Race Week Nutrition
Tree Hugger in Provence. Photo by the GripMaster. I missed a week of baking, cooking, etc. I apologize. I was in France attending Salomon Advanced Week (which you can read about here). There was running, eating pretty decent French food and some good fun. But I am back now and doing a power taper for my race this Saturday, the Lake →
Christmas Feast and New Cooks in the Late Year
Christmas Eve Traditions Christmas Eve dinner for as long as I can remember has always been the same meal for my family. No matter where we are, it doesn't really feel like Christmas unless we are noshing on prime rib for dinner and my sister's special sugar cookies. Even though when we get together the question is often posed, "what do →
Ragu alla Napoletana
After spending nearly a month in the mountains, followed by another couple of busy weeks, not being able to cook anything super fancy or really exercise my culinary skills, I decided that I wanted to try and make something fun, delicious and slow cooked. I was craving a meaty red sauce, so I found a recipe for Ragu alla Napoletana →
Sweet Summer Eating. Perspective Cooking.
I am finally back in the land of kitchens and culinary, back from a transformative journey brimming with ideas, direction and passion. Passion which is directed not just towards my running, but my passion for cooking. I am more motivated than ever to share my recipes, nutritional know how and culinary skills. It makes me giddy to think about getting →
Campsite Top Chef
Curried Lentils with Roast Carrots, Stir-Fry Broccoli with garlic, onions and spices, Greek Salad, Chili-Spiked Roast Butternut squash, Chili loaded with organic veg, Corn on the Cob roasted in the Husk. Sounds like something straight out of a hardworking, well equipped kitchen right? Sure it does, but that would be easy. All of that was created while camping out here →
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. →
Ostrich Kao Gra Prow & Quick Cooked Asian Greens
I love Asian food- you name it Japanese, Thai, Korean, not so much Chinese, but you get the idea. I love the flavor profiles. Ginger, garlic, tamarind, soy sauce (wheat free of course), thai basil and on and on. I also love how simple a lot of the recipes are. I mean have you ever gone out to a Thai →
Tuna Casserole- or not, by any other name
Maybe its because I was thinking about my good friend Alison Hanks who lives up in Winthrop, who happens to like tuna casserole. Or maybe I had taboo foods on the brain because of Karina's blog about garden loaf. But for whatever reason, I had the strangest desire last night to make something inspired by traditional tuna casserole. Now, let →
Practically Perfect in Every Way & Sloppy “James”
Somedays just come together in a way that you can't even imagine being more perfect, where you go to bed with a smile on your face because you know you accomplished everything you wanted to do and more. While I live my life in a way that means that hopefully I experience that sense of satisfaction and bliss on a →
Balsamic Onion, Dried Cranberry, Arugula Stuffed Chicken Breast
All aboard the crazy train to flavor town! Sometimes I have serious self-doubts. About all things. Including my ability as a cook. I wonder if it is really only me that thinks me recipes are delicious or if I am really actually reaching anyone with my healthy gourmet food. Simple, nutritious and delicious. Over the weekend, I got a nice →
Farewell Fare for a beautiful spring day
I am once again about to head out on the road for a bit to San Francisco, DC, San Diego and Belgium, so I decided that last night I wanted to actually spend sometime in the kitchen cooking a nice farewell dinner for my mom. I had to cook a meal to hold her over for a month or two →
Simple Foods
And so winter drags on here in Seattle. After spending a few beautiful and warm (well warm-ish) days in Winthrop, WA, I am back in Seattle where it is cold, rainy and windy. This weather makes me hungry. And that is saying something since I am so rarely hungry, which I know is quite bizarre for an ultraunner. After a →
Pleasures of the flesh
Ah the pleasures of the flesh. No silly, not that kind of flesh. Potatoes. Come on, this is a food blog, the only porn you'll ever see on here is food porn (unless a sneaky spam bot successfully gets itself into my comments...). Yesterday mid morning, I was struck by an intense desire to eat (another) something I haven't had →
Go West, Young Salad
I like Hummus on my salads. Alot. However, traditional hummus doesn't necessarily go with every kind of salad. I was in the mood for a Southwestern inspired salad so I made a "winter worthy" salad by adding sweet potato roast disks and a chili bean-corn spicy hummus. While the look of this particular hummus came out looking more like steak →
A ratatouille of my own
I really like Ratatouille. Ratatouille is one of those "recipes" that is just so me. Because it is less recipe, more concept. It is a general assembly of a certain group of ingredients, that end up something like a stew. While Julia Childs insisted on cooking her ingredients separately and then baking them all together and even the fabulous recipe →
Jam!! Roll that is
After getting back on the fig bandwagon on Christmas Eve, due to an amazing Fig Onion Compote that I served with some Mary's Crackers and a selection of artisan cheeses, I decided that I wanted, no I needed more figgy goodness. I wanted something in a roll or pastry form that wasn't sweet and not too bready. What came of →
Warm Winter Salad and Christmas Eve Dinner
I really don't know what kind of foodie I am since I failed to record in any way my Christmas Eve dinner. I think I got caught up in the festivities, the craziness, the hodgepodge and the "doesn't this just figures" like the lights going out and my uncle's fiance's cat having to be taken to the vet to be →
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 →
Bunkerdown Brussel Sprouts & Other Roast Veg
There is a huge secondary storm rolling into Seattle this evening and in preparation I headed to the grocery store in order to buy enough Brussel Sprouts to help me ride it out. Actually, I picked up my mom and took her to the grocery store because her car was already stuck in her garage which is at the bottom →
Peri Peri Roast Chicken w/ Kale Goat Cheese Pesto & Mushroom Ragu over Spaghetti Squash
After a long drive back from Atlanta and enduring everything from getting lost in Oklahoma to getting a speeding ticket in Colorado to being slowed by the snow all the way from Utah to Seattle, all I wanted to do when I got home was get in the kitchen! I recuperated for one day, but then hit the ground running →
Food Porn and the perpetual pursuit of the perfect brussel sprout
I am going to be evil for a second and post a bunch of pictures of wonderful things that I cooked while I was in Seattle & SF, including Thanksgiving dinner, but not post their recipes. Ok, ok, I apologize. I'll post the one I made today because it was so damn delicious and I am always trying to cajole →
Getting back in the game
The foodie in me has been reinvigorated lately. Between amazing eating in Italy, new fun cookbooks, reading good books about food/eating and the deepening of fall into the space with crisp cool air and vibrant leaves on the trees, I find myself wanting to do nothing but cook and experiment in the kitchen and run (preferably in the early morning →
Calm before the Storm
Tapering can be fun if you are able to distract yourself from the various aches and pains that show up and occupy the time you usually spend running. I have done a good job of not having too much "tapering madness" as well as not over or under tapering. Tapering for a 100k race can be tricky. You can't back →
Recovery Day Cooking
One of the nice things about Mondays for me is the fact that it is a rest day, thus I have a bit more time to do some things that I can't on any other day. Usually it doesn't pan out that way however. I usually get wrapped up in work, errands and just trying to keep it together. Today →
