“The mangos are coming!” he screamed at me excitedly. “He” was the cashier at the register at my local liquor store in DC where I was living at the time. Not a place I’d expect to see mangos while picking up a cheap bottle of swill. And there were in fact no mangos in sight.
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I’ve realized that one of the hardest things for people when trying to eat healthier is all of the cooking that comes along with it. Even if you love to cook, it can still be daunting to learn a new way to cook and come up with things to eat all of the time.
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Has anything been more photographed than avocado on bread? I’m pretty sure not. But yet, I still love it. When I was younger, pear (what Jamaicans call avocado) on bread isn’t something that I would have ever thought would be having a moment.
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As I mentioned a few days ago, I’m moving over posts from my old Holy Sip site to this page. This post is from December 2018. I’ve recently decided to pursue a holistic health coach certification…
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The Jerusalema remix by Master KG and Burna Boy has become my kitchen anthem this week.I don’t know or understand the words but that hasn’t stopped me from bopping around the kitchen and singing loudly…
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Maybe it was COVID, maybe it wasn’t. I’m still not sure what had me feeling sick for the past few weeks. The symptoms lined up, but the test was negative. Either way, I knew it was time to load up myself with healing foods…
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One of the things that I immediately notice after I give into my body’s craving for sugar (and other things I don’t eat all the time) is how blah I feel. Not just physically, but vibrationally…emotionally.
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“It’s kinda like charcuterie,” I said to my friend Morgan. “A nice little cheese spread.” She looked at my orange fingers as I dipped my hand back in the bag to grab some more Cheetos and laughed.
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I remember when I thought that this would last two weeks and then everything would go back to normal. Eight weeks later, I’ve slowly accepted that normal as we know it is gone. Most disheartening to me is what the restaurant…
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Almost everything in my life is done in a minimal way. That includes my pantry. This is also easy because I live alone. I imagine that if I had kids I’d have had to consider keeping a stocked pantry long before COVID showed up.
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I’ve finally finished the Hummus! documentary. The first half was better than the second, but I was still able to eke out some thoughts.
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How do you pronounce hummus? If you read that and dragged out the “humm”, followed by a quick ‘us’, like me, you’re saying it wrong.
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