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I live in a small town with a big family and it is not at all uncommon for a 3 pm text to come through planning out a 5 pm potluck dinner. Since the square miles of the town barely outnumbers the number of family members, it is easy for everyone...

I get physically exhausted when food writers babble on about how food is love and cooking is this grand sentiment. But here is the fact: there are some things you create in the kitchen that hits people right in the heart. Bring a bubbling dish t...

I’m not a pasta person. I didn’t grow up eating it and I’ve always felt like the noodles are a little slimy and bland. Anytime I try a new pasta dish, it leaves me feeling overly full and underwhelmed. Read more

Run. Shower. Work. Repeat. This has been my mantra the past week. It always seems like once my training schedule increases, my work schedule goes into overdrive. For me, in the midwest summer heat, this...

Most kids grew up on frozen pizza and chicken nuggets. I grew up on frozen black bean burgers. My dad traveled a lot for work and, rightfully so, my mom got tired of creatively cooking for just the two of us every night. I knew the familiar conversation was about to ha...

Last week, I spent 7 days with 16 members of my husband’s family in one house. It was our first official family vacation, or FFF (force family fun) as I prefer to call it, since I have joined the family. While I can get passed the 16 people and 2 bathroom situation, and I ...

Ever go through droughts in your training? The motivation is gone, your race is far away, your goals seem too big? I’m still only a few weeks into marathon training and I’m thirsty for some drive. I have slept through my alarm 4 out of 5 times this week with no excitement ...

I’ve been a smoothie bowl girl long before the cult of artfully stripped pink bowls appeared all over social media. There are now even acai bowls on the menu at Costco. That is when you know it is mainstream. I would 10/10 choose eating my food with a spoon over a straw. Milks...

I was preparing dinner (a vegetarian Chinese dish) and I asked my husband to grab a can of black beans from the pantry. As he reached for the can opener he asked, “What do you do when people don’t like beans?” I was perplexed. Not so much from the question itself, because I...

In college I used to walk an extra 15 minutes across campus every Wednesday at 11:30 to have miss Juanita prepare me the best caesar salad wrap I’d ever had. Her signature was the ‘you can’t close the wrap before it splits’ kinda wrap. Aka the o...