Combining the sweetness and herbal benefits of rose to your favorite campground treat

I’ve been mistaken as a vegetarian or vegan for years, and while I have no problem with someone partaking in these lifestyles, it didn’t feel good within my body. I was vegan for almost a year and at first, I felt great until I didn’t. Around the year mark, I was always bloated and was craving […]

Have you ever had a skillet cookie? There was a restaurant close to Elon University in North Carolina, where I spent my first two years of college, called Casa Roble that had a dessert of a hot chocolate chip cookie baked in a small cast iron pan served with melting vanilla ice cream. Basically everyone’s […]

Happy Easter! To be honest, I was raised more spiritually than within organized religion so my Easter holidays growing up were about the Easter bunny and egg hunts. When I was really young, we dyed eggs in all of the colors until those eggs turned to plastic + were filled with chocolate or money with […]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! As someone who Irish Step danced throughout high school, I miss this day of dancing + merriment often. Someone I also think about on this day is my “little sister,” who I met during those dancing years when I was the rehearsal captain of our company and she was our youngest […]

This is one of my favorite winter dishes that’s requested multiple times a season by my boyfriend. Full of beans, vegetables and meats, it’s truly a “use what you have” dish that’s a warm hug on a cold night… and up here in the northeast, we’ve had more cold nights lately. Coming from the word, […]

Carrots have become my MVV – most valuable vegetable – this winter. They can be bought in bulk, are inexpensive and also can be made and used in a variety of preparation from soups to stews, juices or in cakes or simply roasted like here. I love their slight sweetness in contrast to the other […]

Being in the hospitality industry, my boyfriend + I are typically working on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. It’s a marathon working about 24 hours within 29, but it’s something that we know is going to happen and the team makes it a lot of fun to be there together. This year due […]

Good morning, sunshine! ☀️ I don’t know about you but I’ve been in a slump after the holidays. I decorated, cooked. I saw a couple of friends carefully to still make the holidays feel celebratory, and now I just want a little more ease. (Anyone still coming down from the last eclipse and full moon […]