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On Cooking and Mental Health
I’m stuck in that moment where I’m teetering on the edge of a cliff, fearing the unknown vastness but excited about the potential for flight. I don’t feel very present in my every day reality, in fact I’m leaving trails for myself to make the days less prone to the effects of my distraction. I…
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Creamy Sweet Bell Pepper Soup
And just like that summer has become a distant memory, forever tucked into the backs of our minds throughout winter as a time full of golden light and perpetual warmth. The rain is back in Vancouver, very much needed but selfishly difficult to accept as routine again. The sunny days we have now seem muted…
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Smoked Duck Breast Salad with Peaches and Butter Lettuce
How do the perpetually anxious keep focused on slow days? This particular specimen likes to fantasize about food prep, the blissful combination of mindfulness and mindlessness involved with slicing and dicing up that evening’s meal. These daydreams work like a pendulum, the back and forth motion of my knife sends me into a state of…
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Fresh Fig and Blueberry Frozen Yogurt
It wasn’t until a few years ago that I fell in love with fresh figs, even then the path to get there was full of resistance. In truth, I can’t stand dried figs. Maybe this all stems from childhood, during the wild heyday of Fig Newtons. For some reason my mom refused to buy them…
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Eggs in a Vegetable Nest
This quick dinner is neither a true hash nor a true succotash, but combines elements of both depending on the ingredients available to you in the moment. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve relied on this simple equation on nights when I’ve been out all day long and don’t even have the energy…