This is wild rice, in the style of pudding. This is a very good thing. This is how we eat dessert for lunch and write it off as health food. This is how we spend a much needed hour hovering over the stove – spoon in hand – stirring and singing (spoons make great improv microphones!!). This is…
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I turned 25 yesterday… It was a beautiful day of love and celebration, but 25 totally feels major in the adult department. I mean, I’m mid-twenties! Is it too cliche to say time is flying by? It really seems that way. Another year older just means break out the extra sparkly sprinkles, right? The answer is…
Continue ReadingMango, Chili, Avocado Smoothie
I can be more than a little persuasive if a proper reason calls upon my fickle little heart.
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There’s only one way to properly look at a gorgeous, decadent, expensive pound of dark chocolate quickly melting into nothing but a big mess all over your counter – as a sign! Life sends us signs all the time, and it’s important to listen up! Signs can mean all kinds of crazy things. Maybe it’s…
Continue ReadingWhole-Wheat Raspberry & Peach Ginger Muffins
I lasted all of 3 days before surrendering to sugar and cranking on the recently sworn off oven. 3 wimpy days! I’m such a flag waver to my battles, but with a cool Brooklyn breeze graciously dancing through my tiny window, and an impeccably persistent itch to bake that would have been utterly impossible to ignore,…
Continue ReadingSparkling Basil & Citrus Water
When you have one window in your entire apartment (yes, I’m serious), no air conditioning, and a ceiling fan so rickety you only dare to pump it on low, you quickly learn alternative methods of cooling down from the steamy summer heat. As much as I love glazed doughnuts, walking around resembling one is no good…
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