Last week, I had the pleasure of hanging out at this super innovative fish farm and research facility for a half-day. Well, it would have been more of a pleasure had it not smelled like fish… and had I not been four months pregnant. But I’ve gotten really good at not breathing through my nose these days, so … Continue reading →
Category Food, Food writing, Organic, Politics of Food, Pregnancy, Spring recipes, Uncategorized · Tagged with can I eat fish during pregnancy?, carbs, farmed salmon, fish, fish and mercury, fish during pregnancy, fish farms, pregnancy cravings, pregnancy food rules, sustainable fish farms
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on February 11, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The winter Olympics are in full swing, which means there is no time to cook. No point in trying, really. We’ve got the whole shebang — figure skating, cross-country skiing (my new favorite), snowboarding, you name it — filling up our DVR, waiting for us every night. Although I can fast forward through commercials, I tend … Continue reading →
Category Fall recipes, Food, Good eats, Organic, Uncategorized, Winter recipes · Tagged with beef, beef shoulder, bottom round, clay pot recipes, cooking in pots, crockpot, easy cooking, lazy cooking, Olympics, pot roast, pot roast recipe, Romertopf, rump roast, sochi 2014, top round, weeknight dinners, winter olympics
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on January 6, 2014 · 1 Comment
I’ve been doing a lot of blending lately. It’s the time of year to take healthy things and make them palatable enough that maybe, just maybe, you’ll keep eating them past January 31st. And if the breakfast smoothie weren’t the best idea ever invented in that category, then I don’t know what is (wait, are … Continue reading →
Category Breakfast recipes, Fall recipes, Fitness, Food, Good eats, Organic, Recipes, Winter recipes · Tagged with breakfast smoothies, drink your vitamins, ginger, green smoothies, health benefits of turmeric, healthy roots, new year health, new year resolutions, smoothies, turmeric, veggie and fruit smoothies, veggie smoothies, vitamin
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on August 11, 2013 · 9 Comments
We’ve taken the leap… We brewed tea. But not just any tea. Tea that has since been sitting in a 2-gallon jar with a SCOBY, fermenting into a glorious beverage called kombucha. While I’ve known about kombucha for a while and relied on its probiotic benefits after returning from overseas trips, the drink was new … Continue reading →
Category Fall recipes, Fitness, Food, Organic, Recipes, Uncategorized · Tagged with barefoot bucha, capitol kombucha, ethan zuckerman, fermentation, healthy bacteria, kombucha, mto kombucha, SCOBY
You know, working from home as a food, etc. journalist can be a conflict of interest. In theory, I have the flexibility to take my time mid-morning at the Wednesday farmers market, perusing, chatting, “researching,” if you will. I have conducted interviews for stories while getting my groceries, but I’ve also gotten carried away and … Continue reading →
Category Breakfast recipes, Fall recipes, Food, Food writing, Good eats, Organic, Recipes, Sense of place, Spring recipes · Tagged with ag writing, busy week, Chesapeake Bay Journal, easy recipes, environment writing, farmers markets, hash recipe, healthy lunch, Mount Vernon, National Spelling Bee, Recipes, Scripps Bee, vegetable medley, vegetables
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on May 10, 2013 · 6 Comments
It began with a little basil. Last spring, I planted some in a window box on the side of our house. The side that apparently got more bugs than sun. It had a good run, providing me plenty to sprinkle into my scrambled eggs, but not quite enough for the giant batch of pesto I … Continue reading →
Category Farming/Ag, Food, Food shopping, Good eats, Old Town Alexandria, Organic, Sense of place, Spring recipes · Tagged with Barefoot Contessa, basil, cilantro, eat local, farmers markets, herbs, Local Living, mint, Nora Pouillon, Old Town Alexandria, parsley, Potted herbs, rosemary, sage, spring planting, thyme, wannabe farmer, Washington Post
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on March 22, 2013 · 1 Comment
We first discovered the gloriousness that is spaghetti squash in a CSA farm box a few years back. I cut it in half (which is no small feat), scooped out the seeds and roasted the halves face down with olive oil until they were soft (what I’d been instructed to do with any mysterious squash). … Continue reading →
Category Fitness, Food, Good eats, Organic, Recipes, Winter recipes · Tagged with egg roll substitute, Eggplant, eggplant rolls, pasta substitute, spaghetti squash, spaghetti squash pasta, spring recipes, spring vegetables, weeknight dinners, winter vegetables
When I first met with Caesar Layton for a story about Relay Foods, a Charlottesville-based online grocery store and farmers market that recently expanded into DC and Baltimore, I didn’t quite get the convenience factor. I mean, I am one of those people who drives to three or four different stores and markets each week. I … Continue reading →
Category Food, Food policy, Food shopping, Food writing, Good eats, Good reads, Organic · Tagged with Alexandria, amFog, Arganica, Caesar Layton, charlottesville, DC grocery stores, Down Branch Farm Produce, ElevationDC, farmers markets, food writing, local farmers, local food, Online grocery shopping, Polyface Farms, quail eggs, relay foods, Virginia quail eggs
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on February 14, 2013 · 2 Comments
For three days, my Instagram feed, typically resplendent with photos of meat-centric entrees, turned very green. My husband and I — to help kick off his I-rolled-my-ankle-now-back-to-the-gym “diet” — decided to try just veggies and fruits for a few days. Originally, we thought we might last a week. We didn’t do a lot of research, … Continue reading →
Category Fitness, Food, Good eats, Organic, Recipes, Uncategorized · Tagged with Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, fruit smoothies, green juice, healthy carbs, Juicing, juicing recipes, micronutrients, morning snacks, vegetable fast, veggie smoothies, working out
Posted by Whitney K. Pipkin on January 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This recipe comes to you all the way from Nashville, from a longtime family friend named Ava Parker whom we had the pleasure of staying with on our roadtrip to Kansas for the holidays. I remember Ava cooking a lot when her daughter Jenny and I were BFFs in grade school, but it was fun to connect with … Continue reading →
Category Fall recipes, Food, Food shopping, Good eats, Organic, Recipes, Sense of place · Tagged with chili recipe, chili with bacon, chili with cinnamon, guest post, Nashville, Old friends, road trip food, soup recipes, winter recipes