Healthy Recipes

A friend of mine, a guy named Marcus who can barely boil pasta, asked me why I couldn’t just use chicken broth instead of turkey … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery tucked between a dry cleaner and a used bookstore on Main Street called “The Gilded Crumb.” They made … Read more

This was supposed to be chili. I mean, a big, warming pot of chili was the plan—the kind that simmers for an hour while you … Read more

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me struggle with a too-wet batch of pumpkin puree for a solid minute before … Read more

I was at my local hardware store, of all places, picking up a new rake handle in early November, when the man behind me in … Read more

I did not trust overnight oats. For years, I saw them as sad, soggy oatmeal that someone forgot to eat. Every time a friend raved … Read more

“Wait—you can eat the skin?” My sister-in-law, Claire, was staring at the half-moon slices on my cutting board like I’d just announced we were having … Read more

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me wrestling with a bag of spinach that had somehow turned into a science … Read more

I was standing in the parking lot of a grocery store I never go to last Tuesday when the smell of someone’s grill hit me … Read more

My neighbor, a retired schoolteacher named Mrs. Kowalski, watched me fumbling with a bag of instant oatmeal packets in my kitchen one Tuesday morning. She … Read more

The neighborhood cookie exchange was in 24 hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing elaborate, multi-day bakes—the kind of things that required … Read more

I did not trust overnight oats. For years, actually. The whole concept of eating cold, raw oats that had just been sitting in the fridge … Read more

My coworker Derek watched me tear open another sad granola bar at my desk around 2:30 PM, that slump hour when even coffee stops pretending … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in late September, and I was staring into the fridge like it held the secrets to the … Read more

My Super Bowl party was in about four hours and I’d completely forgotten I was supposed to bring an appetizer. Everyone else would be showing … Read more

I was standing in the produce aisle last Tuesday, staring at a bin of Honeycrisp apples, when the smell hit me — not from the … Read more

My husband took a bite of these crispy maple roasted delicata squash rings last week and just stopped mid-chew. He looked at the ring in … Read more

I grabbed the wrong flour. It was a Tuesday afternoon in late October, the kind of gray day where the light never really shows up, … Read more

I was standing in the freezer aisle of our local grocery store last Tuesday, staring at a box of frozen burritos like it held the … Read more

The neighborhood potluck was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. My phone buzzed with a reminder text from my sister-in-law, and I felt that … Read more