Cookie and Vegan and Gluten Free….Oat My! How was I ever to make a cookie that was Vegan AND Gluten Free that was worthy of the extra 2 miles I had to run in order to fill my vessel with all its sugary goodness? Well first of all for those that don’t know me….. I…
It’s Just FALL-ing Out of Me
Is it the swarms of love bugs that signify the cool weather is coming? Who named them that anyways? They are the most unlovely thing that i have been obsessively vacuuming from every crevice of our house for the past week. Or maybe the sign of fall came from the early release of the Halloween…
I’m In a Curry and Don’t Know Why
So sometimes I talk to my food, sometimes I talk about my food, sometimes other people talk about my food, but sometimes my food talks to ME! The curry meatballs were being created in my frontal lobe with all my taste receptors on the side lines dancing. I couldn’t tell you where I was driving…
The Apple of My Pie
The universe had sent me yet another sign…placed it on a durable plastic white dish…pushed it in my face and said LOOK at me! We locked into each other’s connection at that exact moment in time when everything else fades into a pixelated background. When the only thing that was in focus was right in…
Un-murdered Chicken Taco
No chickens were murdered in this dish, but my boys murdered those tacos. So, thanks to my quest to develop more VEGAN options at PACKED and to my herbivore friends who have given me some great tips, I have had the pleasure of working with soy curls. If you have never heard of these its…
Sunday Morning
1st cup of coffee…eyes quarter moon. 2nd cup of coffee….eyes half moon. 3rd cup of coffee….eyes full moon. Pancakes wafting in the air with drips of maple and smokes of bacon. Cartoons flashing. 1st pancake….eyes full moon. 2nd pancake….eyes half moon. 3rd pancake….nap. Let’s give a coffee cup or glass of milk toast to the…
The Spotted Banana
I spotted a banana and the banana was spotted. I love bananas and I love eating them right when they come out of their green stage. But once that tiniest brown freckle appears I’m out. And by out I mean that I am not going to partake in eating it in its’ straight up form…
All the Little Cups
Cups. Cups have been a part of dining since, well, all of time. The cups that I filled today, in the “Let Me See Your Tuna Bowl” dish, did not have handles, nor were they adorned with fancy floral decorations or made of the finest china. However, as I worked to make sure each cup…
Egg Rolling In The Beef
Minus 16 days ago I walked out of the PACKED kitchen loaded down with yet another bag full of left over ingredients to bring home to my “chopped” kitchen. One of the key ingredients in abundance was broccoli slaw. Now I will be honest if someone were to lay out a palette of veggies I…
I Did It All for the Cookie….and my Vegan Friends
Alright so if you have been privileged enough to be in Louisiana during the months of January through March then you may have had this same indulgent food experience that I have. There is this fantastic grocery store that rhymes with Mouses that makes a cookie butter king cake. Here we are mid July and…
PACKED 