I’ve got a REALLY cool opportunity to share with you! This Wednesday, August 8, at 6pm, I will be interviewing Manisha of IndianFoodRocks.com LIVE on Google+—and you’re invited! Manisha is a wife and mother living here on the Front Range in Colorado, but she is originally from India and blogs about her “personal journey through a...
“Eating Organic Can be Easier Than You Think”—Broomfielder Magazine
Huge thanks to local Broomfielder Magazine for their great piece on shopping for organics! I was honored to be interviewed as a local expert—huge thanks to local writer Todd Tuell for contacting me. Click here to read a PDF of the piece.
12 Creative Ways to Use Up Vegetable Scraps {Budget Organic No. 1}
I’m challenging myself to eat more sustainably over the next year—and documenting the steps I take in this series, inspired by an article in the Jul/Aug 2010 issue of Whole Living Magazine. Local, organic, free-range, rainforest certified, antibiotic-free—it can get really confusing out there in food land when you’re trying to make the best possible...
How This One Common Mistake Could be Turning Your Child into a Picky Eater—And How to Fix It
Are you out of ideas to try to get your toddler to try new foods? I’ve got one easy rule that could be the answer to your dinnertime prayers! Click play to watch the video below and learn all about the Mix & Match Rule and how it can CHANGE dinnertime at your house...
More Colors = Better Nutrition
A great reminder that eating lots of different kinds of foods makes for the best nutrition. It’s not enough to say you’re eating fruits and vegetables when all you eat are apples, bananas, tomatoes, and potatoes. 🙂 We’ve got to eat a wide variety of foods to get the best possible nutrition. I’m so...
6 Lies Mommies Tell
It’s one of the most important lessons we all try to teach our children: don’t lie. Yet, as mommies (and probably daddies too, though I don’t have any firsthand experience!) we are guilty of lying all the time. Oh, maybe you make a point not to lie to your spouse or your kids. Maybe...
This Week I’m Grateful For…
This week I’m grateful that I wasn’t at a midnight showing of Batman last night. My thoughts and prayers are with the people in Aurora affected by the shooting. That the alleged shooter was an undergrad at the campus where my husband works is all the more blood chilling for me. I am grateful...
Recipe: Whoopie Chais (or Chai Whoopie Pies)
When I was making tandoori-style chicken sandwiches the other night, I kept thinking it would be nice to have some chai cookies to go along with it. I had just been over to Rebecca Johnson’s house for a tea party—a chai tea party, because she is the founder of Chaibecca, a boutique chai company...
4 Ideas to Make Family Dinners Special
Family dinner was a big deal in my family when I was growing up. No matter how busy we all were, no matter what else was going on in our lives, whoever was home sat down and ate together for dinner. Even when my mother was on the road as a sales rep, my...
Flavor, Locality, Humanity and Nutrition
Had a fun morning as an “extra” at SALT Bistro in Boulder where they were filming a spot for one of the local morning shows. (You can see me and the fam in the first video at about the 0:37 mark.) We got to partake of some excellent farm-fresh scrambled eggs; a gorgeous root...