When I’m on the road for work, I don’t eat super healthy. See also: the Facebook photo I just posted featuring my two-hot-dog lunch this afternoon. So when I’m home, I actually crave low-fat protein and veggies. But that doesn’t…
Read moreFor my entire life, my nana made kiffles for Christmas. As a child, I assumed everyone had kiffles for Christmas, just like everyone has turkey for Thanksgiving. I was wrong of course. Kiffles are oddly hyper-local, brought by Hungarian immigrants…
Read moreOne of my biggest healthy diet challenges is: my husband. My husband really likes food. He likes it a lot. And it’s not healthy food that he likes. If prompted, he will admit that his favorite cuisine is bar food….
Read moreAnd so it came to pass that one post-holiday evening, I was tired of eating leftover turkey but didn’t have the will (or the money) to go out and buy anything else for dinner. So I did what you’re supposed…
Read moreI really hate the word hack. Yet here I am using it because I can’t think of a more appropriate term for what I’m about to suggest you do to your canned or jarred pizza sauce. And because ‘why you…
Read moreIt’s going to snow this weekend on the east coast, which can only mean one thing: every single person from Richmond to Boston went to the grocery store today to stock up on milk, bread, and eggs. To be perfectly…
Read moreI’ve been wanting a good bowl of ramen for a while now. Like since my last good bowl of ramen, which was way back in late August as I was traveling through DC. And by ‘traveling through’ I mean ‘I…
Read moreAfter spending two days cooking an elaborate holiday meal, the very last thing I want to do is get up the next morning and make breakfast. So yesterday–the day after Thanksgiving–we had pie for breakfast. Because we are grown ups and…
Read moreI read this inspirational quote somewhere recently. It goes something like this: You can’t control everything that happens, but you can control how you react to whatever happens. Or, you know, something better-phrased. But you get the idea. Things happen. You have…
Read moreI tried really hard to come up with a catchy name for this dish. But catchy names need to be short. And the reason I invented this meal is because I wanted shepherd’s pie but I didn’t have any of the…
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