Earlier this month, Yoga Journal published an article called “The Future of Yoga: 39 Teachers, Only 1 Way to Go.” To say I enjoyed it would be an understatement. Literally right after reading it, I read the entire thing again. I felt a rumble in my belly and a pressure in my heart that is hard to ...
Hippie-dippy potatoes and greens
Hippie food is easy to spot. Basically, if you see something with sunflower seeds, tahini, or coconut oil in it, it's probably hippie food. Which is to say it will be super delicious, abundantly nutritious, and maybe a little weird. I am a triple Aquarius with three planets in the 12th house. If ...
Sweet and spicy snack mix
When you think of snack mix you likely think of Chex Mix or Gardetto's—at least that's the first thing to come to my mind. This snack mix has little in common with either of those, which made me wonder if it was sort of a flight of fancy on my part. After eating a plant-based diet for a certain ...
Cream of mushroom soup
This soup isn't actually cream of mushroom, because there's not a sniff of dairy in it. But if I called it cashews and mushroom soup that would sound weird and gross, plus it tastes just like traditional cream of mushroom soup—only better!—so that's what we're going with. Not only is this soup ...
Grilled vegetable pasta sauce
This grilled veggie pasta sauce is waiting to become your new summer staple. It highlights the very best of summer produce—zucchini, tomatoes, and basil—and will freeze well into the colder months when you want something light or are craving the taste of summer. Because the flavors of zucchini ...
From my soapbox: Get your boobs out of my yoga
You’ve seen ‘em all over Instagram…pictures of long-haired, sun-kissed, (typically) white women in bikinis doing impressive looking yoga postures somewhere beautiful—beach, mountain, mod urban apartment. Often, the photo is captioned with some kind of mantra, yoga quote or Rumi poetry, or a New Age ...
From my soapbox: Vegan Torture
Since creating my Instagram feed, @eatlikeayogi, I see a lot of vegan-related posts. This has generally been useful because I have learned a lot, and the sense of community—even among people I have never met—feels supportive. The variety of vegan posts includes lots of food pictures—some of which ...
Super veggie sandwich pockets
You may not have heard of a sandwich pocket, but I guarantee you've had one. Every culture I can think of has found a way to enclose food in some kind of edible wrapper. Mexican burritos are to a French crepe what Polish pierogis are to Spain's empanadas. Make Asian cuisines feature spring rolls or ...
Succotash with fava beans
Remember hot lunch in grade school, and how every week this assortment of vegetables—corn, carrots and lima beans—would appear on the plate? I had no idea until about two years ago that weird little mixture has a weird little name: succotash. I have a feeling succotash was served so often because ...
Harissa cashew s’dip
"I don't know what to call this harissa cashew sauce-dip stuff," I said to my husband quizzically. My five-year-old son, who has uncanny hearing when he wants to, replied immediately, "Why don't you call it s'dip?" This is his thing lately—combining two words to make a new word. In this ...