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 doing. […]
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 be […]
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 always […]
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 […]
This is one of the questions kids ask at an early age, but as adults we seem to somehow have forgotten the answer. Milk comes from a carton or plastic jug at the grocery store, right?
I recently discovered the Golden Glen Creamery milk for sale in Seattle (in glass bottles!), and the milk just tastes fantastic. […]
I need food. I think I’ve never been this hungry in my life.
The first few days of the yoga teacher training have been really fun, but I hadn’t foreseen the need for calories to sustain three hours of practice and four hours of lecture every day. By 2 pm today I had eaten my way through […]
Sometimes the best things are also the simplest. I have many Indian cookbooks, but there is one dish I always come back to. Dal was the first Indian dish I learnt how to make, and it continues to be my favorite to eat.
The red masoor dal used in this recipe is mild and almost sweet and […]
I am now the proud member of the Madison Market co-op. While reading Nina Planck’s Real Food (which is a whole other discussion), I started looking for a store that sells organic, local, and grass-fed meat, seafood and dairy (well, obviously the seafood won’t be grass-fed, but you get the point.) I like knowing where […]
