Tara Rasmus

I have such love/hate relationship with meal planning. I know that it’s the best way to reduce food waste, manage grocery spending, minimize stress at dinnertime…which are all good things. BUT, I am a food lover for whom variety and (at least some!) spontaneity are the spice of life. Rigidly planning out meals and assigning […]

Target Sunglasses These sunglasses remind me of the Le Specs Air Heart sunglasses that all of the influencers have…but they’re $15. Y’all can keep your expensive sunnies; I’ll be buying the ones that my kids can throw across the room without giving me a heart attack, haha. I’ve been wearing these a ton this summer, […]

While making a bit of an effort to eat a bit more healthfully lately—nothing crazy, just more fruits and veggies and fewer empty carbs—I’ve rediscovered chia seed pudding. Remember that weird tapioca-like thing that was super trendy for a hot second? Before acai bowls, overnight oats, etc…there was chia seed pudding. Truth be told, I’m […]

I actually had to search my blog to make sure that I hadn’t already posted this recipe, as I’ve been making it for years, and it’s truly one of the best damn things I make. As soon as I realized that it wasn’t on here, I got to work with typing it up. (Literally, in […]

Hey hello hi!! It’s been a good few years, but I’m so excited to be back to personal blogging! I’ve felt like I haven’t had the time or energy for much personal writing over the past couple of years, but I’m finally feeling like I’m emerging from a postpartum/pandemic/life fog with some renewed creativity and […]

This is inspired by a random recipe that I pinned on Pinterest ages ago. I bought portobello mushrooms over the weekend to add to fajitas and forgot about them, so I decided to finally try this recipe to use them up! When I pinned the recipe, I kind of assumed that it would be a […]

I am very lucky in that I didn’t even become aware of my weight until somewhere around college. Meaning that my body just so happened to fit societal standards during my childhood and adolescence; I was naturally tall and thin. I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted—actually, during middle and high school when I […]

Adapted from Ina Garten’s recipe For some reason, I feel like people think of risotto as being this difficult dish that they’d never attempt at home—and honestly, I kind of get it. The recipe that I based this one on is pretty damn complicated and involves dirtying way too many dishes (sorry Ina, I love […]