Carrie Saum

Bio

Carrie is an author, recipe creator, food lover, and feels super pumped about connecting people in her online community,www.ourstabletable.com. With a great sense of humor, warmth, and vulnerability, Carrie brings genuine reality to the Internet, along with tasty food and slightly inappropriate jokes. After receiving her paramedic medical training, Carrie spent a decade abroad and in the U.S. in the non-profit medical sector, before venturing into the world of Ayurveda and integrated health in 2011.Carrie uses her skills mostly for good these days, and helps clients from all over the world meet their health goals. She loves spending time around the table with her young son, partner, family, and friends. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Carrie Saum Articles

Make-Ahead Breakfast Porridge Recipe

Breakfast is my most favorite meal to eat and least favorite to prepare.

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Recipe: Curried Delicata Squash & Quinoa Bowl

Fall is in the air and now come the comfort food cravings. This curried delicata squash and quinoa bowl with hit all the right spots!

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Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Mash Recipe!

Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Mash Recipe! 

What do you do when you're provided with a bunch of winter squash? You make soup. You make veggie bowls. You make coconut curry butternut squash mash!

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My son and I can’t get enough of them. Image: Our Stable Table.

#RavsRecipes: Salted Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

This is becoming an expensive habit, but nothing really says “I love you” like homemade cookies, so I’m going with it.

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Latkes for the win!

#RavsRecipes: BAE Sweet Potato Latkes

I can’t promise this will cure everything that ails you, but it’s a good start to a new year if nothing else.

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#RavsRecipes: Snickerdoodle Cloud Cookies

No real measuring, no special ingredients, and it makes cookies that even the snobbiest cookie connoisseur will crave? It might seem too good to be true, but it's absolutely real.

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Not only was TV working as part of my parenting routine, we also unashamedly used it as a babysitter.

Plot Twist: Watching TV Makes Us A Better Family​

Not only was TV working as part of my parenting routine, we also unashamedly used it as a babysitter. Yes, you read that correctly!

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You are every bit as engaging, worthy, and likable on your own.

What To Do When You Don't Know How To Be Alone

In an age where we are isolated but still technologically connected, this is important. It’s okay to be alone. It’s okay to be unoccupied.

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Bless the Greek.

#RavsRecipes: Mad Mediterranean Bites

Once upon a time, I went to Greece. Then I went to a tiny island and didn’t tell anyone. And then I ate a lot of amazing Greek food, hung out with the Australian water polo team who had just competed in the Olympics, and drank Heineken all day from a can.

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Absolute deliciousness.

#RavsRecipes: Creamy Tomato Basil Soup With Parmesan Crisps

Lately, we have been struggling to feed ourselves good, healthful meals.

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