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Creamy, chunky taro makes one of my favorite wintertime soups, and with just 2 ingredients, plus some herbs, it’s hard to believe such a simple, vegetarian, and fat free soup could taste so rich, almost meaty… Is that weird to say coming from a vegetarian?? It’s all due to the…

I purchased a bag of locally grown cacao powder on a recent trip to the Dominican Republic. Cacao is cocoa in its raw form. It’s less refined and retains many nutrients because it isn’t heated like cocoa. I brought this cake to a pizza party, and nobody could tell it…

When I went white water rafting a few weeks ago, my friend Kumi and I discovered a chestnut tree by the dock. We went nuts collecting them. Chestnuts come in prickly round shells with porcupine spines. My job was to stomp on them with my hiking boots to break them…

Hi! I have some more Iceland photos for you, this time of the capital and a Golden Circle day trip, plus a new post in the works dedicated entirely to waterfalls, coming soon. A few of you asked about my favorite food places in Iceland, so even though I don’t…

Fall is here! And all the fall flavors are in these muffins. Baking them smells absolutely amazing. Plus, these maple syrup sweetened apple babies are not only gluten-free and whole grain, but super moist and tender at that. I packed these for a white-water rafting trip and they were awesome.…

I didn’t know the sky could be so big. Nothing clutters the landscape on the road to the glaciers along the southern coast of Iceland. Only moss and volcanic mountains, a thin line of Aspen trees, the ever shifting clouds and the arctic sun cracking through. The ice caps are…