Winter Salad

I do mental inventories of what’s in the fridge while I’m in yoga. Irreverent and totally against every yoga sutra, I know. But I like to consider it part of my relaxation and mediation. Is it so wrong that thinking about what I’m going to make for dinner puts me at ease? Helps me focus.

So it was during one such sanctimonious yoga practice that I remembered the red potatoes in the back of the refrigerator.

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Pasta Proficiency

You think you know your pastas…until you’re holding the menu trying to decide between the gigli in a zucchini cream sauce or the radiatori in a cashew pesto. And you have to stop to shamefully admit (first to yourself and then to your server) that you don’t know what the hell gigli or radiatori is.

Oh the humiliation.

I think there are like thousands of pasta varieties out there, all divided up into groups by shape. Knowing them all is pretty out of the question and unnecessary. But knowing the ones that’ll pop up on a menu is a reasonable goal.

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Good ass granola

Granola is all my favorite things in one. Dried fruit. Nuts. Oats. Sweetness. Saltiness. Crunchiness. I could eat granola until I’m sick. And I have. Cluster after cluster, I just can’t stop. It’s a compulsion maybe? Actually had to cut myself off of the hempseed variety in the bulk section at Whole Foods on the basis of indecent consumption. What’s the big deal? It’s just granola, you say?

Problem is, that while store bought granola is seemingly nutritious, it’s always pretty high in fat and sugar. Therefore I don’t buy it. I make it instead.

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Eggs Poached in Tomato Sauce

I know this isn’t the prettiest photo. And I do feel bad about that. I hate to give you a second-rate photograph of something so freaking delicious. But let’s just say that I was so anxious to eat this that I rushed through photographing it….and whoops.

I love eggs. And I’ll take my yolks runny, please. You know what else I love? Tomato sauce. So what do I think about eggs poached in tomato sauce? Um, out of control.

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Eat up, Orlando.

If you’re going to eat out, this is a good week to. And if you don’t typically eat out, this is a good excuse to. Cause believe it or not, there are TWO events celebrating food happening this upcoming week in Orlando.
Eat Local Week and the Vietnamese New Year Festival.
I hope you’re as excited about this as I am.

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