My Aunt Susan is super amazing and supportive. She just got back from vacation in Morocco. While she was there she was sending pics of her food and things she was learning for my inspiration. Lucky for me she is also the queen of gifts. So she very thoughtfully and selflessly brought back some of [...]
A delicious meatless Monday dinner - seitan stuffed butternut squash. The butternut squash this summer has been unreal. I've been eating butternut squash from HEB, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, etc. for years and they have never tasted like this.
Today, too much of the food we eat is produced for consistency and yield, not health and flavor. I'm reading two very interesting books right now; Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and The Third Plate by Dan Barber. Both have been incredibly thought provoking in the way I think about how we got to this industrialized food world.
Ok folks, the moment you have been waiting for. My first recipe post! It's summer time in Texas and everyone is selling eggplant! This week at the farmers markets and farm stands, I picked up some from B5 Farms and Boggy Creek Farms. I've been making a ton of grilled eggplant, eggplant tacos, eggplant in my [...]
I challenge you to go to a local farmers market, try some of the food the farmers and vendors are selling and not have an intense desire to buy some.
Have you seen What the Health? The documentary was good, but it has been getting a bit of heat as "vegan propaganda" and after watching it I'll admit, I wasn't sure what to think. If you haven't seen it, they basically claim that eating animal protein will kill you. Whether it be from heart disease, [...]
Every time I open up Twitter I want to crawl in to a hole. The Donald's tweets are repulsive. But what can I do? How does one 25 year old guy make a dent in the destruction? I, like many others, felt that the day Donald shocked the world by winning the US election the [...]
Hey! Welcome to my new blog. While I'm not entirely sure what this will morph into, my first post will be about why I'm doing this. In my life I have always been drawn to companies that are making a social impact. And while I currently speak with my wallet in terms of where and [...]
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