My friend Petra and I have had several discussions about how, when we come up with new recipes, we’d rather not try and make our fab new healthy foods sound like a spin-off of conventional foods. Some things, like Veganaise, make sense—it’s mayonnaise turned vegan. But, when I first made Chickpea Surprise (named by Petra), …
My friend Petra thrives on challenges. I do too, but not quite to the extent that she does. This is a good thing because when we’re in the mood to be challenged together, we do joint challenges. You may remember Petra’s Local August challenge last year, when she ate only local food for a whole …
Petra’s sister introduced her 2 year-old son to green smoothies recently, and as a result, we have another kid-green-smoothie success story! How cool—another toddler ingesting more greens in the morning than many grown adults have throughout an entire day! Occasionally, I wonder what the point is of my job—it begins to feel a little fruitless …
I’m lookin’ for something to look forward to. Why? Who knows? I’m already scheduled to go to Disney in June (and yes, I know, I watched the movie where the people in 3rd world countries were making the Disney t-shirts and could have fed their families for weeks on what one shirt sells for. I …
