I know a lot of people believe that green tea is magical. The arguments for its numerous health benefits are pretty convincing – preventing and fighting cancer, decreasing cholesterol, reducing the risk of heart disease, clearing up skin, and fighting obesity? Sounds pretty good. So what do you do when you have a packet of… [click for recipe and more]
There are quite a few things about college that are a little hazy for me, 10 years later (ouch). I could blame it on the passage of time, or on the intense focus I gave my studies at the expense of all socializing and memory-making, but that just wouldn’t be true. That haze is the… [click for recipe and more]
Before I say anything about these cupcakes, before I tell you how to make them, before I go on and on about just how delicious they are (and oh, they are delicious), I’m going to hand out one piece of preemptive advice: these are best eaten on a treadmill. I’m not one to wax poetic… [click for recipe and more]
The movement I started in my last post continues. I am still occupying winter. So far my success has been limited – the temperature dropped yesterday from a balmy 68 to a more seasonable (but still not seasonable enough) 55 degrees, and the mercury is set to plummet all the way down to 52 today.… [click for recipe and more]
Look, I like spring. Who doesn’t? New life in the air, the bitter chill of winter replaced by the still-crisp promise of coming warmth, the hardiest of crocuses fighting their way up through the solid remnants of the last frost…that’s all well and good, but here’s my problem: IT’S NOT SPRING. Today is the first… [click for recipe and more]