Healthy Recipes

Maggie wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by her place on a Tuesday evening to pick up a book she’d borrowed, and the smell … Read more

My brother asked why I couldn’t just bake the whole breakfast casserole in a muffin tin. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work — … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store on a rainy Tuesday afternoon—honestly, just trying to grab a new lightbulb—when the woman behind me, … Read more

A friend asked me why I couldn’t just throw some oats, yogurt, and berries in a jar the night before and call it breakfast. I … Read more

My neighbor, a retired Greek woman named Eleni, watched me fumbling with a bunch of sad-looking dill at the farmers market last July. She didn’t … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in July, and I was starving for something that didn’t exist in my fridge. You know that … Read more

There used to be a tiny, sun-faded health food store on the corner of Elm and 4th that made these unbelievable peanut butter protein balls. … Read more

I was standing in my kitchen last Tuesday, staring into the fridge at a bunch of bananas that had gone from yellow to what I … Read more

The woman at the farmers’ market watched me stare at her display of butternut squash for a solid minute. I was trying to remember if … Read more

My neighbor, Mrs. Gable, wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a lug wrench—my car had made a terrible noise on the … Read more