I just got British TV chef Anjum Anand’s book Anjum’s New Indian, which is a great read for both inspiration and recipes. I love browsing beautiful cookbooks, bookmarking dishes I want to make in the future. (I may never get around to it, but that doesn’t seem to take away from the enjoyment.) Anjum has an interesting recipe for [...]

I love coming up with new and healthy one-pot dishes by throwing together a combination of a whole grain + vegetables + protein. Add a few flavor components like herbs, spices, garlic, ginger, oils or coconut, and dinner is ready! This week I had some red quinoa I needed to use, as well as a [...]

We all know we should eat our veggies, but what if eating them also adds pesticides and toxins to your diet? I always try to buy organic produce, but it can get expensive. Where is it okay to choose conventional instead of organic? I recently received a review copy of the book Clean, Green, and [...]

I’ve been wanting to cook something with millet for a while, an ancient grain rich in B-vitamins and iron. These days I try to cook dishes that my 8-month old can eat too, and millet is great baby food. It is also gluten-free, so if you can’t eat wheat, millet is a great option. I [...]

I’ve been on an oatmeal kick this winter, usually mixing in flax seeds and canned pumpkin. It’s been hard to find canned pumpkin this side of Christmas, so I needed to find something new to add to my oatmeal. Recently I feel like I’ve been reading about chia seeds and goji berries everywhere, so I [...]

Today is Santa Lucia-day, and for the first time I attempted to make lussekatter, the traditional sweet saffron buns. I’m not a big fan of saffron, so I substituted cardamom. Before chowing down lussekatter we did about an hour long home practice, with the baby watching from a blanket wondering what on earth we were [...]

This winter a new vegan restaurant called Thrive opened in the Ravenna neighborhood in Seattle. I love their menu of healthy dishes made with fresh, organic ingredients. And everything is…raw. Which in the raw foods movement means that no food has ever been heated above 118 F (48 C). Can it still be good? Actually, it can [...]

First of all, happy new year! I spent December in Norway and India, but I’m now back in Seattle, happily resuming everyday activities (like blogging!). This time of year has a way of making everyone think of what they need to improve about themselves. Exercising more, dieting, being more efficient at work, saving money, etc. I [...]

This past week was really busy, and I survived mostly on microwaved frozen vegetables and brown rice tortillas. But you can only eat so much frozen broccoli in your life, and over the weekend I started looking at some cookbooks and food blogs for inspiration. I came across a great blog called Aayi’s Recipes, which [...]

I know it’s not really the season for warm salads, but since the farmer’s market is full of fresh chard and beets I couldn’t resist. I never liked beets growing up (this was the pickled variety), but once I tried using it as a fresh vegetable I discovered that it’s really good in salads and luckily tastes nothing like [...]