Healthy Recipes

The first time I made these pomegranate glazed roasted carrots, I was trying to impress someone. Not a date or a dinner party guest, but … Read more

I met Maria at the community garden on a Tuesday morning in late September. She was tending to a patch of sugar pumpkins while I … Read more

I did not trust sweet potatoes in chili. Honestly, it sounded like someone trying too hard to make a healthy meal feel fancy, and I … Read more

Grabbing a sheet pan out of the oven with one hand while trying to shoo a cat off the counter with the other—that’s how this … Read more

I was standing in the grocery store aisle last Tuesday, staring at a jar of peanut butter like it held the answers to the universe. … Read more

I figured roasting squash meant soft, mushy cubes. It took about one bite of these crispy-edged, caramelized rings for that assumption to fall apart completely. … Read more

I figured overnight oats were basically cold oatmeal—soggy, sad, and something you eat because you’re trying to be healthy. It took about three mornings of … Read more

There used to be a tiny bakery on the corner of 5th and Maple—The Little Whisk—that made the most incredible pumpkin oatmeal muffins. When they … Read more

My neighbor Sarah wasn’t trying to impress me. I’d stopped by to return her hedge clippers—a favor from a week ago that I’d honestly been … Read more

“You really just… rolled peanut butter into a ball and called it lunch?” My sister was standing in my kitchen doorway, gym bag still slung … Read more