I grew up with a tradition of Sunday suppers. No matter what the week held or how busy the weekend my mom always prepared something a little extra special to end the week around the table together. Oh, and there was always dessert! This past Sunday I was ready to spend a day puttering around…
Simple Supper Prescription
It has been longer than I can remember since I posted a recipe. I could say life has been busy with travel and running and well life and that is true. Particularly during the spring and summer as I ramped up the miles for my birthday 100 at High Lonesome. There were weeks where dinner…
Quick & Easy Pantry Comfort Food: Snow Day Coconut Chickpea Curry
WELL almost all from the pantry. This also included most of a box of sad past it’s prime salad spinach. Do you have one of those? Or maybe it’s kale, any dark leafy green can be friends with this curry. Rob and I fit in a trip to Hong Kong right after our winter camp…
Roasted Squash and Lentils
This recipe has been sitting half finished for awhile but this description of how thing s have been of late still holds true. At times life seems to be relentless and if I’m honest a little brutal. In moments like this I often fall into what I call “subsistence eating”. I fall out of love…
Sauce of the summer: Fresh Tomatillo
This blender concoction takes only a few minutes and tastes delicious. With two productive tomatillo plants this summer Rob and I ate a lot of it. Of course it’s right at home atop tacos – tempeh, cauliflower, mushroom, it made the rounds this summer. However it is good for so much more. Want to gussy…
End of Summer: Garden Clean Out Bread Salad
It’s been a busy summer. Trying to max out traveling while working the busy time of year at our local community college has left me pretty exhausted. Dinners when we have been home have been utilitarian to say the least. Without the garden and a pantry that approaches preparation for the apocalypse, I’m not sure…
Race Ready Rice Balls
This certainly isn’t an original idea. Half the world has been “fueling” on rice for generations. However it was definitely new to me back in 2015 when I got the chance to run the Ultra Trail Mount Fuji. I have a bit of a tricky stomach on race day. It’s not as bad as some…
Tagine Tuesday- Cauliflower & Chickpea Tagine with berbere
Maybe it’s because Rob gave me a gorgeous red tagine for my birthday, or because the flavor profiles of these dishes are so versatile and go well with a variety of veggies. Or perhaps I just plain love these spices, but whatever the reason I have been making a bunch of riffs on this classic…
Crispy Kale & Quinoa Bowl with Kimchi
We just wrapped up our second winter camp and it was full of laughter, great weather, and of course great runs. I was so glad to share the Kahtoola Uphill with folks again. It is such a unique event, uphill races are definitely becoming more popular, but it still is a new experience for most…
What is a Recipe? – “I don’t feel like cooking loaded sweet potato”
So what is a recipe really? After cooking for camp and traveling to visit family, I found myself in a bit of slump in motivation to create culinary masterpieces in the kitchen. I did however still want to eat simple food that tastes great. In the same vein as earlier posts this year highlighting quick…
Super Powered Crispy Treats
Just in time for those Halloween cravings – and spooky headlamp runs as the days get shorter – I give you super-powered crispy treats. This fall with multiple invites I contemplated finally checking off the R2R2R. That’s right folks while I have had hours of joyful suffer-fests in the Canyon I have never done this…
Antioxidant Bowl
Summer is flying by before my eyes. Even though the days are long sometimes my time in the kitchen is short. This recipe may use a few too many pots to be truly simple but it is quick to put together if the veggies and grains are cooked ahead of time. Everything of course is…
Collards Are The Next Kale!
This dish is maybe more appropriate for a colder season, but we are in the middle of the monsoons here and on a rainy night it was just about perfect. I am gearing up to run Run Rabbit Run this September and have been ramping up my running accordingly. Despite my appetite slowing over the…
Summer Noodle Salad with Peanut Sauce
We are back in Flagstaff after an amazing trip that literally circumnavigated the globe, with 2 weeks in Australia and a week in Norway. I ate some amazing food, relaxed, and soaked in the experience. It was great to see Rob racing again both at Ultra-Trail Australia and Lofoten Ultra-Trail, and I feel so lucky…
Utilitarian Green Pasta
I can’t remember the last time I posted a recipe. I could give all sorts of reasons – a change in career, traveling etc. After spending over a decade working in education I have shifted gears to work with Rob and spend more time organizing and facilitating the camps we love so much. I also…
feeding the frenzy 