Eating seasonally is amazing – you truly get the best quality produce when you make sure it’s in season. But doing so has its drawbacks. Like endless green beans. Every year, around August, I get incredibly sick of summer vegetables. I get to the point where I feel like I’m going...

Neko still won’t eat avocados. And it still blows my mind. Well, I kind of take it back. She did eat a bite of avocado once. When I was pregnant, we went to a TexMex restaurant and I was so hungry I ordered an avocado stuffed with cheese and deep fried. It felt like a brick in my...

So many of my favorite dishes can hardly be called recipes. Toss veggies with salt and olive oil and roast. Steam veggies and toss with salt and olive oil. Chop up raw veggies and toss with salt, olive oil and vinegar. I was feeling like it’s overstating things to call these dishes...

I love it when I can put a meal together without going to the store. Grocery shopping on my own with two small kids is exhausting, so I try to schedule all my shopping for days when I’ll have my husband or mother around to help me out when Neko pitches a fit or Conrad pees through his...

I fail at making healthy family breakfasts. Most mornings, Neko has Nutella on white bread and a glass of chocolate milk for breakfast. Perhaps it’s a step up from Pop-Tarts, but not a big step. If I’m feeling bad about her sugary breakfast, I’ll give her a healthy cereal...