*Recipe Update – after checking in with BF, I had to update this recipe* I am extremely lucky to have a wonderful boyfriend. As an artist, he has a very flexible schedule and is frequently working at home. Over the summer he has been taking care of many things that I have been too busy to attend to. Most importantly, he’s become the main...

Sometimes, I just want to eat my meal out of one bowl. I don’t want to fuss with a salad plate, or a side dish. I want everything to be concise. Compact. Together in a nice little package. Somehow, eating out of one bowl doesn’t necessarily mean that the recipe is simple and compact. Usually when I eat out of one bowl, I manage to dirty...

The other night I was in the mood for something a little different. I was craving color. Do you ever get that? The urge to eat a specific food, or a specific color. I guess I was feeling that my food had been too monochromatic lately and I wanted something a little more vibrant. I also didn’t want to spend a lot of time cooking. I’ve recently...

Although this defies the rule of eating a spectrum of colors at every meal, I think this improvised dinner came together quite nicely. I had a craving for the nutty flavor of kasha, which cooks in under 10 minutes. This was so simple, I’m not sure I can even write a recipe for it, but I’ll try. I’ll just describe what I did in recipe...