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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...