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Chia Seed Power Pudding

February 18, 2011
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First of all, thank you guys so much for welcoming Matt and Elise with your comments and enthusiastic discussions. And thanks of course to the two of them for being such fantastic guest posters! Midterms. They came. They saw. They conquered. Well, that’s not totally fair: I held my own really well in Calculus and [...]

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Quality, Quantity: My Thoughts on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines

February 2, 2011
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On Monday, federal regulators released Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010. The 112 page report, which you can read for yourself here, is certainly not without its virtues. Americans are urged to reduce consumption of salt, solid fats, cholesterol, and proteins containing solid fats (a nice way of saying, meat). They’re urged to eat less fish [...]

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If You See Me, Say Hello

January 21, 2011
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Today marks the end of my first official week of classes. Phew! We haven’t covered much territory, but even so, it feels good to have a few classes under my belt. And, with a full load of chem, physics, calculus, and physics lab, I’m already knee deep in homework. Homework! Wow. It’s been a while.

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It Ain’t Easy Being Green

January 20, 2011
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As some of you may know, I have a love hate relationship with green smoothies. I want to like them, I do. They’re the currency of the raw food world, and who doesn’t need more greens in her diet? (OK, I may be one of the few people who actually doesn’t need more greens in [...]

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Cheesy Red Pepper Hemp Dip

September 22, 2010
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I suppose it’s unavoidable that, when you’re been writing a food blog for a certain amount of time, you begin to forget about past recipes. Finding them is like stumbling upon a garment you bought years ago, and left to flounder in the back of your closet. You think, “Oh right! This shirt.” That’s precisely [...]

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Hemp Bliss

July 6, 2010

No, that title is not in any way meant to suggest the elevated aftermath of certain smokeable substances. Wrest your minds from the gutter! It is a reference to one of the most popular brands of hemp milk. And this weekend, I concluded that homemade hemp milk — though I honestly don’t have a basis [...]

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Surf n’ Turf, + iHerb Giveaway

May 2, 2010

Happy Sunday, friends. I appreciate your kind words about my mom’s boyfriend’s son — they meant the world to me. So in my last post, I mentiond that I grew up eating a little differently from most of my Greek fam. They were carnivorous; red meat made me squirm. They liked their veggies cooked through; [...]

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