Healthy Recipes

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

My seven-year-old nephew asked why I couldn’t just roll the sandwich up instead of cutting it. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work—then stopped. … Read more

I was standing in the checkout line at the hardware store—of all places—when the woman behind me started talking about fruit kabobs. She was probably … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple, boring lunch. Honestly, I had a rotisserie chicken sitting in the fridge, some sad-looking grapes that were one … Read more

I was standing in the kitchen of a tiny apartment I’d just moved into, staring at a half-empty jar of peanut butter and a bag … Read more