The beginning of my recipe blog.

Let me start by saying that never in a million years did I think I would start blogging about food and recipes. With that being said...

Welcome to my recipe blog!

Seriously, I never thought I’d do this, but it has been on my mind for the past few months, and I have decided to give it a shot. I think it is a bit crazy of me to start this, considering I have also started Shop Ethically and have a few other side projects I’m working on, but that’s the beauty of freelance. I have time–very limited unless strategically organized time–but time nonetheless.

I’m starting this blog for a few reasons:

1. Let food be the medicine and medicine be thy food.
As someone who has struggled with my health off and on for the majority of my life, if there is one thing I have learned, it is that my body is incredibly sensitive to food. But, rather than calling my body sensitive, I’d prefer to say that my body does well with the things it should do well on, that is, healthy and natural food. Without getting into too much detail, I’ll simply say this: food has healed my body while medicine I have developed allergies to. I really do believe that food can be our medicine, and medicine should be our food.

2. Eating right should be easy.
But gosh, it hasn’t always felt this way. Eating has been easy, but eating well has not, and I want to change that. I love food, and I love cooking, but hobbies, work, play, and life usually take the place of cooking, when they shouldn’t. Eating is what keeps me alive, and I want what I eat to be a bigger priority in my life. To get me motivated, why not combine everything I love to do (taking photos, writing and eating) into one. Basically, I want to take beautiful photos of the things I cook and eat, in order to feel inspired to cook more. Viola, my recipe blog, and suddenly eating right is easy (or at least pretty).

3. I want to save the world.
You might be wondering what a recipe blog has to do with saving the world. It’s actually quite simple: what we eat impacts not only our personal health, but the health of others, the health of animals, and the health of our planet. I don’t like strict labels, but I guess you could call me a vegetarian who tries hard to be vegan most days. Unfortunately, vegetarianism and veganism have received a bad reputation, but hear me out: the meat industry contributes more greenhouse gasses than all of our vehicles do on the road. That’s not cool, because I really like earth, and I want our earth to keep living. I also don’t believe in harming or killing animals. I think our culture has become desensitized to violence and cruelty against animals, and I’m not okay with that. Lastly, people often tell me I’m not getting a well-balanced diet (or enough protein), but there are countless studies that show a plant-based diet is the healthiest one there is, and that you can get enough protein from a plant-based diet. By eating vegetarian, I believe I am saving the world. This blog will have vegetarian and vegan recipes, so you can save the world, too.

Mostly, this is a place for me to write about my food journey, and help inspire those to cook delicious and easy recipes.