The planet needs all the help it can get right now, including me constantly looking up "how to cook bacon in the oven."
That's right — Ecosia is a search engine that uses its ad revenue to plant trees around the world.
I first heard about it, I was like "Hmmm, I want to... but how will this affect my interneting?"
It won't, really. It's a Chrome and Firefox extension and it just works automatically when one uses one's search bar like one normally would. It feels 99% the same as your normal googling experience, but it's not actually Google.
Ecosia's current project is focused on re-greening the edge of the Sahara in Burkina Faso. These trees act like a buffer to help prevent the desert from expanding faster and overtaking fertile land.
Learn more and try it out here.
Photo from my trip to Vatnajökull National Park in Southern Iceland (which is sort of ironic because there are very few trees in Iceland — it'll just be an inside joke between you and me)
The baby is now a toddler?! I now deeply understand how time acts differently the minute you become a parent. It’s all relative to this little creature who is growing way too fast.
Since we’re currently stuck at home during the pandemic and exactly zero people have asked me about skin care, I thought it was a good time to share some of my favorite pieces of sheet to put on my face.
When I say “you” here, I mean “me.” This is how anxiety is helping us with spring cleaning this year.
I’ve been a sorry excuse for a half-Indian woman because I just started making dal for the first time in my many years on this earth. I’ve eaten a lot of dal, but it’s just not something I’ve ever tried to cook until this year.
"This is you, in a recipe!"
That's what my friend Lauren said when I told her about this idea to infuse the most old-school Minnesotan of recipes (hotdish, i.e. casserole) with Indian flavors. And she's right.
It me.
I don’t want to hype this recipe up too much, but you’re going to wanna make it… like, today. And tomorrow. And the next day for three meals a day forever and ever.
I’d like to talk about the Trader Joe’s Cauliflower Gnocchi. Yes, THE cauliflower gnocchi.
This unleavened, naturally gluten-free chickpea bread is one of my favorite things to make for myself (socca for one!) and for having people over because it’s sort of impressive and no one else has to know that it’s basically only one ingredient.