Yes. I said it. I love hate salads. Who doesn’t? (If you were going to say “me,” don’t answer. ) I LOVE salads. Love love love. Especially good ones. Interesting ones. Salads that include ingredients that I would never consider pairing together. Like kumquats and arugula. Or roasted cauliflower with sesame seeds. Or teriyaki tofu… Continue reading Salads: I love them, I hate them
You know that amazing feeling you have when you do something that you love? That’s exactly how I feel about running Nutrition workshops with my good friend and colleague Aminah. We have been running Nutrition workshops officially and unofficially for a few years now. Officially working with an interfaith community of Jewish and Muslim women… Continue reading Why I Love Our Nutrition Events
As a mom, I complain about two things continuously. Guilt and balance. I feel guilty cutting hours at work to spend time with the kids and even more guilty when I work too much. Yikes. Is there a perfect balance? I struggle with feeling at peace about my decisions and feeling totally guilty all the… Continue reading Guilt, Balance and Food
I like to create new dishes ALL the time. Creating and preparing new dishes is fun for me. I make such a habit of making food up as I go, that I never almost never follow recipes and I never almost never write things down. (Makes it challenging for recipe sharing, no?) Tonight is one of my… Continue reading Eggplant chips with Tahini sauce
There’s space at the top of our breath… and space at the bottom of our breath. It’s the space when we are neither inhaling nor exhaling. When we are calm. After we inhale… space. After we exhale… space. (You can try it right now.) And, how that space, while seemingly insignificant, matters. I have… Continue reading Space and time. (It’s been a while)
I made this quinoa dish at a recent family holiday gathering and it got a lot of attention. Partially because it was really good. Partially because of its eye-catching colors. Partially, I would like to think, because it was healthy. And partially because many of my family members still didn’t realize that I could cook.… Continue reading Quinoa with Kale, Zucchini and Mango
Don’t you love how each New Years comes with great pressure to make massive changes. And each year these enormous, dramatic, “permanent” positive changes last about ….. three weeks. At best. I won’t get fancy here. I won’t announce that I will exercise daily (which I essentially do now). Or that I will stop… Continue reading Making it Easy
While making snacks for my hungry boys after school today, I realized that a “good mom of the year teaching moment” had presented itself. How often does that happen? I was ready to pounce. Today’s topic was math. My big boy recognized 1’s and 10’s and 100’s places on his worksheet. But he was terribly… Continue reading Nutri-Math
This weekend I ran home after my son’s soccer practice to make post-soccer lunch for him and some of the neighborhood kids. I love this role. This is where I feel can totally shine as a Mom. I hate to toot my own horn, but really I’m so good at this kind of thing it’s… Continue reading If You Make It, They Will Eat
As I enjoy the holiday, surrounded by friends and family, I happily engage in catch up conversations of life, work, kids, etc. And while food is being presented in beautiful dishes on a spread that would bring tears to the eyes of third world counties, the banter begins about being “good” or being “bad” during… Continue reading The Holidays and Eating
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