Big bowl of nutrition
I eat healthy, nutritious, real food. Even my indulgences (like a certain muffin obsession) are healthy and can be consumed on a regular basis without question. I think back to my diet when I was a high school and college basketball player and shudder, it was pretty opposite to what I eat now, though I have always been a fan →
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 →
Autumn Granola
I love the fall and daylight savings time is probably my favorite day of the fall since I get to wake up early with the sun coming up like I do in the summer, without sacrificing it being my favorite part of the year. The changing of the seasons never ceases to change my appetite drastically. Where in the summer →
Gluten Free Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
Food is often equated with or can provoke both strong positive and negative memories. During the fall, as the weather cools and the leaves change color and fall to the ground, I think back fondly to my time in Pittsburgh when I was in library school. I loved the fall there. I can remember getting in my little kitchen and →
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. →
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 →
Sunny days and good food with Family
Sunday was damn near a perfect day for me. I spent the early morning running through the quiet sunny streets of Seattle and the rest of the day hanging out, talking, enjoying some of my favorite people and also some damn good food. Spring finally peeked its little head out and the sun was shining, it is so refreshing and →
Banana Ginger Muffins
The other day before physical therapy, I headed up to the top of Queen Anne in search of an amazing, eggless pastry treat. I am not big into sweets much anymore, not sure when that happened. I use to be such a sweet fiend, but now I rarely crave anything sweeter than a scone or a not sweet muffin, I →
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 →
Monday Morning Pancakes
I am mad at breakfast. Really, really mad. One of the things I was most looking forward to about not being Vegan was having breakfast back. But I got robbed. I found out I was allergic to eggs and I already am sensitive to wheat. While it is still possible I am a Celiac, I have been doing a bit →
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 →
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 →
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 →
My kind of weekend
What a glorious weekend. No, I didn't jet set or road trip off to somewhere exciting. No, I didn't do anything even that interesting. But it was perfect. I did exactly what I wanted and needed. Run, eat and sleep. After being sick, tired and working a bunch a four day weekend was just what the doctor ordered. By friday, I →
What really matters after a race…
The food of course! After running such a (mindboggling) distance as I did on Saturday, it is necessary to give the body proper fueling and rest so that you can recover quickly. I say (mindboggling) because there is a part of me that absolutely lacks the ability to comprehend the type of distance that I covered or the type of effort →
