Perfectly Thymed

10/28/2026

Limited Winter Openings Are Here

The season is getting fuller: holidays, travel, new babies, early dark evenings. Let us take dinner off your plate.

We're opening a small number of seats for weekly delivery this winter:
November · 2 seats
December · 3 seats
January · 4 seats
Holiday weeks fill first.

Choose Family Meals for nourishing, chef-made dinners for the whole family, or Postpartum Nourishment for warming, restorative meals rooted in the First Forty Days.

In every meal:
✓ 100% gluten-free
✓ No seed oils
✓ Glass containers, never plastic
✓ Organic, grass-fed & finished
✓ Wild-caught & locally sourced

We deliver anywhere in Greater Austin, from the city itself out to the surrounding towns.

Request your invitation through the link in our bio. Once a month is full, it's full.

📍 Greater Austin, TX

10/25/2026

We made these for my nursing mamas, the ones eating one-handed at 2am with a baby on the breast.

They look and taste like a treat, but every bite is quietly working for you:

Pumpkin: warming, easy to digest, and a TCM favorite for rebuilding after birth
Sesame: rich in healthy fats and minerals, and traditionally given to new mothers to support milk
Sunflower lecithin: often recommended by lactation consultants when milk feels thick or ducts feel clogged
Collagen: protein for a body that's still healing
Colostrum: nature's first food, full of immune-supporting nutrients

I'm still nursing at 17 months, so I know how much it means to have something nourishing within arm's reach that doesn't feel like one more task.

Comment "mochi" for the recipe!

10/18/2026

Bò Kho | Vietnamese Beef Stew

Yesterday, the whole kitchen smelled like my mom’s house.
Between the lemongrass, star anise, cinnamon, and beef slowly simmering away, it brought me right back to my childhood. The kind of meal I remember coming home to on cool fall evenings.

I grew up with these flavors, and it makes me so happy that I now get to share a little piece of my culture with families across Austin.

That's one of the things I love most about what I do. I get to make food that means something to me, while knowing I'm also putting together meals that genuinely nourish the families I'm cooking for.

This week's Bò Kho was slow-braised until tender and served with cilantro rice. Simple, comforting, and full of the flavors I grew up loving.
A little taste of home, from my family to yours.

10/17/2026

Six weeks postpartum, I went back to work in disposable underwear and told everyone I was fine.

These are real photos of me in my first weeks as a mother. When I look at them now, I don't see the smile. I see a woman who had just been through the biggest transformation of her life and who decided she had no right to still be struggling.

I did everything I was taught. For 30 days I didn't shower, honoring the TCM and cultural traditions that protect a mother's body after birth. I took my full 40 days. I learned to wear her. I nursed her on walks, at brunch, in parks, and I never once covered up or apologized. I was fierce about feeding my baby.

But I wasn't fierce about caring for myself.

When my 40 days ran out, I thought my time to need help had run out too. So I went back to work at 6 weeks, still in disposable underwear, still bleeding, still healing. I pumped in the bathroom between meetings. I pumped in my car. Then I came home and held a baby who only felt safe on me, and lay awake all night watching her breathe.

And I kept saying, "I'm fine."

To the woman in these pictures:
You weren't failing. You were still healing. Still learning. Still growing. Still becoming.
You didn't need to earn rest.
You didn't need to be okay yet.
You protected her so fiercely. I wish you had protected yourself like that too.

If you're reading this with a baby asleep on your chest, telling everyone you're fine, please hear me. Forty days is not a deadline. There is no timer on healing. You are allowed to still need support.

I see you. I was you.

10/15/2026

Before Amelia, there was you.

I had a feeling the day before. There was light bleeding, and I did what so many of us do: I panicked quietly and I waited. The next day, the bleeding came heavily, and I spent it in the hospital making sure my body had let go of everything it had been holding.

These photos are from that day.

We took you somewhere quiet, by the water. That's where you rest. I think about that place more than anyone knows.

Amelia is my rainbow baby, and I'm grateful for her every single day. But she didn't erase you. Both things are true: I'm a mother who lost a baby, and a mother who got to bring one home.

If you're carrying a loss no one can see, Im with you. You don't have to be "over it." You're allowed to grieve a baby you never got to hold.

Today, on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, I'm lighting a candle for you, little one, and for every baby who was loved and lost too soon.

10/15/2026

What my first 40 days actually looked like.

Not the aesthetic version. The real one.

I stayed in bed for 40 days. I didn't leave the house. I didn't even leave my room. My whole world was my baby, my bed, and the next feed.
Before she came, I prepped a month of meals for myself. Then I labored for 36 hours and ate about 90% of them.

So my partner and my brother cooked for me. Two men. Feeding a brand new mother who had never breastfed before. I still can't fully believe it.

Eggs at almost every meal. So much salmon and seaweed. A placenta smoothie every single day. (Yes, I consumed my placenta. No, I'm not going to debate it.) They pulled the ancestral meats I'd hoarded in the freezer and turned them into curries and homemade pizza. Somehow they figured out claypot catfish, and I still don't know how. My water was never empty. They made me that chicken nugget, crème fraîche and caviar trend just so I could feel a little piece of the world I couldn't reach from my newborn bubble.

I was eating so much they couldn't keep up with fresh meals. At some point they stopped asking if I was hungry, because most days I didn't know what day it was or what time it was. They just kept bringing food. Back to back.

Was it perfect? No. I ate a lot of instant ramen and Spam. We ordered out. I had processed food.

And my postpartum was hard. Harder than I let most people see. Mentally, physically, emotionally. Our bodies change so much, so fast, and nobody really prepares you for that.

But food is what got me up every two hours to feed, pump, change diapers, and do it all over again. Food is what let me breastfeed. And I never once had to think about it.

My family and my village held me to the very best of their ability. I'm so grateful. And I know that so many mothers never get that.
That's why Perfectly Thymed exists.

For the hunger. For the nights that blur into days. For being awake 24 hours a day for months. For the relief of not having to think about food. And for every mother who deserves to be cared for the way I was, for as long as she needs it.

This is why I hold the mother, not the baby.

10/08/2026

This is the whole point.

Lake mornings. Little toes in the water. Feeding her the way I feed you, with my whole heart.

I'm a mother first, always. Perfectly Thymed is how I make space for you to be one too.

10/03/2026

Warm pumpkin oats, slow-cooked until soft and creamy, topped with saffron-spiced stewed pears, dried rose petals, and a sprinkle of bee pollen.

After birth, your body is working hard to rebuild. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is a time to keep mama warm, from the inside out. That means cooked, soft, gently spiced foods that are easy to digest, not cold smoothies and raw salads.

Pumpkin is grounding and nourishing.
Stewed pears are gentle on digestion.
Saffron brings warmth and a little lift to the spirit.
Rose is for the heart, because the fourth trimester is emotional too.

This is what nourishment looks like when someone else is thinking about it for you.

Postpartum meals, prepared with intention and delivered across Austin. Link in bio to learn more.

Save this for your fourth-trimester plan, or send it to someone who's about to need it.

Comment "pumpkin" and I'll send you the recipe!

09/29/2026

The Harvest Table is now open.

This Thanksgiving, let us set the table for you.

Our holiday menu brings together everything you love about Thanksgiving, made from scratch with pasture-raised proteins and seasonal ingredients. Every dish arrives chilled, with simple warming instructions, so you can spend the day with the people around your table instead of in the kitchen.

On the menu:
Herb-butter roasted turkey breast or Rosemary Ham maple-orange glazed ham
Bone broth pan gravy
Brown butter sweet potatoes with pecan crumble
Whipped garlic Yukon gold potatoes
Three-cheese baked mac
Blistered green beans with crispy shallots
Cornbread dressing with sage and sausage
Ginger-orange cranberry sauce
Brown butter rolls with whipped honey butter

Made without gluten, seed oils, or refined sugar.

For 6 to 8 guests: $550
For 10 to 12 guests: $800

Ready Wednesday, November 25, with complimentary pickup in Austin or delivery available.

We're preparing only 10 tables this season. Orders close November 9 or once all tables are reserved.

Reserve your table: https://perfectlythymed.hbportal.co/public/6abaf609240a8d5db40c9d76?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAacwpf4ahwnKTeercDoCyAHhlpOIdFs1NQEdE-lphVjYXWC1GwzFX92yzwH6wg_aem_nhOfizI33pkwLCubOgAASQ

Perfectly Thymed offers postpartum meal delivery, family meals, kids lunches, and gut-healthy food in Austin with whole-food, seed oil-free ingredients.