If I'm being honest, sometimes I get a little jealous of Owen's breakfasts. There are the maple-syrup drenched waffles before preschool. The crumb-topped blueberry muffins. The weekend trips to the bakery where he has a chocolate frosted donut with rainbow sprinkles and I have...a cup of coffee. ...
Morning Glory Smoothie with Quinoa (Gluten-Free & Vegan)
Be honest. Are your mornings glorious these days? Mine definitely aren't. They usually start around 6:15AM, when Owen appears at my side of the bed asking 1) if he can watch TV, and 2) if he can have something totally inappropriate for breakfast, like M&Ms or Cheez-Its. I steel myself and tell ...
Grapefruit Ginger Green Juice
It's the first week of January, which means I'll actually be motivated to use my juicer for the next five minutes! Seriously though, this grapefruit ginger green juice is about to become a big part of my life, because I'm giving up coffee temporarily. I'm not one of those people who drinks ...
Butternut Squash Pomegranate Smoothie
My mom went through a phase of eating half a butternut squash for dinner. I must have been in middle school at the time. I remember it because she usually just ate whatever my brother and I were having (spaghetti), and then all of a sudden she started preparing something separately just for herself. ...
Honey Tangerine Whiskey Sour
I have this vivid memory of making Midori sours with my friend Laura. We must have been 23 at the time. The drinks were electric green and required just three ingredients: Midori melon-flavored liquor, store-bought sour mix, and maraschino cherries. The food snob in me now winces at ...
Extra Thick Sweet Potato Hot Chocolate (Paleo, Vegan & Gluten-Free)
I like my hot chocolate thick as cream, so it coats the back of my throat, and it's debatable whether I should use a spoon to eat it. There's just one problem: I don't actually want to drink a mug of heavy cream. So how do you make hot chocolate that is ultra-decadent without being ultra-caloric ...
Five Ingredient Spiced Pear Bellini
In my whole life, I've lived alone for exactly one month. I was 25 and had just quit my job and moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, leaving behind my tight-knit group of girlfriends to strike out on my own in a new borough. I moved in with a girl I barely knew; I met her through Craigslist when she ...
Vegan Gluten-Free Oatmeal Raisin Smoothie
Can I ask you all a very important question? Do you feel like boxed salad greens go bad at an insanely fast rate? Sometimes it seems like I'm not even out of the grocery store parking lot before there is a rotten leaf of spinach in there, poisoning the whole plastic clamshell. It drives me ...
Concord Grape Soda
In my house growing up, we kept all our family photo albums in a bookcase next to the fireplace. They were really beautiful—red and green and brown leather with gold trim. But on the shelf above them was a stack of loose photographs that we loved looking at even more—our family outtakes. (This was ...
White Wine Mojito
What are you up to this penultimate weekend of summer? Sorry. It's just... I love that word. Seriously, what have you got planned? We are going to take Owen swimming at a local lake, and on Sunday night we got a babysitter and Alex and I are going to try out this new craft beer bar, plus a ...
