It’s soup season! Not to wax too poetic about soup, but honestly, I really love the one-pot meal-ness of it, the way it makes my house smell, and that warm full feeling you get in your belly after eating it. I love thinking about how I will garnish it and how it looks like I cooked it for hours when…
Oh wait – is that a bandwagon? Let me jump on it! With this recipe, I am going feet first onto both the Paleo and Pumpkin bandwagons. These bars satisfy those chocolate cravings and feel really decadent while still being healthy enough to have with coffee for breakfast (or with just a fork, the pan, and a dark corner – go ahead,…
Okay – it’s almost FALL!!! The season when kids head happily back to school (or I happily send them back to school, at least), the leaves start to change, the god-forsaken heat starts to break and people gather together for tailgates for FOOTBALL! As a Penn State grad and a current college town resident, I dig tailgates. I can honestly…
The world has seemed like a very big and scary place as of late. So much violence begetting worry and fear and I’m doing my best to keep it at bay (the worry and fear, I mean). It is hard enough to process all of these feelings on my own, let alone explain the unexplainable to my kids. I’ve decided…
I think I have said it before, but if I haven’t, one important thing to know about me is that I love routine. I not only love it, I NEED it, thrive on it. And that is why the first few weeks of summer are the absolute worst (for me). Once school ends it takes us all a few weeks…
My brother-in-law Todd Hooker has been following a Paleo lifestyle since before it was cool. I’ll be honest, I’m sure I teased him mercilessly for his bacon and almond loving caveman diet. Although I’m sure at the root of it was envy because it took me a few more years to get on board and learn to prioritize my health…
My computer and I have been having a standoff of sorts. Up ’til now, the computer has been winning. I walk by it, it blinks, I keep walking. I scan email on my phone and mark it “unread” until later. I have all but shunned technology as of late. I mean, I still troll Instagram and Facebook, I’m not a total hermit,…
When I tell people I have Celiac Disease I often get a response that goes something like this “I’d just die if I couldn’t eat bread!” (um, really?) I have a secret. I don’t actually miss eating bread. I know – Gasp! I miss baking bread. The kneading, the warm yeasty smell and the aroma that fills the house while…
Nom, Nom, Nom… I recently bought the book Nom Nom Paleo – by Michelle Tam & Henry Fong. I love her blog and have made several of her recipes that have been met with great success. I don’t follow a paleo diet per se, but because paleo recipes are also gluten free and use unprocessed foods, it is a great search…
Steak Dinner! Do you remember when the term “Steak Dinner” meant something? When I was younger, going out for Steak Dinner was such a special occasion it was mentioned by the dish’s name. Everything else was just dinner. It was a celebration to anticipate and plan for. Then, as often happens in our society, it went from being a “sometimes…
