day 7 – over the hump

day 7 – over the hump

Sara Dickerman is the creator of the 2014 Food Lover’s Cleanse and there was a chat/Q&A session with her yesterday on Bon Appétit’s Facebook page. There were a lot of good questions and comments, but one that I hadn’t really thought about was...
day 5 – monday mealtime

day 5 – monday mealtime

The deal at our house typically is that if I cook, my husband cleans (or vice versa). He’s got it easy lately as most of these recipes come together relatively simply, with minimal pots, pans or general trashing of the kitchen. Take it from me and make it simple...
cleanse cocktail

cleanse cocktail

Cleanse cocktail? Isn’t that an oxymoron? It conjured up visions of a drink that would include kale and vinegar with maybe some cayenne and garlic and that would involve plugging my nose to gag down. Boy was I happily surprised when I scanned the ingredients and...
delicious day 2

delicious day 2

Day 2 full steam ahead! Today I was at a photo studio art directing package photography for a client. The photographer and food stylist are great and they photograph a lot of food but the studio could easily be the pitfall of any eating plan – there is always...
persimmon bruschetta

persimmon bruschetta

My friend Heather is in the process of moving from Boise to Los Gatos and normally I’d do an intervention  – siting that she must be temporarily insane to give up the clean air, easy access to mountains and rivers and a bounty of friends for the high cost of...