I’m Adi - an accidental yogi, trail runner, and lover of words.
Already pulling out of the studio lot at this point, I whipped into the nearest parking lot, flung my door open, and dry heaved into the grass until a grocery store bagger came over to ask if I was okay. “I’m always okay.”
"The day my father died, I was at the grocery store buying bananas."
I had a meltdown in the Sprouts baking aisle just hours before that line caught my eye. It was Thanksgiving-ish - my mind has blurred the calendar a bit - and a box of natural
…but nothing beats that time of year when longer days, warmer weather, and beautiful, delicious heirloom tomatoes start to make an appearance.
“Saturday morning, I woke up to the sound of wild turkeys and the smell of a skunk, and I hadn’t felt that content in many, many months.”
“I have this uncle who is known for three things: giving people funny nicknames (I still look up on the rare occasion I hear the word “Smurf”), peanut butter fudge, and gumbo.”
“If I had more shame, I’d be embarrassed to tell you that for a solid three weeks, my kitchen functioned more like an experimental lab than a room I use to cook dinner, and that nearly all experiments ended up in the trash (which has prompted me to research compost bins, but more on that later).”
I didn’t know much about her as a woman in her sixties. Or fifties or forties, for that matter, because as soon as I could leave, I did.
“It felt both wrong and right, but I don’t really know what the protocol is for handling the death of someone you love but didn’t really have a relationship with.”
“I’ve done this every summer since the beginning of time, which is wildly frustrating and also leads to some of the happiest accidents - like this favorite-among-friends hemp seed tabouli. What you’re looking at here, is a bunch of farmers’ market goods living their best life.”
“Granted, I’m two years late, so I’m still very much me, but a more fashionable version of the old me - at least culinarily.”
vegan tuscan kale soup to get you through the last of the cooler days
“If you’re having a cookie emergency, though, they’ll still be pretty yummy if you skip that step.”
“So sorry, Adi, but we’re going to have to do the first two sections again. If you can think ‘very, very still,’ this should be it.” It takes nine songs to get your back imaged.
“Whatever the reason, though, I can never eat curry without thinking of him.”
“Anyway, this is another simple one to throw together, and though the ingredients list looks long and the directions even longer, the hands-on time is relatively minimal.”
“If I could Marty McFly it and go back to tell the younger version of myself to take recovery more seriously, I’d probably…”
