Whole grain millet bars

Today we had a big, tiring brick workout, and all I wanted to do afterward was take a nap. Instead, I made these experimental millet bars. Because experimenting with millet bars is fun, of course, and because that’s what you do for a friend like Jen, who buys you a beckoning coffee shop bar she knows you’ll love and writes down the listed ingredients–since you’ll without doubt be itching to try to...

This Week: Dress Better

Naturally, this post’s heading  begs to be fashion related. Anyone who knows me,  knows better, yet  probably wishes my focus would be fashion-related for a change. Last week, I got to enjoy surprise compliments on an outfit I did indeed pick out myself. Who cares that the sort-of-capri-pants were actually Chinese pajamas I got sometime in high school? My best clothes, though, are always gifts or hand-me-downs,...

Simply Banana (or Chocolate Banana) Ice Dream

Want in on a (probably not wildly known), magical, delicious–and healthy–secret? Seriously, this is one of the purest, finest, and easiest, examples of kitchen alchemy I’ve ever had the stunning fortune to stumble upon. OK, enough already: bananas make superb ice cream. That’s all you need, plus a blender or food processor, that is. Regale your gluten, dairy, egg, and granulated sugar free friends with...

This Week: the Salad Challenge

I’ve been becoming a  little like the stooped, weary man from the old Dunkin’ Donuts commercials…slumping down the stairs in the pitch dark, mumbling “time to make the doughnuts” half-zombiefied. Only my murmurings are more along the lines of, “time to make the yogurt…and the veggie stock…and the chicken stock…and the granola…and the lotion…and the...

“Trash Soup”/aka simple homemade veget...

Know how sometimes perfectly legitimate words or names just give you the giggles? If you’re a Daily Show fan, you’ll know it’s so with John Stewart, in respect to a certain Republican presidential candidate’s surname. Such is the case, too, for two friends who shall presently remain nameless, in case they’d prefer it that way, and the name “Poudre” (as in Canyon). And I’m...

DIY Lotion: only 3-5 ingredients!

In the unlikely case you’ve been wondering, I’ve been knee-deep in the To Do List lately, and items like blog posting had to be pushed way down on the priority ladder by default. More importantly, real rest/sleep crucially needed to find a way to surface at the top or everything else would be rendered pointless and/or shoddy. Thus, the slightly extended cyber silence.  In other words, I’m arriving at a...