Food is my love language, especially at holiday time. It’s how I make an extra effort for those I love. It’s how I celebrate. It’s how I show support. It’s how I relax. It’s how I let the people in my life know I care. There’s a magic that happens when you gather with family and friends for a meal. There’s a deeper meaning in sharing what nourishes are bodies and our souls. Call me food-obsessed, but there really is nothing else quite like it.Most of my favorite holiday memories have…
SHORT & SWEET: CINNAMON SUGAR WALNUT QUICK BREAD
Fall is in full swing and if you need me, I’ll be filling my belly with any and everything that tastes like the season. Call me #BASIC, but if it has apple or cinnamon or pumpkin (or any combination of the three) I want, ahem NEED, it in my life. And though I want nothing more than to spend my days holed up in my kitchen cooking and baking things for the folks I love (more on that here), reality reminds me that I have a job and a husband and a social life and I need to go…
SO LONG, SWEET SUMMER
You know how Moms are always bestowing little bite-size nuggets of wisdom on you, even when you’re not asking for it? Drink water. Wash your face before bed. Wear clean underwear when you leave the house in case something happens to you. Use vinegar to clean glass- it’s the only thing that doesn’t streak. Always have $20 in your pocket. My Mom is the ring leader of this movement. Truly. And there’s a good reason for it. She’s always right. (In my family, we call that Mommy Magic.)As I navigate wear I am…
THIS ISH IS BANANAS
A few months ago, I made the decision to jump on the Whole30 bandwagon. For those of you who don’t know, Whole30 is not so much a diet as a program: one that eliminates the most common craving-inducing, blood sugar disrupting, gut-damaging, inflammatory food groups (aka “the fun stuff”) for a full 30 days. The idea is to take a step back and examine how the foods you’ve been eating actually affect your daily life and to negate the negative effects of the food choices you’ve been making. If you have low energy levels, chronic…