Homemade Lentil and Veggie Ziti Winter blues are real and can appear in the kitchen with little creativity and yearning for flavor. I was listening to the Bon Appetit podcast, Food People, where they were talking about this very topic. Farmers Markets and subscription boxes are not as vibrant as…

I somehow skipped November and December. Between being busy with work, emotional drained and all the new, not new pandemic news, I felt like I was empty and had nothing left to share. I wanted to share a recipe my Italian godmother taught me years ago, but felt like no…

Back in the spring of 2021, there was a news story of a rocket having an ‘uncontrolled reentry to Earth’ and with the subheading, “the chances are not zero”. It was here that I could totally relate. We were just over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and my anxiety…

Well, here we are, still deep in the pandemic and most places I look, it’s business as usual. I get it, everyone is in a different place when it comes to COVID-19. but the parallels between what I am going through and what I went through with cancer are too…

Week 2- Here we go:) This week I am featuring pesto as our Virtual Vegan Cooking Club recipe. Pesto is such a versatile dish that can be spread over pizza, polenta rounds, pasta,crackers and more. I thought this would be a fun recipe this week and leave it to you all to see what herbs…

I first started writing about food and sharing vegan recipes in July 2013. The initial idea came about when I was often asked what I was having for lunch at work and people were surprised there was no meat, eggs or dairy. “But what do you eat?” I was asked…

It has been a full year since the world shut down last March and it has been an emotional roller coaster ever sense with what felt like a new fear, worry or panic driven thought everyday. In my last piece I wrote about the beginning of a potential end and…

I started this post two weeks after I got my first COVID-19 vaccine, but work and stress got in the way and now it is almost a week after my second dose and it feels even more poignant to write this. The vaccine process was very smooth, I love being…