Savory Butternut Squash Soup with Thyme

December 9, 2012
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Today was a soup day.  I made two soups. One was the savory butternut squash soup which you see pictured (recipe below).  The other soup is something I learned from my mother – when you have leftover veggies, they always taste better after a spin through the blender.  So this morning, I steamed some kale […]

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December Sanity Challenge 2012: Sleep, Move, Dance & Stretch

December 2, 2012
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And, just like that, it is December 1.  This year went by at warp speed for me – I had a busy first three months of the year at my old job, then switched jobs, travelled quite a bit, and just generally felt like there was no pause button this year.  No pause. I tried […]

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Dance Trance DC Teacher Profile: Lauren

November 29, 2012
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Lauren has been a teacher with DanceTrance DC ever since the location launched back in July.  She is super-high energy as well as one of the reasons DanceTrance DC feels like such a community in addition to providing a great workout.  That’s her, above, on the right, with Maria, one of the other DanceTrance DC […]

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Mesquite Cacao Spread

November 29, 2012
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What started off as wanting to use up the bottom of an Artisana Coconut Butter jar has turned into a full fledged obsession. I have been using this Mesquite Cacao Spread on apple slices, rice cakes and eating it with a spoon.  The caramel and carob undertones of the mesquite makes the already stellar combination […]

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Wild Rice Mushroom Stuffing

November 28, 2012
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Stuffing is absolutely my favorite part of Thanksgiving. The first Thanksgiving I ever spent with my husband, we made pork chops, peas and stuffing – no mashed potatoes, no cranberry sauce, no gravy.  The stuffing that year was an egg/bread/sausage/apple concoction.  Even though much has changed since, and we have had a variety of foods […]

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Thanksgiving Redux

November 27, 2012
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Happy Tuesday after Thanksgiving. For those of you here in the U.S., I hope you had a nice holiday. And to everyone, I am so very grateful for your readership.  I celebrated with a vegan gluten-free plate of deliciousness – I tweeted a picture on Thanksgiving day, but wanted to give you the details: Sea’s […]

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What is Dance Trance Breakdown?

November 24, 2012
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Happy Saturday! I got back a little while ago from an intense DTDC (DanceTrance DC) class, taught by Lauren (that is her on the left, above).  Usually, Saturday classes include a half hour of Breakdown, followed by an hour of regular class.  Today, there was a two hour class, no Breakdown, which made it even […]

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Spicy Hot Chocolate

November 24, 2012
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I know, I know, it is only about 40-something F here in Washington today, but the wind – oh the wind. It feels like the low 30s.  It is perfect weather for hot chocolate. My fabulous friend Shirley, of Gluten-Free Easily, and the newly launched site All Gluten-Free Desserts … All The Time, reminded me […]

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Gluten-Free Vegan Recipes for Thanksgiving

November 20, 2012

Happy two days before Thanksgiving!! I am kind of a last minute Thanksgiving person – usually my husband and I plan the menu the weekend before, but sometimes we have been known to go shopping as late as the morning of Thanksgiving. I know, I know … but we can do this because (1) there […]

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Keys To sweetgreen’s Kitchen with Aida Mollenkamp

November 20, 2012
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Last Wednesday, I attended a really fun event at sweetgreen capitol hill – Aida Mollenkamp gave a cooking demo and talked about her new cookbook Keys to the Kitchen.  I remember watching Aida’s first show – Ask Aida – when  it started airing in 2008, so it was really cool to meet her and hear […]

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(Re)Introducing Dance Trance DC

November 17, 2012
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Happy Saturday! I am off shortly to DanceTrance DC (DTDC) – because of travel, it has been a couple of weeks since I have gotten to go to the Saturday class, and it is one of my favorite things to do on a Saturday morning.  In fact, since trying out DanceTrance in August, it has […]

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From California to Switzerland & Books

November 12, 2012
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Ok, not quite, but I bet you did not even know I was in Switzerland this last week – I hope you enjoyed the numerous California recaps of my time in San Francisco and San Diego a few weeks ago.  In the meantime, while my blog was still in California, I was actually 9 time […]

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Coronado Island, CA: Conference & Eats

November 9, 2012
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Just as I finished recapping my vacation to San Francisco, it occurred to me I should mention my trip, the following week, to San Diego (Coronado Island, to be precise) for a conference for my job. Yes, I had not been to California in six years, and I was there twice within three weeks.  I […]

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San Francisco Vacation Recap

November 8, 2012

Our vacation to San Francisco in August was such a highlight, and I am a little sad I am done recapping it.  San Francisco Day 1: Ferry Terminal, Hodo Soy & The Plant Café San Francisco Day 2: Golden Gate Park & YogaTree  San Francisco Day 3: Ferry Building Saturday Farmers’ Market & Where Epic […]

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San Francisco Day 4: J Pop Summit Festival & Other Adventures

November 6, 2012
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Day 4 of our trip to San Francisco (see days 1, 2 and 3) included a smattering of adventures.  Without planning to, we ended up in San Francisco the weekend of the J Pop Summit Festival, which is a pop culture-themed street fair that covers the grounds of Post Street from Webster to Laguna and […]

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