can I make it taste great, be filling, and have no meat in it? That meat eaters will happily gobble up and never even …
Vegetarian Curry with Tempeh
Necessity: The mother of invention, or, of tonight's dinner. Lots of the meals I make are driven by what do I have on hand at the moment. Maybe the dinner I imagined and planned and shopped for is …
The Pantry Essentials Quinoa Salad
I'm so happy to announce that I'm a guest editor for The Girl Who Knows, the place to build a business and life with soul. The Girl Who Knows is a great site for digging deeper into soulful living all …
Roasted Carrot and Lentil Soup
Sometimes, I can speak better through food. I've been doing it for years, but only recently have I really realized that it's another language I'm pretty fluent in. All of the words and emotions I want …
Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Chai Cookies
I love discovering new flavors to put in something familiar. I bake pretty regularly for a group of friends, and when discovering one of them liked chai tea, my brain started to think on where a good …
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Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Kale and Black Bean Cauliflower Rice
No matter how long you've been cooking or how extensive your cooking repertoire is, there are always those dishes that if all else failed, you could just whip together. If your brain's kinda fried or …
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Roasted Carrot Soup with Za’atar
Discoveries are a wonderful thing, and when you open your eyes to one new thing, you're just amazed at what else you see out there. …
Whole Wheat Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
I'm a sucker for Valentine's Day. Yes, I know it's just some holiday someone made up and now it's more about buying candy and flowers and making reservations at a fancy restaurant. For me it's more …
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Edamame Pea Avocado Dip
This post is in collaboration with The Wellbeing Network. The Wellbeing Network is dedicated to making health and wellness accessible for everyone. Fall is right around the corner. The season will …
