My Life in the Kitchen

My Life in the Kitchen

When I add up all the time I spend planning, shopping, organizing, cooking, and cleaning up the kitchen it's plain to see the job of preparing food for my family is the number one thing I do. I spend more time on this multifaceted job than I do homeschooling, photo taking, gardening (part of the garden is for food after all), hiking, and any other thing I might write about here.

In this series I explore all that.


Favorite Tools for a Whole Foods (Plant-Based) Kitchen

Favorite Tools for a Whole Foods (Plant-Based) Kitchen

The five indispensable tools I use in my kitchen all the time, enabling our family to make delicious and healthy whole, plant-based foods.

A Vegan Summer CSA Menu Plan

A Vegan Summer CSA Menu Plan

I never know from week to week exactly what vegetables will be included in our weekly share. This summer I made menu prep (from a seasonal csa share) easier by creating a set menu plan each week that I just "plug" the vegetables into.

Our mostly plant based diet

Our mostly plant based diet

Yes, I still love the taste of cheese and why I choose plants instead. Our family's plant-based diet food guidelines and vegan kitchen.

Time I spend feeding my family

Time I spend feeding my family

Meals are cornerstone daily rituals we plan for, anticipate, cook, sit down and eat and of course clean up after three times each day. This makes me think it would be nice to live in a place where they only eat 2 meals a day - does such a place exist?

The economics of eating local

The economics of eating local

I don't know what things are like where you live but around here local foods cost more. This seems a shame but the reality is that local food costs reflect the true cost of food.

Salads: what we eat for lunch

Salads: what we eat for lunch

How we came to eat meal-sized salads for lunch and our favorite salad recipe.

I cook therefore I am ~ Kitchen series introduction

I cook therefore I am ~ Kitchen series introduction

Generally, I don't write a lot about food on my blog but I'm going to explore the topic in a series.