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You choose an apartment based on optimal lighting for food photos…   Your first Netflix movie selection is Food Inc…     You miss weddings for food festivals…   Water and power outages affect your food prep and meal planning more than your acts of daily living (i.e. showering)… New food products generate more enthusiasm than "normal" things (like birthdays)…   "Battery card full" may as well mean "you will be eating a cold dish” (aka “don’t touch this food until I free up space")… You are ecstatic over the return of a $4 fermented… Read more >

After my parents left, Kyle and I spent the day catching up on errands around the apartment.  It was raining so we kept busy indoors with football…and cooking. I can’t believe this dish turned out to be such a hit.  It was truly the most random thing ever, but it ended up really wowing my husband.  It wasn’t vegan, but it could easily be made so.  I guess that makes it blog-worthy… Because I threw it together using what I had on hand, you probably already have the ingredients too.  Tomatoes, onions, rice…they’re basics. Comfort… Read more >

I used my alarm clock every morning this week, and unfortunately that theme continued into the weekend as well.  Rough life, huh. On Friday morning I woke up early, ignored the drizzly weather and went for a quick 15 minute jog around the neighborhood, followed by an abs & arms workout back at the apartment.  Half-way through my sweat session there was a knock on the door.  Hmmm… Hesitant to answer the door in a sports bra (or reveal that I was watching The Real Housewives of D.C. reunion while working out), I opened it… Read more >

While home: I forgot how much of a freak my dad is.  I remembered how fun vegging with my fam is.  I forgot how much it sucks to leave home.  I remembered to pack lots of good healthy eats for the road trip back to LA. I forgot to bring utensils to eat said food. I remembered to ask the gas station attendant to help me out. I forgot gas stations expect people to be eating processed food crap (a spork!?) I forgot how boring the I-5 is.  Then, I remembered how boring the I-5… Read more >

I made this a few days ago, but never got around to posting it…because I had a few issues along the way…so in case you thought all my recipes ended in success, here’s a bit of a reality check.  I got this acorn squash at the farmer’s market.  Issue #1 occurred with my lack of knife skills (slash intimidation with big shiny metal).  If you feel comfortable making a crushing blow down on a squash, more power to you, but I’m not quite there yet in my culinary career.  As a result, my cut ended… Read more >