This delicious soup was influenced by what was lying around (of course), this great primer on bulgar, and my recent reading of Mark Bittman’s Food Matters. Permit me a small soapbox for each one.
1) What lies around. In the last week, I purchased several bits of produce for which I had no specific use. At [...]

I generally avoid hauling out my mixer on a weekday morning.  We have toast and fruit or oatmeal, pancakes a couple times a month if I don’t have a morning meeting.  But what’s a girl supposed to do with some softening bananas sitting on the counter?  Just throw them away, you say?! Never.  The Leftoverist [...]

By now, you know I’m not shy or private.  I have friends who are, I love them, and sometimes think it would serve me to shut up and divulge less.  Too late for that.  But even divulgent extroverts tend to keep their cards close when it comes to money.  I talked in this post about [...]

On Friday night, Yancey was at the station and I opened up the fridge to see what could be thrown together.  My inventory:

Cold rice
Leftover quinoa collard salad from my cooking class
half a ziploc bag of shredded cabbage from my cooking class
2 small zucchinis
1/2 yellow pepper
carrots
a few sugar snap peas leftover from our Farmer’s Market picnic [...]

If you were to look at my calendar, half the week is open, with meetings and appointments here and there.  I’m an organizational development consultant with not much work right now and a GREAT childcare arrangement (Mary) which I’m not messing with, work or no work.  The other half is marked KID DAYS  in giant capital [...]