The Athlete’s Plate: A book review
Recently VeloPress contacted me about checking out and doing a review of one of their new publications: The Athlete's Plate by Adam Kelinson When they told me it was a "real food" cookbook for athletes by a chef/athlete, I was excited to check it out. Frankly, I was also jealous. The idea is very similar to what I want to do →
A little bit aloha
I know I promised. Promised to be a good bloggie and post lots of fantastic recipes to have you zooming around the roads and trails and in life. And smacking your lips and rubbing your belly saying, yummmm that was good. But well, I was busy. Busy sitting on that beach in sunny, warm, beautiful Hawaii. I was there for →
Happy Holidays and New Year
I have been absent. I know. I apologize. It was necessary. You see I have been taking care of one of my goals, a necessary thing to go forward with my life: finding a place to call home. For the majority of this year I have bounced around, having with me only enough stuff (including my knife roll!!!) to cover the →
This week (and a half) on my plate
Wow. Where did the last 10 days go? I feel like I was just revealing in my Lithia Loop run and here I am now post-JFK 50 mile run (read all about it here). Before and after the race, I ate some amazing things. It's funny sometimes to think about what an awesome foodie life I have. I live in →
This week on my plate
After really digging in and getting writing again on my "non-running/non-food" blog and letting my writing and personality shine through on that blog, I realize that I have continually, but slow and surely removed a lot of my voice from this blog. That is of course the last thing I want to do. Part of what makes a food blog →
Future of Foodie
I feel like my food blog writing has become less personal. I feel like since I started recording my "life" thoughts over on The Delicious Journey that my food blog has become, well, solely about food. And while that is fine, after all it is a food blog, I want to maintain my voice, my enthusiasm. My daily food experiences →
Road Food- what’s your excuse
I am back on the road again. Up in Colorado trying to acclimatize to the killer altitude before running TransRockies from Aug 23-28th. I know it will be hard enough just to run, so I wanted to minimize the suffering where I can. That means 3 weeks pretty much without a kitchen. Am I worried, heck no! I am a →
Back to the basic, my bibimbap
At the beginning of this year, I was motivated. I was driven. I was ready to establish my food writing as consistent and present. I wanted to share my love for cooking, my navigation through my eating special needs and my support of my nutritional needs from endurance sport. I thought and still think I have something unique to offer. →
Italian vacation, a bite sized snap shot
Central Market, Florence, Italy. I have been absent, I know. Like I said I would be. But it truly does seem like forever since I have posted something new for you. I have been busy living life and sometimes life moves so fast that we choose not to slow down to record it. But, while in Italy for vacation/work I experienced →
In Absentia
I haven't posted in a bit. I have been away. And I am not back. I am somewhere in between, paused for a moment to hover in "normal" daily life before zipping off again to Belgium, Auburn, then Italy (yes Auburn sounds a little lame sandwiched between those two others but it is for WS100 pacing, which will be a →
Smooth Operator
My nutritionist would be proud. I made a smoothie. I like smoothies, especially after hard runs or races, they are a great way to get in calories without taking much digestive effort or space. My nutritionist recommended that I start drinking a smoothie in the morning before my first run in an attempt to increase my calories. And for me, →
Traveler’s Toolkit
One of the things that I have realized/confirmed (since I really I already knew it) while "homeless" is that it is extremely easy to cook fresh, organic, amazingly delicious anywhere. I mean I have cooked a 5 star quality meal on a camping stove, it should be easy to create fabulous dishes in the "luxury" accommodations of various friends and →
SLOW down
It feels like 10 years since I left Seattle, instead of the 10ish days it has been. I have been so busy and caught up that I have felt like numerous lifetimes have passed. I have barely been able to catch my breathe. Until today. It was snowing outside here in Atlanta and I had no plans, so I decided →
Where is the love?
Food love that is. Where oh where has the fast foodie loving of food and fine dining gone? Moving thats where. It has been a hectic and crazy busy week + trying to get squared away and there has been not much going down in my kitchen unfortunately. Not much at all. I have been distracted and directing my inspiration →
Moderation is key.
I had an interesting conversation with my cousin recently about the phenomena know as Orthorexia and have been doing some research on it ever since. Orthorexia is an obsession with maintaining a healthy diet, in the obsessive way an anorexic tries to restrict to lose weight an orthorexic tries to maintain a pure diet. Same level of obsession. When I →
Bizarre Desires
Running will make you crave bizarre things. I went through a stage where post long-run all I wanted in the world was turkey. Turkey, Turkey, Turkey. And I had never before been a turkey fan. I usually want a veggie burrito. Sometimes I will just want enough brussel sprouts to make my head explode. I usually don't want sweet things →
Oddfellows
"When did every restaurant start offering such small portions? When did it become hip to not eat anything? Or has it always been this way and I just didn't notice." That was the commentary from my companion as we stared at our plates in front of us at Oddfellows Cafe & Bar on Capitol Hill. We had just finished a →
Fresh baked: Muse in Movement
I have been doing a great deal of work on my new blog, trying to shape it and refine it to reflect what I want it to be. I desire to increase its readership and bring my food to the world. In the transition, I have worked on separating the foodie parts of my blog, from the running part. While →
The Shameless Carnivore, Omnivore’s Dilemma and the Moral Vegan
It is no secret, if you've followed my blog, that I have struggled and gone back and forth in defining my own nutritional and eating philosophy. Now, I find myself having come full circle to where I was when I was in culinary school, what I have summed up by pointing to the words of Michael Pollen in "In Defense →
Catching up
Ok, so the "I'm going to be better about blogging" thing didn't actually pan out, but hey, that's how life goes. Alot has been going on.... lots of running in preparation for the 100k World Championships, including killer runs on the Silver Comet trail (37 miles at 7:01min/mile) and other nice long runs around Atlanta... oh yeah moving "temporarily indefinitely" →
Run for your life. A summer retrospective.
Blessed are we who suffer, for we are the lucky ones.I was running today in the beautiful afternoon sunshine, pulling a 6:20 up a shallow hill after 10 similar speedy miles and I was struck by something strong enough to pull me out of my blogging silence. I was tired, my body was working hard to keep on the pace →
Define to undefine to define myself
I never realized how much I didn't, deep down inside, define myself as a vegan until someone asked me to commit to my status as one. Organic Athlete, a vegan organization, at my behest invited me to be one of their Pro-Activists and this means signing on for the vegan cause, being a representation of veganism and removing the choice →
The Bestest Ever-est: Final Peak week and Taper Time
I have made it over the mountain so to speak. Sunday capped off my third and finaly peak week of training for Western States. It was a great week of training, though it was spotted with moments where I thought I just wouldn't be able to push on for another mile. But I did push through those miles and at →
A confessional
I am not a moral vegan, though I do identify with the cause, I have maintained that I eat what I do because it is what my body wants. I have also maintained that if my body suddenly tells me it wants something else, than I will comply. Tonight after my second run of the day with SRC (finally back on →
