Savvy Eats

In October 2011, I wrote about the best way to store bread.  It is one of the few Brain Food 101 posts I’ve written based on food science & theory, rather than personal experimentation. In that post, I concluded that sandwich bread should be stored in a paper bag and eaten within a few days. [...]

A few weeks after I started taking anti-gravity Pilates, my instructor Josh told us we were going to add something new to our routine: swinging, or “swooshing.” We stood with the hammocks in front of us, resting right at the hip crease, and walked forward until the hammock was tense.  Then we rose on to [...]

When I made beef pot pie a few weeks ago, Dan took the leftovers to work for lunch.  He came home that afternoon and proclaimed, “If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be pot pie.”  I had bookmarked a pot pie recipe from the February issue of [...]

Originally, I was going to tell you the story of my early morning gym trips.  How I get up, get dressed, drink some water and eat a little something.  How I haven’t found the right little something to snack on pre-gym, something that’s quick to prepare and eat.  Something that is simultaneously filling enough to [...]

I recently took inventory of my chest freezer and the shelves where we keep my canned goods.  As it turns out, we haven’t been eating nearly enough fruit preserves.  Or I made way too many.  Or a combination of the two.  Because I’m pretty sure we aren’t going to eat 15 half-pint jars of strawberry [...]

2013 has been a rough year so far.  One filled with doctor’s appointments and medical procedures, as we try to figure out why I feel so sick all the time. One with anxious waiting for test results and calls from doctors and next steps. New medicines that do nothing but give me terrible insomnia, and [...]

I made blood orange marmalade with a new-to-me recipe last weekend.  I was getting over a cold, and didn’t want to spend ages painstakingly removing the pith and membranes, so I chose a method that looked simpler and a lot faster. Either my blood oranges had less pectin than usual, or this method just doesn’t [...]

Most weeks, I sit down on Saturday or Sunday to come up with the following week’s menu.  I look through  my list of recipe ideas and everything I’ve bookmarked or Pinned.  I consider what’s in season and what main ingredients we haven’t used recently.  Usually, I’ve exhausted my fresh produce stores from the week before [...]