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Be Your Own Valentine: A Guide to Self-Love and Self-Care

Continue to celebrate Valentine's Day by showering yourself with love and care. Make each day all about nurturing your relationship with yourself. How do you love yourself? It’s time to count the ways. February is Heart Health Awareness Month and we are continuing our...

Heartstrong: Navigating Your Path To Cardiovascular Wellness

February is Heart Health Awareness Month and we’re here to help you take care of your ticker. Considering all of the factors that affect our health, we hope you find these strategies and tips useful and doable. In the United States, heart disease is a leading cause of...

Mental Health and Nutrition: How to Recognize the Impact on Eating Habits

As a Registered Dietitian, I've witnessed firsthand the profound impact that our mental health has on our eating habits and vice versa. It's a connection that can't be ignored, yet many healthcare providers may miss the subtle signs that patients hide or deny. The...

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,...

La Festa dei Sette Pesci

I'm too full to make up a new post for today, so I'm recycling last year's.  Going to lie down now. As I scour my wardrobe looking for a pair of pants with an elasticized waist, I reminisce about Christmas Eves past at my parents' house and the many family members...

Quasi-recipe: Lovely lentils

Inspired by one of my favorite side dishes at LIC Market, I set off to incorporate lentils into my salad yesterday.  There are so many good things about lentils and they're so simple to make, dressing them up or down as you like.  As a kid, I remember having...

Recipe: It’s quinoa-nderful!

Instead of oatmeal, I sometimes like to use quinoa for my morning meal.  It's just as nutty, filling, and tasty as an instant oatmeal package would be, but better, nutritionally (be mindful of your calorie intake for the rest of the day since quinoa's a little up...