Writing
Recipes, and everything else.
Seven years of recipes, notes, and working things out. Some of it is older than my certification and reads that way.
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Understanding Your Labs Without Spiraling
How reference ranges are built, what they can tell you, and why a result can come back normal while you are not well. The email arrives. You open the app, or the PDF. Something…
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When You’re Too Tired to Keep Deciding What’s for Dinner
A simpler way to feed people well when your brain is already full. Sometimes I feel that deciding what’s for dinner every day is a ridiculous use of human intelligence. I do not think…
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Borrow My Brain
Why I started building the tools I wished already existed. A month after I finished my nutrition certification, I attended an online conference for nutrition business owners. Four children make travel and airfare for…
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Proper Malted Breakfast Muffins
I loved Malt-O-Meal muffins as a kid. Not just eating them but making them. By six years old I could follow the box instructions on my own, perched on a step stool like a…
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Fall-Apart Beef Shank (Dutch Oven + Instant Pot Option)
I’ve made this beef shank regularly of late. It’s one of those meals that feels slightly ambitious, yet requires very little from you once it’s in the oven. Bone-in shank is collagen-rich and deeply…
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Why Coffee Works for Some People (and Immune Herbs Don’t)
There was a season of my life where I was taking a lot of herbs. Not recklessly. Intentionally. Thoughtfully. But still… a lot. I was navigating autoimmune issues, trying to support my immune system…
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Why Your Friend Can Live on Energy Drinks and You Can’t
On MTHFR, COMT, and Building a Resilient Terrain I have a habit of reading food labels like I’m trying to crack some hidden code. To be fair, modern nutrition and ingredient labels do contain…
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When Ashwagandha Backfires (And Why That Doesn’t Mean It’s a Bad Herb)
Last summer we went camping. Four kids. Smoke drifting through the trees. Spotty sleep. Electrolytes in the bag because I wasn’t going to lean full zero water filter without replenishing. You know, the restorative…
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Instant Pot Chicken Soup (The Staple I Somehow Never Posted)
For someone who has run a food blog for the better part of eight years, it’s borderline ridiculous that I’ve never written down my chicken soup. Probably because it’s not fancy. It’s just what…