In New Orleans, I find that we pivot about Mardi Gras as the rest of the country pivots about New Years. The week after, we reset. I’ve gone back to yoga, to eating salads more days a week than not. I recommitted to self care. My friend Lucy and I completed the National Women’s Half […]
A meditation from the newspaper early on a Sunday morning: from an article on Lafitte, Louisiana, a Gulf South town of about 4,000 people with homes built on stilts just outside the flood protection zone twenty miles south of where I type into this screen. A supplication from a man who has chosen to live […]
Calling All Food Bloggers to NOLA! Shiftcon Eco-Wellness Conference is coming to New Orleans December 1-3, will I see you there? This conference is for all food bloggers, dieticians and companies who care about health, food, and the environment. Shiftcon couldn’t have chosen a more perfect city to set the conversation on important issues like […]
Tonight felt like an early Thanksgiving. Anchovy butter, I’m convinced, is the Golden Ticket for vegetables. Just half a stick of butter, and couple salty fish, and suddenly, two pounds of green fibrous plants become dinner. Really. I ate this for dinner and I felt just as satisfied as though I had eaten a cheeseburger. […]
I feel a little bad for kale because last year, it was Miss Thing, and now, it’s well after senior prom and graduation, and Miss Thing is still working in her hometown at the minimart. An illustration of this: I just rescued 7 gallon bags full of kale from our community garden where a whole […]
I am roasting everything in sight. This dish is surprisingly sweet, and without sugar, for those needing to detox post-Halloween. There is nothing more comforting than sizzling gourds in autumn. One of the more creepy sentences I’ve ever written. Roasted Butternut Squash with Lentils Adapted from Food and Wine and Penzeys Spices 1 1/2 […]
We all need a little poetry in our lives, but I happen to be a person who needs a regular, and more sizable dose than the average human. It is best to neither question nor manhandle one’s given metabolism; rather, feed it. In a book of poetry on the topic of food, I found a whole […]
Making my way slowly through the pile of greens that arrive every week, and hacking through the forest of greens leafing the backyard gardens. Chard was something I previously believed to be a verb. A very embarrassing verb. Turns out I was wrong. And astoundingly, it comes in rainbow colors! Chard is like the funfetti […]
Happy Anniversary to me and KP, seven years! We went on a dinner cruise on the Mississippi River, which is a tad full, shall we say? We had hoped to sit on the bench pictured below to look at the boat before we boarded. Gorgeous evening, our Independence Day this year in the Midwest. Back […]
Okay, how easy is this? Who doesn’t have time to be healthy now? Here is dinner for under 5 bucks and less than 20 minutes. And, if you live in Minnesota right now, you might have this growing in your yard or showing up in your CSA box this week. There is something so beautiful […]