Appleseed Cuisine

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My name is Kelly.  I am a veggie-lover in Chicagoland. I spend my time reading, learning, sharing, and connecting with like-minded soul searchers. I am always knitting something. I practice movement everyday. Quietly finding gratitude and love along the way.

I believe that you know what feels best for your body.
I respect your decision to eat whatever you choose.
This is a comfortable place to explore recipes that may be new to you.
Appleseed Cuisine is a project to share ideas & inspiration for making meals that any type of eater can enjoy.

I love sharing food with people.  I’ve been working in restaurants and around food for as long as I can remember.  My first job was filleting fish at a seafood counter.  Most recently, I worked at two different raw vegan restaurants and was inspired to keep creating new recipes of my own.

I started making food for friends at work to try.  I invited family and friends over for dinner to try my latest creations.  I bring juice and lunches to my yoga instructors and fellow yogis.  There is something magical to me about watching someone taste something they would never consider making, and loving it.

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I shared a lunch with the owner of a yoga business who invited me to come prepare all the meals for a whole weekend retreat centered around local, organic veggies.  It went so well, and the feedback was so positive, I wanted to continue creating and sharing.  I’m starting this blog to keep finding new meals that inspire me and you.

This blog is a way for me to continue sharing.

I’ve gone through a wonderful process of discovering what works well with my body and what doesn’t.

aboutsun-1I began my food journey around 2006.  After being diagnosed with “adult onset asthma” and having multiple digestive issues, both for several years, I finally found some answers in reading about how food could be affecting my body.  I previously held a very compartmentalized and limited belief system where food = gaining weight or losing weight, medicine = healthy or not healthy, and exercise = muscles or no muscles, and didn’t think my mental state and self-talk could be involved in any of this.

I never considered how all of these things could be related, could overlap, or might have anything to do with each other.  After shifting my diet pretty radically from a standard American diet to whole foods plant-based and changing my mental image of “health,” I’ve experienced many positive changes in my health, body, and mind.  This is a blog about my personal experiences with food and not intended to treat any illness or disease.

 I believe in lifting people up and supporting each other in our own personal decisions.

Many people I love in my life choose to eat very differently than I do.
I love them and support them just the same.

I wish joy, peace, health, and happiness for you.  I’m grateful you are here reading this and sharing a love of food with me.  Thank you for showing up.

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