Easy Miso Soup
If I’m being honest, I really hate Miso Soup. It tastes and smells very much like Top Ramen to me – as a kid, I ate so many of the super cheap, easy af, msg bombs that the noodles eventually became disgusting to me. BUT …
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Healthier Cookie Dough
Just in time for the winter holiday season, the CDC has made another announcement to tell us that raw cookie dough isn’t safe for human consumption – even when it’s not made with eggs. Fun-haters. If you’re living your best plant-life, you might be wondering: …
Health Care and Midterm Election Day
Interestingly, health care is the most highly searched topic in Iowa this week – the week leading up to the Midterm Elections. While our President and Fox News have done a bang up job of making immigrant caravans sound like a clear and present danger …
Easy Vegan Pumpkin Pie
This Vegan Pumpkin Pie is so freakin healthy that I sometimes send it as the main dish in my kids’ lunch bags – which means that they show up in the lunch room with DESSERT FOR LUNCH. Their friends probably think we’re the weirdest, coolest …
A Healthy Cookie Dough Recipe
I made chocolate chip (chunk) cookie dough. That tastes like chocolate chip cookie dough. IT TASTES LIKE REAL, SUGARY, DELICIOUS COOKIE DOUGH. But I made it without sugar. Without eggs. Without salt. Without anything unhealthy. In fact… It’s NUTRITIOUS AF. Yeah, dude. These cookie dough …
Pro-Life or Anti-Abortion
Not too long ago, Lulu and I were discussing the current state of women’s health care (yeah, dude, some deep stuff goes down at our kitchen table) and she asked me to explain what is it to be “pro-life”. “If you aren’t ‘pro-life,’” she asked …
OshKosh Pineapple Salsa
While in Oshkosh, visiting Ry’s sister, Ang (+ tribe), I discovered that I actually like raw onion. At least, I like it raw in this particular salsa. Ang made it based on a recipe she found in the NYT recipe section. I got home and …
Best Ever Vegan Buckwheat Pancakes
Last night, my 4 year old nephew, H, had his first slumber party (away from his parents) – and we had the honor of hosting! We played in the garden and with our bearded dragon. We went creature hunting and found banana slugs and spiders …
Letters to Younger Dumber Me: On Sleep
With the recent influx of babies our tribe has experienced, I find myself thinking about what advice I’d give younger, dumber, new-parent me on a variety of topics. I’m not sure how many topics I’ll actually cover, but I figured I start here. I am …
