the single grrrl's guide to eating alone

how much is one serving of vegetables?

I was reading a nutrition article in the New York Times the other day, and it made the same...

There’s an Indian-spiced winter squash dish that’s heavy in my rotation right now, and it’s making...

Squash season means squash-seed season! Roasting seeds of almost any squash is one of my favorite...

One of the fun new kitchen toys I got myself at the end of last year had been on my back burner...

This is a test.

Rule zero: There are no rules beyond those of physics: If you heat it too much, it will burn....

Herbes de Provence is a classic cooking blend from, as the name suggests, the Provence region in...

Does this vegetable make you joyous to the point of defending your territory to enable eating it?...

There are some store-bought things that just annoy me — they're expensive, they're full of crappy...

I know we're often fed up about all the food rules — eat this, don't eat that, only eat that in...

Baby, it's hot outside… Here are a few more ways you can use your freezer to help beat the heat....

Just before the once-in-a-thousand-years heatwave hit the Pacific Northwest, I wrote about beating...

For the past couple of weeks I’ve had a song from the musical, Oklahoma!, stuck in my mind. It’s a...

Are superfoods a thing? I spent a sunny Sunday morning going down the rabbit hole of...

Portlanders are a pretty food-savvy bunch. We know what to ask about the provenance of our...

I’ve loved popcorn since I was a small child. Maybe it was the association with movies (the...

Food is medicine. You’ve heard me say that a lot.This week I got a new book that takes the concept...

My med-school bestie is starting her first(ish) garden this year. She’s mostly growing veggies in...