Happiest 20212!

I’m ecstatic to announce a new year’s present to the Feeding the Soil community. Thirteen of us compiled an entire year’s worth of delicious, healthy, fast, vegetarian recipes in a convenient, user-friendly, meal plan format: Meals for a Year.

What the resource includes:

• An introduction that explains the guidelines we used to select the recipes
• Bios of the women who painstakingly selected the recipes
• A meal plan for each month of the year that includes 20 recipes
• Shopping lists for each week that are organized a) by recipes (in case you want to make only one or two of the recipes) and b) by section of the

From Martha Stewart, of course

Please accept my apologies for being obsessed with sugar this week. Last year while pregnant, my no-sugar stance was really hard on me during the holidays. This year, I’m free, free, free! (Well, not really in terms of the weight I want to lose, but at least now I can moderately indulge.)

For the past couple years, I’ve gone to friends’ house for Thanksgiving dinner. Last year, a woman made the most delicious maple pear cheesecake. I can’t really attest to its deliciousness, but people were seriously swooning over it (and not just in that I’m-trying-to-be-polite-by-telling-you-this-is-good way).

So this year, I’m all about making

I was flipping through the most recent issue of Better Homes & Gardens, and I came upon an image of a glass jar full of marshmallows. Yes! I need exactly that kind of jar in my kitchen, too.

Since I was pregnant last year at this time and limiting my refined sugar intake, I didn’t drink a single cup of hot chocolate. This year is going to be different!

Two years ago, I made these marshmallows from scratch, but I vowed never to use gelatin again. I’m a vegetarian and shouldn’t be using gelatin in the first place, but the smell of plain gelatin plus water was exactly