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A tale of two BBQ chicken salads

Hi! Remember me? I have a post titled “anxiety and being nice to myself” in my drafts right now, but the post is empty. So that’s a pretty good indication of how this past month has been going. But really, it’s going great. And sadly, that’s because this blog has taken a backseat to all the other awesome things going on…like teaching for fit4mom, and kiddo graduations, and becoming an auntie again, and, well, SO MANY things I couldn’t list them all. Needless to say, my attention has been scattered. But I’m here for now,… Read more >

Staycation weekend

It’s starting to feel like summahhhhhh! I don’t want to jinx it by writing it out, because we’ve had several rainy days recently, but we also finally broke into the triple digit temps, so I feel pretty pretty prettyyyyyy good that the weather is here to stay. Going to the splash park also makes it semi official, right? Even though both kids love school, we are all very seriously anticipating some unstructured time and all the playing and freedom that comes with it (myself included!). Remind me that I said this in a month. šŸ˜›… Read more >

Santa Barbara Memorial Day

After so much sickness and solo parenting, the four of us joined my parents and sister’s fam for a much needed vacation. We missed my youngest sissie mucho, but she is days/weeks away from having a baby so it was a little too risky for her to come. We hit a lot of traffic on the way down, which added an hour or two to our car time, but the kids didn’t care one bit because now that we have the DVD player we could drive to Maine and they’d be unaffected so long as… Read more >

Thai meatball salad

Thai meatballs! These have very few ingredients but heavenly flavors. You can serve them as a rice bowl w broccoli. Or on the side of a stir fry. Or like I did, on top of a salad. With so much lettuce from the CSA, I had tons of options for this salad. I decided to go with a mix of red and green leaf, plus mizuna and frisee. Use whatever is available to you though! For the meatballs, I used a combo of ground pork and ground beef, then I added fresh herbs, fresh ginger,… Read more >

Run Fast Cook Fast Heal Slow

You know how when you’re sick, you don’t want to think about food for a while – ESPECIALLY the food that you had before you were sick. Well, that’s been me for, uhhhh, let’s see, a month now?? Ok, not really that long, but it feels like it’s been that long. After I got the flu, I was forced to slow down for a bit, but then I was a really bad patient and after two days, figured I was well enough to get back into the swing of things. Spoiler alert: I wasn’t. So… Read more >