Tag: healthy

How to Chiffonade

How to Chiffonade

It’s a relaxing work-night (you convince yourself), and you’re practicing your adulting by home-cheffing a dish that includes a little green green. You’re thinking local kale or sage from the garden out back, right? Thought so. You hipster. But it seems you have reached an 

Mexican Street Corn Recipe (Vegan)

Mexican Street Corn Recipe (Vegan)

Do y’all love corn as much as I do? Corn right off the cob transports me to summer, every time. You know my favorite way to eat corn? Mexican street corn style – sweet corn on the cob covered in creamy saucy goodness with the 

Vegan Cheese & Cream Cheese Recipe

Vegan Cheese & Cream Cheese Recipe

I’ve done Whole30 enough to know that cheese is BY FAR the food group I miss most (… and bread. And ice cream. And sweetness in my coffee. But mostly cheese… ). *Stares into the distance and thinks about cheese*

Making Your First Raised-Bed: Garden Tour

Making Your First Raised-Bed: Garden Tour

Round 2: Let’s Get Down to the Nitty Gritty (In 1950s male announcer voice, spoken far too quickly for modern American intelligibility) Previously on The Journey of the Thumb… Austin commits involuntary plantslaughter. Wildlife witnesses prosecute. SeedEaters (aka birds & squirrels & bugs, oh sigh) 

How Do Other Milks Compare to Breastmilk, Nutritionally?

How Do Other Milks Compare to Breastmilk, Nutritionally?

Nutrition For Your Kiddo You want the absolute best possible nutrition for your little one. I know the feeling. I’m a certified nutritionist and self-proclaimed foodie and I STILL have no idea where to find good resources, especially when it comes to mammalian milk and 

Herby Pesto & Pasta Recipe

Herby Pesto & Pasta Recipe

I’m not a marinara sauce girl. I know, I know. “It’s classic.” “How do you love pizza and pasta but NOT red sauce?” There are a few exceptions, but for the most part, I would choose an alfredo, olive oil and spices or pesto sauce 

How to Make Your First Outdoor Raised-Bed Garden

How to Make Your First Outdoor Raised-Bed Garden

The Journey of the Thumb Ever been accused of having a “black thumb“? Likely it was unintelligibly uttered under granny’s breath to your progenitress (your mom) at the last backyard family luncheon you hosted. Allow me to elaborate. It’s when you wholeheartedly attempt grow photosynthetic