Ujjayi breathing in my back yard. About a month ago, I woke up with a dry couching spasm and felt an inexplicable heaviness, as if there were a steel weight inside me, dragging me down. I subsequently had some difficulty breathing, in what felt like an asthma attack from days of yore, [...]
@2020 by Loolwa Khazzoom. All rights reserved. My boyfriend and I recently went for a hike in a local park, only to be confronted by a barricaded parking lot, with the words, “Park Closed.” Dismayed yet not daunted, we continued driving down the perimeter of the park, until we came across an [...]
My cooking is like my music: There is always a story behind it. So as part of sharing the recipe for this soup, I'm going to share what led up to its creation. I was very upset early this morning - to the point that I ended up convulsing in sobs, hunched over the kitchen [...]
I have gotten several requests for recipes of dishes pictured in one of my previous posts, and pictured here again, above each recipe. I don’t actually do “recipes” per se - i just more or less chop, slice, and throw into a pot or bowl. But I have included a list of ingredients below, to [...]
Most people know me as an Iraqi Jew. So they would corner me at the local synagogue, asking - in a tone that was part-conspiring and part-patronizing (because food was all Iraqi Jews were good for) – what I ate for dinner growing up. “Stouffers,” I’d reply, simultaneously disappointing and confusing them. What they didn’t [...]
This soup is packed with organic veggies, Adzuki beans, and spices. Yum! I have self-healed from asthma, insomnia, chronic pain, and numerous other chronic health issues, and I have stopped the growth of cancer, through self-care strategies that I have developed over the years - through personal experimentation (my body and life are [...]
