Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Heather! I’m a 26 year old single gal living in Clarksville, TN with my cat Tiger. I’m a CAT scan technologist at the local hospital by day (well, unless I’m on night shifts) and a self-proclaimed home chef by night!
I just recently got to a point in my life where I don’t have a million and one things going on at once. I finally sat down one day and decided it was time to see what I enjoy in life and do more of it. It didn’t take me long after stumbling across my first food/healthy living blog to see that food is definitely my passion. I started trying out a couple of recipes I found on the blogs and the next thing I knew wheels were turning and I had all these incredible food creations. I wanted to start a blog to be able to log these creations and share them with others.
I think of myself as a clean-eating cook. I like to use fresh ingredients and try to stay away from over-processed foods, refined sugars, and salt. It really is amazing how well food can taste with the right spice combinations…you don’t even think to add salt (or sugar depending on the dish). I’m definitely not a picky eater which makes experimenting in the kitchen even more of an adventure. I will try anything once!
I don’t really believe in labeling yourself by the food that you eat. I really don’t eat a lot of meat, but I also don’t intentionally leave it out of my diet. Some weeks I eat mostly veggies and grains and some weeks I eat chicken…just because I can! 
I hope to help inspire people to prepare fresh and healthy meals. I strongly believe in the adage “you are what you eat.” Hope you like what you see and well, if you don’t…you can kiss my broccoli!
welcome to bloggin’! i love clean eating so i cant wait to see what you cook up and post
Thank you! I was a little nervous about starting a blog, but just decided to quit worrying and just go for it! Thanks for reading Janetha!
great perspective! I love the way your enjoy clean healthy eating.
Cheers,
LC
Hey, Heather small world, I live in Knoxville. Hello fellow Tennesseean! Nice blog, looking forward to reading more!
Hello! So glad you found me! Funny, I actually had some family living in Knoxville till last summer when they moved closer to us. I love it there tho…and so close to the mountains!
I found your blog through bloglovin and really enjoy it! I’m from Knoxville too :] Small world!
I’m really bad at cooking/coming up with recipe ideas so I look forward to using some of your recipes in the future! I also try to stay away from processed foods and am trying to cut out sugars.
Awesome! So glad you found me! Maybe I can get your wheels turning!
haha I love you motto girl!
Hey!
Thanks for the comment on my blog!
Wordpress may cause me to pull out my hair; but hopefully we can figure it out together!
your blog looks great
Micah
Just found your blog. Love the name!
Welcome to the blogworld!
Thank you! I’ve heard about you from HEAB! Nice to “meet” you!
I totally agree — you are what you eat. I too strive to eat “clean.” It is SO cool to “meet” others out there with the same goals!!
Nice to “meet” you! Feel free to drop by anytime!!
LOVE your blog! Glad I found it!!!
Thank you! Hope you keep coming back!
That is a funny motto! I’m with ya and know how stressful hospitals can be!
Found your blog. Great to “meet” you
Will definitely be subscribing
Very nice to “meet” you as well! Welcome, I hope you like what you see!
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Hi! Just found your blog! I too believe that with the right spices, you can create a beautiful and nutritious dish.
Love your pictures as well!
Thank you so much Parita! It really is all about creativity and trusting yourself in the kitchen, isn’t it? Eating nutritiously is not as hard as people make it out to be!
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Discovered your blog through HEAB and excited to read more.
So glad you found me! I love HEAB to death! Isn’t she amazing?
Just wanted to say hi!
“Hi” right back to ya MP! Thanks so much for stopping by my baby blog!
I’m addicted to your blog, I find myself on here more often than i’d like to admit lol. Now that i will have more time I have to plan on making some of your recipes. So happy you made this blog, thank you thank you thank you. XOXOXO <3
Girl, you’re gonna make my face start hurting from smiling so big! And no, thank you! My little bloggy would be nothing if it wasn’t for you and all my other faithful readers! Love ya!
ooh great blog concept/title! Love it! I love your new home too- kick asss kitchen!
Thank you Laural!
very cute blog. I just spent some time browsing some of your recipes. Love it!
Thank you Lindsay! Welcome to my little broccoli kissin world!
You so rock =)
I used to live in Clarksville, TN (well, technically Ft. Campbell, KY), but everything I did was in Clarksville.
I just found your blog and I’m glad I did. I can’t wait to read more of your posts.
i like ur blog i wiah u have facebook
Ask and thou shall receive!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kiss-My-Broccoli/186029581443154
Hey Heather – so I’m kinda new to this blogging thing, in fact, this is my first time! I too live in TN. I’ve always loved eating good food. There is nothing quite like the way really exquisite food can make you close your eyes and forget where you are for a moment!! I’m 27 and recently divorced. I was too depressed for a long time to cook for myself. (anything other than fishsticks or peanut butter and jelly!) But my heart is on the mend, and my appetite (for food and life!) is SLLOOOOWLY returning! haha. So I wanted to say thank you for your blog! I can’t wait to read more!!
Thank you so much for popping in and saying hello Lexi! It’s amazing how similar our stories sound. My love of the kitchen (and enjoying food in general) was the first thing to go when depression reared its ugly head during my divorce. It took me a long time before I was able to find joy in anything again. I remember that time when I started to come around and “see the light at the end of the tunnel” if you will. Stick with it girl, I promise it DOES get better!
If you ever need to talk about anything, I’ve always been a good listener. I know one of the biggest problems I had going through my divorce was finding someone just to listen (and not bash my ex). I’m just an email away!
Hi Heather! I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself because we have mutual blog “friends”
I’ve only been blogging for a few months and I just started reading your blog shortly after that. I have been truly LOVING it. And I just thought it was about time that I comment and let you know that I think you’re awesome and I absolutely love your blog 
Thanks so much!
No, THANK YOU!! I love “meeting” new readers! You are too sweet!
I’m off to go take a look at your baby blog!
Hi Heather!
Thank you so, so much for your help! I’m happy I’ve found your blog now!
I’m very sorry that I needed so long for a proper response and thank you, especially given your support! These days, I have a little technical trouble (my laptop died last weekend), so I’m not as present in the blog sphere as I’d like to be. I’ll be back to your blog with a vengeance as soon as I have a new laptop, hopefully by the end of the week.
Have a happy day!
Kath
You’re very welcome Kath! I hope you are getting enough feedback to help with your thesis. It’s a very interesting topic! Good luck with getting the new laptop!
It’s going quite well, thank you for asking!
And I’ve borrowed a notebook from a friend, so I’m back in the net now and about to hop over to your homepage.
Love your food philosophy, btw! The “You are what you eat”, and freeing yourself from labels.
I just found your blog through Pumped for Pumpkin and I LOVE IT! AHH your foods are delicious and droolworthy and I just love your broccoli-kissin awesomeness. Can’t wait to read more!
Aww, thank you Alexandra! LOVE Alexis’s blog! I’m so glad you found me!
Cute blog name, makes me smile.
You take really good pictures. I just read the post about protein pancake. I have protein pancake recipes and then there are days where I want shortcut and just add protein powder to Kodiak pancake mix and call it breakfast. It satisfies me the same.
Thank you Lea! I just took a quick look at your blog and I can’t wait to see more! You have some pretty stunning photographs as well!
Hey girl, nice to meet ya!! Thanks for following me on twitter because it lead me to your blog and I love it! I love your blog title too
lol and I love your food philosophy too. I hate the feeling of being labeled when it comes to food. Sometimes I won’t eat meet for a while, and other times I’ll eat a ton of chicken and turkey! Whatever makes me feel good!
Thank you Lisa! And thanks for stopping by! I don’t think we should ever live our lives according to our food. Eat what you love for yourself and no one else! <3
Oh I am SOOO excited I just came across your blog! You are right up my alley – I love to cook and eat clean and agree that the right spices make things so yummy. Plus, how much better do you feel for including all those clean, nutritious foods in your diet? Since I started eating clean, I noticed so many benefits and feel amazing. Very happy to add your blog to my google reader… I’d been searching for another healthy, fun blog recently!
Welcome Jenn! I’m so glad you found me too! Thanks for taking the time to say hey! So true how much better you feel once weed out all the processed junk and include more “clean” foods…no more feeling “bogged down” like I did when I ate all the preservative laden stuff! Hope to see more comments from you in the future! And happy new year!
Hey girl! I just found your blog and I love it! I read your “about me” and I am a CT tech, too! I work nights doing both CT’s and x-rays. I bet we could share some very interesting stories! I added you to my Google Reader since I usually read blogs from my phone.
Wow, what a small world! So glad to “meet” you Lisa! You are too sweet! How long have you been a tech?
glad to have found you on instagram! cant wait to read more!
I just want you to know that I actually squealed when I saw your comment on here the other day…I just didn’t have the time to respond. So so glad we found each other on Instagram! I swear I never really gave Bassets a second look until I saw all your cute little pup pics! Ahhh, those ears!!!!
hmmmm… what happened to your broccoli button? Did I break it? I overdid my bandwith AGAIN b/c i have too many photos and photobucket hates me so lmk if you still wanted it and i’ll tell you how to set it up on your own account so it wont crash and vanish like my shizz does
if you just didnt want it anymore no worries! love you mucho!
Actually, when Jay (my computer guy) and I were trying to figure out what was going on with my high CPU usage, we had to delete a few things to see if it helped. I’m not even sure if it did anything so I may try to put it back on sometime this week. I think I still have the email with the attachment saved, but I’ll let you know if I need another copy!
I just discovered your little corner of the Web here, and I’m loving it already! Thanks for sharing your blog with us.
Thank you so much Holly! I love to hear from new readers!
Hey,
Did you think about putting an opt-in form of some sort to capture the emails of all the people who’ve been to your blog? It looks like you have a ton and there’s nothing wrong with putting together an ebook of recipes that you put together and selling it for a few measly bucks that could make you a real decent living….i’m just sayin….