by Eat Naked Kitchen | Oct 1, 2015 | Lifestyle
I want to share a disturbing set of numbers with you: 5% of US food is organic. The organic industry is growing at a rate of 10-12% per year (for the non-economists like myself, this is MASSIVE growth). And yet, only 1% of US agricultural land is organic. That last...
by Eat Naked Kitchen | Sep 15, 2015 | Mains, Recipes
I have a confession: Chef James and I don’t always agree on food. We might seem all cheery and agreeable – and for the most part we are – but there are certain foods that one of us will make and the other just turns up his nose at. Yes, that pronoun...
by Eat Naked Kitchen | Aug 21, 2015 | Lifestyle
This weekend, at the 2015 Food Freedom Fest, I had the privilege of spending time with some very inspiring people: farmers who are bucking the industrial farming system in favor of using cutting edge practices that honor the natural biorhythms of the earth, the...
by Eat Naked Kitchen | Jul 30, 2015 | Lifestyle
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how my knee went out on a run, how tempting it was to just stop the run and go home, but how I worked through the issue by problem solving with my dear friend and rehabilitative fitness guru, Laura Coleman. (It’s a great post....
by Eat Naked Kitchen | Jul 21, 2015 | Lifestyle
I groan when my alarm goes off and fumble for my phone. It’s 5am. I could use another hour or two of sleep, but I have so much work to do and these are precious quiet hours while my daughter is still asleep. On autopilot I tap open my email on my phone, scrolling...
by Eat Naked Kitchen | Jun 2, 2015 | Breakfast-Savory, Mains, Recipes
When I was a kid, one of my special treat weekend breakfasts was the classic Toad in a Hole: my mom would cut a hole in a piece of bread, butter it, and then pan-fry it with an egg dropped in the middle of it. It was such a treat. This week I was craving some comfort...