small eats
finding what works for you, one small step at a time
I can't believe Thanksgiving is almost a week away! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I go home to see my family (which I only get to do a few times a year) and my Dad and I get to cook …
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I overthink things. My mind (maybe like a yours) has a tendency to be on hyperdrive all the time, thinking, thinking, thinking and never stopping. Sometimes it helps, but a lot of the times it just …
Earlier this month, I was at the Patchwork Edible festival in Costa Mesa. Most of the time I was helping my good friends at Ticings with their booth, but towards the end of the day I walked around to …
Even with LA's mini heatwave this weekend, Fall is still coming. And as I swap out my wardrobe, I also swap out my breakfasts. All summer, I've been eating a parfait of sorts: layers of yogurt and …
Tomorrow will be October. October! It just feels like yesterday that summer was starting! Even with that said, I've started to feel the seasons change (the little that they do in Los Angeles). The air …
People put quiche on such a pedestal; putting fancy ingredients (I can't afford fancy mushrooms, sorry) or meats I don't regularly buy (I'm looking at you, ham). It's something you only have for …
Sometimes I'm so focused on making the most veggie-packed dinners that sometimes I forget about the in-between. The snacks, the breakfasts, the appetizers. I lovingly blame it on N. The meal N and I …
Two weeks ago, the unimaginable happened. I killed my food processor. It wasn't the best, it was four years old and what I could afford at the time (which was nothing to write home about). Since then, …
This week, I got sick. Sick at the worst time (because illness never really is convenient, is it?). I had just come back from a girls' trip with my mom, had to go back to work, and lots of deadlines …
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I won't classify myself as a breakfast person. I eat it; it's usually pretty straight forward: oatmeal with fruit, cereal with fruit and yogurt, almond butter toast… Nothing crazy, right? A few …
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The summer heat is finally here. Living in Los Angeles, the summer heat doesn't get that bad, but when it does, it's just yuck. N and I went to a potluck barbecue yesterday, and I did not want to …
Life has a way of making things interesting. When I started working on today's post, I had a completely different recipe in mind. I made it, tasted it, liked it, but not enough to share with all of …
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