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I want to try to take better care of myself in 2017, but I never made any concrete (resolution style) plan.  Still, I feel like I’m doing a good job so far.  To be clear, I was starting from a pretty good place. Kyle is SUPER supportive of letting me work out every single morning and I am not one of those people who can go without showering, so at the very least, by 7:30 am, I have gotten a good sweat on and then washed myself clean to start the day fresh.  But that’s physical stuff.  And… Read more >

This Sprouted Kitchen recipe for spicy butternut squash and kale chopped salad was a fun twist on some of my favorite ingredients.  Kyle loved it.  P thought it was all fine, but he doesn’t like butternut squash much so, you know.  V, who usually devours butternut squash as fast as I can get it on her plate, was NOT into the seasonings on it at all and required mega chip bribery to get through the meal.  She happily ate all the kale she could get her hands on though, which is a change, so that was a… Read more >

I’ve cooked so many things from Danielle Walker’s first cookbook, Against All Grain, and they’ve all been so stellar.  If you have her other cookbooks, tell me which recipes are your favorites?  Now that P tolerates everything but dairy and peanuts, I find myself cooking from allergy cookbooks far less often.  That said, Danielle is SCD so many of her recipes are fodmaps friendly so I may be more likely to invest.  Maybe I should rent it from the library first…but if you have an opinion one way or the other please share! Here is her “world… Read more >

Before: After: Then fluffed with a fork. Then stuffed. I set aside some squash for the kids before stuffing the others so Kyle and I could just eat them out of  the skin like a bowl.  I basically layered them lasagna style, alternating sauce, meat and cheese until they were full. Kyle got real cheese, but obviously I used vegan cheese for mine (and Pattycakes’). These were really really good. I like the taste of spaghetti squash a lot, but I wasn’t sure if the rest of my crew would be as into it.  Kyle loved it, but the… Read more >