Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
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Hello! I'm a 30 year old mama of two, married to my absolute best friend, living in California. I've been in love with food as long as I can remember and came to a vegan diet after struggling to cope with my rheumatoid arthritis for years. I was able to heal myself with fresh, raw, fruits and vegetables modifying my lifestyle to have less stress: through yoga, meditation, and simplifying my..
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
1y ago
Hello there. It’s been so long, but I wanted to pop on here to share that I’ve moved my writing over to substack, where I’ll be writing posts at least weekly sharing recipes + more. I’ve just published a post over there for peperonata to use up those last peppers of the year, and a post on the ways we are transitioning into autumn in our home. I’d love to see you over there. Thank you for all your sweet support over the years, its meant the world. Click the photo below to be taken to the post or click here for my substack.
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Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
Cooler weather is settling in here, bringing a pleasantly crisp edge to mornings and nights, enough to pull a cozy sweater on, enough to enjoy steaming pots of tea again. I mentioned in the farmer’s market post that we have been steadily slipping back into a good routine, which has meant busier days. I find myself reaching for the dutch oven and slow cooker often during the week to support us with healthy, nourishing food through these fuller days. I imagine lots of you are in the same boat, whether it’s with work, school, this that or the other. We all need a few good quick or hands-off reci ..read more
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
Hello again, thank you so much for all your lovely messages of congratulations and well wishes on my pregnancy, we are thrilled and it’s lovely to feel your love + support, too. I am feeling well and so ready to meet this tiny human in about five weeks. It seems like an eternity that I have been pregnant, and yet also like a blink of an eye- school will be starting up again in just a little over a month. Time plays such tricks in our minds. Meanwhile, summer marches on here, the heat is insistent and has a searing, fiendish intensity. My garden is reliably soldiering on, but it’s painfully ob ..read more
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
It’s coming up on a year since I’ve written in this space, I didn’t mean to be away so long, but here we are. Thank you to everyone who sent me an email asking after me, truly, I appreciate your well wishes and check-ins. Everything is fine here, we have weathered some ups and downs this past year as I’m sure many of you have as well. We experienced death and loss in a proximity I have been privileged not to experience before. Grief is something murky, slippery in the way you can’t always see it, yet it smothers normalcy with a suffocating insistence. As Joan Didion says so well, “…when we mo ..read more
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
As we hurtled back down the freeway towards home, pine trees swooping by the windows in broad streaks of brown and green, the sky grew progressively more sickly, a dully colored gray-brown laid down in thicker and thicker layers as we descended in elevation and inched closer to the valley called home. The smoke settled in great sheets over the sky and everything else, blotting out the sun, shrouding the landscape and filling me with an unsettling feeling of dread. It-the smoke and my dread- only intensified as our phones, coming back into signal for the first time in a week, shrilly dinged wi ..read more
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
Summer calls for very simple meals- the produce is fresh and usually needs little more than slicing, arranging and salting. Sliced tomatoes with minced shallot and basil, chilled sliced cantaloupe with olive oil and salt, steamed green beans from the garden, simple galettes with whatever fresh fruit is around…less time in the kitchen, more time outside. Lately one of the things coming out of our garden in spades is zucchini. Although there is lots, we happily eat them all, and their flowers, too. I never understood all the jokes about having too many zucchini in the garden, you know the ones ..read more
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
We have been sinking into these quiet, lazy days of summer. It has been hot, which means I fling all the windows open early in the morning, go out to do any gardening and harvesting work, then come in and close the windows to keep the house cool the rest of the day. Our days are mainly filled with reading, swimming and cooking, with the odd outing to outside places- we went a berry farm to pick marionberries and blueberries last week, and sometimes venture to the creek, or on a hike. We are missing and mourning seeing friends and family in the usual ways we are used to, but are grateful for e ..read more
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
image via the Washington Post
Normally on the weekends I try to write a fun little post, this week, where I talk about the little things I’ve been enjoying during the week. Well friends, there’s nothing fun or little about this week. Instead, I’d like to start a much deeper conversation about something bringing me the opposite of joy this week.
The suffering and pain black Americans have endured in this country for generations has been thrust into stark, unflinching definition this week. People are angry, heartbroken, devastated at the continued racial injustice, lack of transparency and acco ..read more
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
The weather has warmed here significantly, and, with the days stretching deliciously longer, I look forward to my summer garden. In the summer, the garden is heavily abundant, and even with our smallish space we end up growing a huge portion of our food needs. Over the years, I’ve tried lots and lots of different varieties of vegetables and I feel I’ve finally settled on my personal favorites. I thought it might be nice to share them here if you are also planting your summer garden. Something to keep in mind is that the varieties that work in my garden (zone 9b) so well won’t always work in y ..read more
Mama eats plants – trash free, plant based lifestyle
3y ago
Happy weekend! Summer is almost ready to blow in here, the last stragglers of wildflowers bravely standing against the golden bleached hills, our swimsuits pulled out from the recesses of drawers, popsicles made and savoured in the sun, the rays so brightly golden it makes your eyes shut hard. A bit of salty sweat stings on your upper lip and makes you dream of the ocean. Here’s a little of what I’ve been enjoying this week.
Beauty // Soothe salve. I recently ran out of a homemade balm a friend had made me, and decided to order the soothe salve from a lady I am always inspired by on IG, @absk ..read more