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Happy 2nd Birthday, Harmonious Belly!

beets, glorious beets

Well, turns out I totally spaced on Harmonious Belly’s second birthday! It was February 8. A lot has happened in this past year – a layoff sprurring on lots of writing, preserving, and food experimentation. My garden was awesome this past year (no blight, hooray!). And a little guy entered my life (I love you, Linus) and captured my heart, while my beloved girl passed on (RIP Marina).

I developed collaborations with entities like the Queens Swap, the Queens Harvest Food Co-op, the Traditional Community Kitchen, and the Vanderbilt Republic, among others. And I was interviewed and featured in various places around the intertubes.

So happy birthday, little blog! Here’s to many more collaborations, learning more, nurturing old friendships and creating new ones, and lots of delicious food! Paid work would be nice, too, universe. 🙂

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HB HB! Happy Birthday Harmonious Belly!

A year ago today I published my first post, with the hope and intent to use this space to keep myself on the straight and narrow with my eating and overall health, and learn something along the way.  I feel pretty successful in those endeavors.

Happy first birthday, little blog!  Here’s to another year of real food and good eatin’.

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I Took a Little Break

So last week I was a little lax with the posting.  It was my birthday on Friday, and I had a bunch of plans with friends, so I ended up being offline from Friday afternoon through the weekend.  It was a nice break, and a little odd not turning on the computer, but I think it’s important to unplug from the laptop a bit for a few days from time to time.

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to reconnect with old friends, as well as with some newer friends, and that made the weekend really special.  So good to be with the people you care about, and who care about you.

As far as what I ate… well, I admit that overindulged in the rich, sweet food category a bit, but hey – it was my birthday!  But on the bright side, what I ate was made with quality ingredients.  I had some cake from a local bakery that uses real food – butter, eggs, cream; none of this shortening or veg oil business.  And I did make a peach sorbet from my CSA peaches, which came out great. Had a few cups of fair trade coffee and tea.  Sharing it all with friends made it even better.

So now I’m back on my favored eating path, and expect to feel amazing over the next couple of weeks!  I’ll have some recipes, a garden update, and another CSA report this week.  Stay tuned!