I just lost my job. Their loss, I tell myself. Onward and upward. Until the next thing comes along, I’ve got plenty of time to reinvigorate my cooking. While I have grand plans about poring over my cookbook collection, pulling out recipes I always meant to try but didn’t have the time or energy to…

New Year’s Eve dinner includes leek and potato soup with white beans, wilted arugula salad, and tomato herb pizza bread with a hibiscus orange juice sparkler (no alcohol).

Picked this up at Powell’s yesterday solely on the strength of its Tumblr @thetacocleanse – it may end up being my New Year’s resolution.

Christmas rainbow Ethiopian veggie platter with all homemade yums

Traditional Christmas brunch in the Cannon house: vegan sticky buns, pineapple, vegan Italian sausage, coffee. Yum. Happy Holidays!

Carrot cake pancakes with walnuts, topped with Kite Hill cream cheese and maple syrup

Baby kale and mushrooms, roasted tempeh cubes, hash browns, sliced tomatoes, coffee

Pumpkin parfait leftovers – oh my goddddd so good

Leftover hack: chopped up seitan with pesto stuffing sauteed with chard and leftover cranberry beans, plus toasted leftover gnocchi.

Thanksgiving 2015: My food photography skills need work

The food was good. Maybe too many carbs, but we were super excited about making pasta. And bread. And gnocchi. So it just kind of happened. I did my best to surround all that with vegetables. Whatever, it’s the holidays, we’re not usually so indulgent! My mom did all the bread, the pasta, and the…