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I’m Adi - an accidental yogi, trail runner, and lover of words.
I’m Adi - an accidental yogi, trail runner, and lover of words.
“In 2007, I took a solo trip further into the midwest to run the Chicago Marathon. Truth be told, running a big name race in a big name city had far less appeal to me than…”
“and this is how the curried tomato soup was born - minus the garbanzos because I wanted to save them for emergency hummus.”
“I was born over three weeks late, so I can truly say that I’ve been this way my entire life. And that’s why, halfway through the morning on this day of gratitude, I’m…”
“I’m not a sweet pumpkin spice girl, but I sure love anything that combines pumpkin, salty, and spicy - especially if that “spicy” entails copious amounts of curry.”
“I needed them to have just enough sugars to be effective, but not enough to be off-putting, be calorically dense so they wouldn’t take up a lot of space in my stomach while still giving a dose of energy, and to be more portable than a watermelon.”
“It was beige and gelatinous, somehow perfecting the art of being both boring and weird at the same time, and I…”
“A couple of years ago, a friend of mine asked me how I cooked brussels sprouts. I gave him several different ways, the quickest and dirtiest (and admittedly, most disgusting in…”
This recipe was adapted from Oh She Glows Apple Walnut Lentil Loaf. I’m a ketchup hating, spice loving kind of gal, though, so I needed a new version.
“Despite being from Alaska, I’m really a warm weather gal. Well, unless there are mountains and snow involved, but as an Oklahoma resident, I’m…”
“No more, though. Inspired by a friend’s request for something delicious for a Thanksgiving pot luck, I decided to give the gourd the respect it deserves!”
“Confession time: I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't like cake. No, not even chocolate cake, which is why…”
“I firmly believe that sour cream is a necessity in life - especially when fall rolls around and my kitchen morphs into what really amounts to…”
“At the beginning of the year, my friend decided that his strict coconut oil and nooch soaked popcorn diet probably wasn’t supplying all the nutrients necessary for an endurance athlete - or a human - and he proclaimed…”
“Who else here believes that chili knows no season? I mean, every Labor Day denotes its increased frequency in my meal rotation, but I see zero reason not to make it right smack in the middle of July.”
When I was in college, I watched Meg Ryan peel an apple from top to bottom without it breaking.
