Farmers’ Market Chocolate Strawberry Smoothie

June 11, 2012
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Happy Sunday. For me, Sunday morning is all about the farmers’ market – no matter how insane our schedules, my husband and I rarely skip going to the market on Sunday mornings We sometimes skip the market on cold winter days (when we are all stocked up in all kinds of root veggies), but when […]

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Righteously Raw Chocolates

June 7, 2012
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Happy Wednesday! I had a whole post in my head about going to BodyPump for the first time a couple of weeks ago with a friend and support when one makes lifestyle changes, but it is late after a very long day, so I will save that for another day.  In the meantime, let us […]

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A Truly Lovely Garden Party Potluck

June 5, 2012
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On Sunday night I attended one of the loveliest dinner parties I had been to in a long time, hosted by Gena.  To celebrate Anne’s return to the Washington area, Gena hosted a few DC healthy foodies – Victoria, Andrea,  Anne, Dasha and I – for a potluck.  As you can tell from the pictures, […]

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Candy Striped Beet Quinoa Salad with Scallion Cashew Cheese

June 4, 2012
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As I mentioned, I am slowly but surely warming up to beets – as long as they are raw or in juice.  Cooked beets still generally do not appeal to me.  So yesterday, in a fit of culinary ambition, I picked up a bunch of beets (labeled, simply, as “beets”) at the U Street market, […]

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Zingy Spring Hummus

June 2, 2012
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I love hummus – in fact, I consider hummus/bean dip their own food group – but it is rare even for me to post as many hummus recipes as I have lately.  First there was the Spicy Lemon Hemp Hummus, then the Lemony Black-Eyed Pea version, then, just last week, Cilantro Scallion Black-Eyed Pea Dip.  […]

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Rudi’s Gluten-Free Tortillas

June 1, 2012
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I would say Rudi’s Gluten-Free Tortillas are my favorite thing since sliced (gluten-free) bread, except I kind of prefer them to my bread options.  Eating gluten-free and vegan means that the vast majority of gluten-free products are off limits for me because they contain eggs.  While many manufacturers go the gluten-free dairy-free route, they still […]

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Thoughts On Life Gluten-Free

May 31, 2012
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Lately I have been thinking a lot about life gluten-free – some of it is the controversy surrounding Domino’s (not-really) gluten-free pizza and the many thoughtful blog posts surrounding it, including Alta’s, Shirley’s, Debi’s and Linda’s (be sure to also check out Jules (of Jules Gluten Free) and the interview on this topic this month). […]

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New York Minute, Part 1 & A DC Discovery

May 30, 2012
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I was in New York earlier this month for a wedding. It was truly one of those New York minute type trips, but I did fit in some yummy eats and walking around my old haunts in Union Square, the East Village and the Lower East Side. I lived in many neighborhoods in New York […]

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Blue Mountain Cashew Creamery

May 27, 2012
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Last weekend, after yoga on the mall, my friend and I walked back to the Dupont/Logan Circle area, and we both had the worst craving for something frozen – I mean, witness how we had spent a couple of hours: You cannot see the 90 degree temperature, but you can see how blue that sky […]

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Rethinking Clothes Makes You Hungry and Impromptu Dinner at Lebanese Taverna

May 27, 2012
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This is the first Memorial Day Weekend since 2008 that I have not worked or, as I was in 2010, stuck in traffic, so I decided to celebrate it by doing something I have said I would do pretty much every federal holiday weekend (you know, the ones that also mean that some great sales […]

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Cilantro Scallion Black-Eyed Pea Dip

May 26, 2012
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Thank you for the lovely comments on my post announcing my return from my accidental blog break – it was so nice to see familiar names as well as new ones.  In return for your kind comments, I am making good of my promise to share a recipe for a cilantro hummus.  If you know […]

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Where to Begin?

May 25, 2012
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The one thing I dislike about taking blog breaks (and mine are generally unanticipated and few and far between) is that it takes me a few posts to reconnect with my blog-flow, so to speak.  Despite now five years of blogging, if I take a blog break, I become the blogging equivalent of tongue-tied. And […]

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Reinterpreted Pudding Sauce

April 29, 2012
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One of my absolute favorite children’s series is Anne of Green Gables -  I loved her imagination, her friendship with Diana, her college years in Anne of the Island, and of course, always wanted her to end up with Gilbert.  While the books are at my parents’, somehow, the Anne of Green Gables Cookbook is […]

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5 Years!

April 12, 2012

I do not always remember the blog’s anniversary on time (see, 2010), especially as my initial post no longer exists, but I do remember how I wrote my first post on April 11, so I wanted to be sure to mention this milestone today. 5 Years!   Thank you so much for reading – I keep […]

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Mini Art Journaling

April 12, 2012
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Remember these small notebooks which my friend Christina gave me? I finally put them to good use, as I decided to a couple of months ago.  I decided to turn them into mini art journals, as my friend Lisa had suggested.  I had been meaning to turn these journals into a tiny project, but only […]

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