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A Quick Note

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:10:00 +0000

A quick note to say that things may look a bit different here when you visit in the next couple of days. I am in the process of moving to Wordpress.

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Collard Greens with Tahini

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:05:00 +0000

While this dish may not scream Thanksgiving, it has the richness of creamed spinach, with a sweet-savory-tangy flavor profile that gives the dish a nice complexity and is perfect for a festive...

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Art Journal Playshop, November Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:39:00 +0000

So, clearly, I am loving these art journal workshops/playshops led by Kimberly Wilson, considering this is the third one I have gone to this year (January and July recaps). Here is Kimberly...

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The Possibility that Comes with the End of Daylight Savings Time

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:57:00 +0000

I know – I have posts on healthy holidays, Shophouse, lunchbox updates and a few product reviews brewing- but instead, here I am chatting about the end of DST. Can we say could.not.come.soon.enough....

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Moop Comes to Washington, DC

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:12:00 +0000

Last Friday, I had the super exciting opportunity to attend a Moop pop-up shop hosted by Hemphill in Washington, DC. To say I am a Moop fan is an understatement – I have loved the beautiful...

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Weekly Recap, Two Weeks Worth & Halloween Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:08:00 +0000

I am determined to not have another weekly recap which is actually three weeks’ worth – so even though this week is half over, here is a recap for last week and the week before. Let’s start with the...

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Horchata & Pumpkin Pie “Milk” Shake - Adopting Debi of Hunter’s Lyonesse

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:30:00 +0000

Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger, an event created by Sea of Book of Yum and hosted this month by Lauren from As Good As Gluten, snuck up on me more than usual. I adopted Debi of Hunter’s Lyonesse and had...

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Spiced Quinoa

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:51:00 +0000

Happy Monday and Happy Halloween… in the spirit of quick recipes and behind-the-scenes lunchbox-ing (no, I am still not sure what to do about that series… ahem) I wanted to talk about using my rice...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} An Update

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:09:00 +0000

Happy Sunday! As regular readers may have picked up, the lunchbox series has unofficially gone on a bit of a hiatus for a few… many reasons. Some of it is the bad light in the morning...

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Take Back Your Health

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:20:00 +0000

Last weekend I attended the inaugural Take Back Your Health conference, an event organized by Robin Shirley and Ryan McGrath designed to be an educational platform about different alternatives and...

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Rustic Cranberry Pumpkin Spice Biscotti

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:39:00 +0000

Happy Monday! Have a biscotti. When I still ate gluten, biscotti were one of my absolute favorite things ever. I liked them crunchy and small and would eat them with chai lattes, or slightly...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} New Obsession

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:16:00 +0000

This was this past Thursday’s lunchbox – you can see it has a kale salad and some of the components from lunchboxes earlier in the week (grey hummus, curry-spiced quinoa, leftover squash). The...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Can we say grey is purple?

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:15:00 +0000

Yes, I know, there are grey blobs dollops in my lunch. Mauve grey dollops, so maybe purple? Purple dollops sounds marginally better than grey blobs. Those dollops/blobs are hummus...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Merry Tuesdays

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:28:00 +0000

Happy Sunday! I am slowly but surely catching up on my lunchbox posts for this week. I have an idea for how to change things up with the lunchbox series but first, here is this past...

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Weekly Recap, Three Weeks’ Worth, A Birthday and Cupcakes

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:59:00 +0000

So yes, I fell off the weekly recap phase – that said, I tend to write my weekly recaps as much for my own recollection as for you all, so I decided to do a mega recap of three weeks’...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} A Sunday Lunchbox on A Monday

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:17:00 +0000

Happy Monday – I did not bring a lunchbox to work today, so I thought I would share instead a Sunday lunchbox from a few weeks’ back, which included kale topped with curried quinoa (I think I finally...

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On Birthdays and Types and Movement

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:09:00 +0000

It was my birthday last week. I celebrated my 33rd birthday, a birthday which I anticipated with a lot of trepidation. I know aging is something I should embrace gracefully, but I don’t. ...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Reinvention

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:28:00 +0000

After two lunchboxes of Speedy Butternut Squash and Black Bean Salad and Masoor Dal, I needed a change this week, so I did the following: Blended up the Masoor Dal with additional...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Redux

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:15:00 +0000

I ended up not eating the crackers in this lunchbox, so this lunchbox is very similar to the one from the previous day: Speedy Butternut Squash and Black Bean Salad Masoor Dal Living Spoonful...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} New and Old Favorites

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:10:00 +0000

This lunchbox includes a couple of new favorites and some long-standing ones: Speedy Butternut Squash and Black Bean Salad Masoor Dal Living Spoonful crackers, leftover from my September trip Raw...

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Speedy Butternut Squash & Black Bean Salad

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:23:00 +0000

I love roasting squash, usually with cumin, but the downside is that it takes a long time. On Monday night, when I got home on the early end, I also wanted to eat dinner on the early end. ...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} You Know It’s Friday

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:23:00 +0000

I always know when it is Friday, usually because by then I am out of lunchbox materials and relying on the last of the leftovers. Above is a lunchbox from a couple of Fridays ago: Comforting...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Return of A Favorite

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:50:00 +0000

I have been experimenting with kelp noodles in my lunchboxes off and on – I am still debating when to dress them – i.e. the night before, the morning of, or right before eating. Right now, I...

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{Today’s Lunchbox} Tofu Scramble and Greens

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:03:00 +0000

So somehow, I sort of went on lunchbox hiatus – right after finishing up the Brown-Bag Challenge too (see here for my lessons learned). I usually catch up on posting my lunchboxes for the week...

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Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger: Katie of Nourishing Flourishing

noreply@blogger.com (Valerie @ City|Life|Eats) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:13:00 +0000

A friend recently asked me the benefit of cooking based on recipes found on blogs rather than cookbooks – don’t get me wrong, I still use plenty of cookbooks, but I like the connection of cooking...

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