Zucchini Aplenty
My youngest sister, Arielle, is living with me this summer while she works in the garden at Warren Wilson College, about 25 minutes away from my home. Lucky for us, she brings home vegetables and...
View ArticleAn Apple A Day
I first heard about An Apple A Day a few months after moving to Asheville, but it took about 1.5 years before I actually experienced what all of the buzz around this quaint mom-and-pop restaurant was...
View ArticleTomato Dressing
The other day my new next door neighbors left a basket of tomatoes on my back porch. They had too many in their garden and they didn’t want any to go to waste. Lucky for me that I live next door. Now...
View ArticleSummer Green Bean Salad
Call me crazy, but this summer I was fortunate to have my youngest sister live with me for about six weeks. It was the first time the two of us lived under the same roof for an extended period of time...
View ArticleWest End Bakery
Some days call for dining out. Typically, most of my meals are homemade, but when my mom drove 11 hours from my hometown in New York all the way down to Asheville, I thought it would be fun to...
View ArticleBlack-Eyed Pea and Collard Stew
Over the last two years, since I moved to North Carolina from New York, I have learned a lot about southern living. Sometimes it really feels like a different country down here, but I love it! Just a...
View ArticleSo long Asheville! Hello Cincinnati!
I admit it – I was spoiled in Asheville. Spoiled rotten, in fact. Mom-and-pop shops and restaurants offered endless supplies of local produce and menu items that were both delicious and could...
View ArticlePulled Chicken & Raw Kale Salad
While I personally choose to refrain from eating animal protein on a regular basis, I realize that we are all different and that for some, eating meat makes them feel better compared to how they feel...
View ArticleJuicing
Juicing and I have had an on-again-off-again relationship for about 5 years. I bought my first juicer before juicing went mainstream – well may be it’s still not as mainstream as say, the gluten-free...
View ArticleOkra and Red Lentils
I never heard of okra before moving to the south. It’s popular there, where it grows easily because there is little frost. The first time I brought it home I thought that my okra was spoiled because...
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