Crispy Roasted Chickpeas

These are incredible – the best snack ever! Fresh out of the oven they are crisp and perfectly salty and spicy. After a few hours when they cool, they’re delightfully chewy and can be used as a snack or in salads.

This (hot!) spice mixture is a classic, and I’ve also made them with Hidden Valley ranch powder (no judgements), and even buffalo sauce. You can’t go wrong, no matter the combination!

You’ll want to make a double batch if you want to keep them around for longer than about an hour. They’re addictive!

Vegetarian Sushi Bowl

I had a lot of weird eating habits as a kid. My sisters fondly (meanly – come on, sisters) called me “carb face” for many years, and my grandma said that her favorite outfit and my eating habits had a lot of similarities (all beige).

Most notably, and disgusting to people, was my Subway sandwich order. I would get a footlong (hey, I was an active kid!) with extra white American cheese, black olives, and mayo. That’s it. Then I’d apply cheddar Sun Chips directly to my sandwich and cronch! I don’t want to eat that anymore, but I still love me some carbs.

Another fave was at Flat Top Grill, one of those DIY stiryfry assembly restaurants where you picked out all your ingredients and then they cook them for you (with Indian roti, if you asked for it – yum!!), where while I was waiting for my bowl to cook I’d get plain brown rice, raw edamame, and soy sauce. This recipe hearkens back to that, with a few more veggies, and a slightly enhanced dipping sauce.

Nam tok beans

I went on an amazing trip to Southeast Asia a couple years ago – my boyfriend and I visited Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. We ate some absolutely incredible food along the way, but to be honest, my absolute favorite Thai dish I’ve ever had is at a restaurant called Kin Khao in San Francisco. It’s inspired by a beef salad we weren’t able to try in Thailand, because it unfortunately and irrevocably contained beef, so we knew we had to find a way to recreate this magic at home. When we made it we actually tried frying beans (our apartment smelled like oil for about a week after), but found we liked it with roasted edamame more – which is great since it’s healthier and easier too! It’s tangy, healthy, and can be adapted in a million different ways.

Greek Salad Jars

Greek salads have pretty much every food I love – tons of veggies, all the olives and pickled things, lemon juice, and of course: cheeeeeese! This is the best work lunchyou’ll ever have, plus all your coworkers will be jealous!

Top 5 Running Accessories

Running is kind of the best. It gets a bad rap for being boring, but it’s indisputably an amazing form of cardio and requires no equipment. You can fit it in anytime and anywhere you have 30 minutes, and then be done with your exercise for the day!

Even though running doesn’t explicitly require any equipment, there are a few accessories that can make it more bearable, and even fun if you can forget about the whole exercise/being healthy/destroying the cartilage in your knees thing. Here are my top 5:

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