Kale soup

Here's to a winter filled with healthy comfort foods. First up, this wonderfully savory kale soup with white beans and potatoes.

A touch of the English condiment Marmite adds an extra layer of savoriness to this stew, but in a pinch, you can leave it out.

Healthy comfort food

Happy New Year, friends! Hope you all enjoyed the last few days of 2016 with your friends and family. We continued what's become our little tradition of hosting good friends for a low-key New Year's Eve overnight with lots of catching up, playing and eating and a good New Year's Day hike.

This year we've added a legit table tennis situation, air hockey and (ahem!) a Wii U to the mix, which definitely didn't detract from the fun we would've had together anyway. As usual not all of us stayed up until midnight, but this time all the kids did.

A time for self-care

I really look forward to this time of year, when there's momentum in the air, both for professional productivity and for being good to ourselves. I'm excited to eat lots of dinners like this one: deeply delicious, super-healthy comfort food. And I'm equally excited to share lots and lots of these recipes with you.

For January and February, I'll be sharing two recipes and one travel post per week, with some bonus interiors and fitness posts sprinkled into the mix. As always, I'd truly love to hear from you about pretty much everything, including what you'd like to see more of on Umami Girl this year.