Healthyish

No, David, “I made your pasta” is not a pickup line. 

More specifically, what you did during it?

When my cooking became mind-numbingly boring, I turned to the experts for help. 

Healthyish editor Amanda Shapiro and BA contributor Hawa Hassan talk about living alone and coming together.

Quarantining with a husband who can cook is no sacrifice, but what I wouldn’t give to sit at a restaurant in Chinatown, slurping up a giant bowl of noodles all by myself.

Swapping traditional ingredients like guanciale and pancetta for vegetable-based umami bombs (hello, garlic and smoked paprika) isn’t the only thing to consider when making a vegetarian carbonara. Many hard cheeses (including Parmigiano-Reggiano) use animal rennet, so if you want to seek an alternative, ask your cheesemonger.

You don’t need a reason to dress up and have dinner tonight.

Ordering an organic mushroom kit was the best decision I've made since I started self-quarantining.

Senior food editor Andy Baraghani will be answering your questions about solo living all month long. 

I felt truly joyful for the first time in weeks.

We've got you covered from breakfast to dessert, and everything in between.

We're living every day like it's Earth Day.

5Rhythms doesn't care that I can't tell my right from my left. It's an open invitation to do whatever my body wants to do.

I never thought a veg broth could live up to a chicken one—I was wrong.

This recipe gives off major chicken-soup vibes but is entirely vegetarian—and you don’t have to simmer vegetables or cheese rinds for hours to get there. The lightning-fast broth gets its flavor from caramelized miso and nutritional yeast (a trick we picked up from Bay Area cookbook author and food writer Andrea Nguyen). The gluten-free dumplings are soft on the outside and pleasantly chewy on the inside. 

At its height, my mom's San Francisco bakery was producing 10,000 cannabis brownies every month.  

Clocks are melting Salvador Dali-style, but I'm taking an actual lunch break. 

Christina Chaey has spent the past decade honing her solo-cooking rules.

Shop your pantry before the supermarket.

I’ve been trying to bring softness to my daily life wherever possible.

You could eat these lunches al desko, but they really deserve your full attention.

Cookies, cakes, and crumbles for daaays.

There’s chicken stock to bolster the immune system, lattes to increase circulation, and calming rose-petal toast spread thick with cultured butter. 

Because smoothies are the quickest, easiest way to get in your fruits and veggies.