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Alzheimer’s Disease: Is It All in Your Head?

Our June focus has been all about brain health and Alzheimer's awareness. (If you missed our last Wellness Webinar on these very topics, don't worry! It'll be uploaded to our YouTube channel in a few weeks.) Alzheimer's disease is not a natural change that comes with...

Don’t Stress: Taking Comfort in Emotional Eating

April is Stress Awareness Month, so let's discuss emotional eating and comfort foods for a moment. It's no surprise the majority of us have been undergoing an extraordinary amount of stress the past few years, more so than usual, resulting in burnout and other mental...

Meal Planning Is Great, but What About Food Security?

Our January focus has been all about meal planning, but that assumes that people have access to affordable and nutritious foods. Regardless if we are talking about whole ingredients or canned goods, let's discuss food insecurity in the U.S. for a moment. According to...

Recipe: Simply Seitan-ical

I ate my meal so quickly the other night that I didn't stop to photograph it, so you'll just have to use your imagination while you read (or look at it yourself when you make your own version). When I got my first apartment back in 1994, one of my favorite meals to...

Recipe Remix: Chili-stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Remember this chili recipe? Well, here's a super simple way to rejigger it: make it, but omit the sweet potato/carrot in the mix. Instead, while the chili's cooking, roast a sweet potato1 in the oven, then stuff each half of the potato with the chili and sprinkle...

Cold cuts

I'm sick.  I've been pretending like I wasn't, but, finally, this morning, I gave in and canceled all my plans for the day, lied down on the sofa, and spent the entire day sipping hot tea with honey, knocking back meds, and blowing my nose. I thought I was taking...

Recipe: Open-faced BBQ Tempeh Sandwich & Sides

This photo does no justice to tonight's meal [note to self: learn how to take better photos of food] which was a vegan feast of barbecue-style tempeh, potato salad*, and the usual string bean side dish.  In the world of processed vegan protein foods, the bf and I...

Recipe: Leftovers Salad

Recipe: Leftovers Salad

The East Village is not exactly known for its spacious apartments. As a matter of fact, my building, much like many of the surrounding ones, is a renovated tenement, which once contained large, shared areas, often housing hundreds of residents at a time from the late...

So juicy.

I don't think I've ever blogged about juicing before, so today's your lucky day, reader!A few years ago, the bf bought me this monster chomper and, while I don't use it as often as I'd like (hello, sinkful of dirty dishes and compost bucketful of discards), when I do,...