This is my second blog.  My first came out of a necessity to kill the boredom I would face while on bed rest with my second son.  I have always had a love of writing.  When I was told I had to stay in a bed for 3 months it came naturally to write about it.  Here I am five years later and I have come to terms that there is an inherent theme to my other blog.  Food.  more specifically, healthy comfort food.  In light of my discovery, I felt the need to separate the two, and make something more out of a new blog.  Something that could encompass my passion for healthy food and exercise.  A place that I could send someone who asks, “What do you do to be healthy?”  All of this (points to self) does not come naturally.  I had to work hard to get to where I am now, and have learned a lot to get here.

I have had a passion to cook since I was little. I craved gourmet foods that did not exist in my lower middle class suburban home.  So I made them.  Delicious, fattening creations were born out of cravings and boredom. (Can you sense that I can’t be bored).   I love creating something delicious from nothing.  To my mother’s dismay, she wold come home from work and there would be pies, cookies and home-made spaghetti sauce scattered about her once clean kitchen.  She always forgave me after tasting my latest edible experiment.  Well, until she discovered I had used her ingredients for dinner that night.  At one point she was working 2 hours away, and it was then that I was assigned to dinner duty every night.  She unknowingly unleashed a culinary dragon that has not been tamed since.

It is always a bonus if  amazingly delicious food doesn’t reside permanently on my tush.  No one should have to eat boring, bland food in an attempt to get healthy or regain health.  I was most certainly not going to. In my journey to reach my health goal I started  turning a once fat laden comfort food into a healthy, nutrient rich version.  To my surprise even my picky meat and potato eating husband would eat my makeover meals.  I have always been asked how to make my recipes, so now I have a place for my recipes to live and be seen.

This blog is going to be a living, breathing document.  I’m not sure exactly what direction it will take, but I am excited to find out.  If you have a dish you wold like see transformed, please contact me.   After all, the food we consume could be the medicine that heals us.  Oh, and please subscribe so you can receive the latest recipes and tips.  Thank you!

Rebekah