wanted to share a fun little recipe i cooked for lunch today! i used this bon appétit recipe for tomato and blue cheese salad with fried shallots recipe (here's the link to that), but instead of using fried shallots, i substituted frizzled leeks and added a couple other ingredients into the mix. yesterday i stocked … Continue reading tomato and blue cheese salad with frizzled leeks
for the first time in a while, i've created a basic menu plan for the next week that i wanted to share in case any of it proves to be of interest to others, and also for: my own documentation purposes. i have been craving salads, so today i stocked up on produce. for lunches, … Continue reading food plans: 8/23 – 8/29
omg life has been so busy lately. char and i moved and are selling our old place and we have boxes everywhere in our new place! YIKES. but we are now completely out of the old one and it's been staged LOL. it looks so funny all empty and staged. anyway, just finished gardening the … Continue reading nasty little meals
good morning! this morning i woke up and did a "waking up" meditation, if you will, via headspace (my fav meditation app). and i've got to say... it was a nice way to awaken! the meditation itself was a visualization when you recall a time that you were heated by the sun and in an … Continue reading tofu files
apparently the universe got itself in order because i'm feeling inspired to cook a little more, and work stuff has chilled out a bit?! my brain is feeling a little more organized and i'm writing a little more and exercising a little more, and feeling generally, dare i say... good?! all of this is to … Continue reading inspo
hello hello! it's been oh so long. i took a sabbatical! jk, work just got reallllly busy and it's funny how that works - as soon as that happened, i felt that i didn't have enough time to cook from scratch, exercise, sleep enough, read as much (as i want to), and all that kind … Continue reading going rogue
i've finally done a lot of good cooking. no new recipes, but feeling good about it. i made amy chaplin's parsley brown rice salad. it's: parsley, brown and sweet rice, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, shallots, and toasted sesame seeds. dressed with ume plum and brown rice vinegars, flax oil, and soy sauce. parsley brown rice salad … Continue reading parsley brown rice salad / cherry extract
i made an excellent rice bowl for breakfast yesterday, and may do so again today. i already had cooked rice in the fridge, so i reheated that with a little soy sauce. i then sautéed some kale and fried an egg. i added toasted sesame seeds and kimchi to the bowl, and then topped everything … Continue reading end of september
ate a burrito last night, and watched kansas city vs. ravens. mahomes is so. damn. good. i have leftover rice and beans to eat for lunch today. i'll definitely sauté a green and serve on top of them heated, with a sauce - tbd. rice, beans, crispy kale, roasted seaweed, toasted sesame seeds, kimchi, kewpie … Continue reading here i am again
happy new week! a lot of people hate mondays (and if i could choose, i would have the weekend last forever), but i like to view mondays as an opportunity for anything can happen. it's a fresh start! a time to set priorities, and then follow through on your goals. i will admit that i … Continue reading soaking beans and rice
cooking with leeks 