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Recipe: White Fish with Lemon-Crumb Topping
Quick Meal Idea Looking for something filling and satisfying (and why not fun and easy, too?) Here's what came together for me a couple nights ago: Leftover brown rice fried in coconut oil, roasted zucchini spears and baked white fish. If you have time, a crumb...
Feel like there’s no time to cook?
Check out this idea This weekend was the second time I've seen an article recently about social media detoxing. Among the many benefits cited by detoxers: Suddenly they had time to cook! And they liked it! One detoxer described how he became more centered on finding...
My Lesson in “Seeing” Food
A previous post shared three new "muscles" needed to better withstand the environmental pressure exerted by our Convenience Eating Culture. But these three "muscles" weren't always a part of my toolbox. In fact, there was a time in the 70s and 80s when I was excited...
Kitchen Tip: The Most Under-Appreciated Condiment
Quick Question: What's languishing, all but forgotten, on the condiment shelf in almost all our refrigerators? Mustard, of course! Poor mustard waits patiently for hamburger nights but you can almost hear it begging for more: "Give me a chance! I can do so much more...
Missing the Mark? What if you just need to build different muscles?
The next couple weeks are going to be make-or-break time for healthy eating resolutions. That's when most of them fall by the wayside. So here's a thought if you start missing the mark on one or more of yours: What if it's not all your fault?!! What if bigger forces...
Hidden Riches in the Kitchen
The kitchen has a reputation problem. All too often, it is seen as a place of toil and tedium, where it takes too much time to make food that "no one likes anyway." That reputation has been created and carefully nurtured by our Convenience Eating Culture which prefers...
Recipe: Roasted Winter Squash with Raisin Pecan Sauce
Making the Winter Squash For this recipe, delicata squash (which is the variety pictured above) is an excellent choice, sweeter and more flavorful than the acorn squash often plentiful in the grocery store. Read below to discover a neat trick for quickly cooking hard...
A Hidden Message in Food
Does the Earth Love Us? Does Food Hold Any Hopeful Evidence? In a recent podcast, storyteller Leah Lamb shared stories about her work with whales and how, among many other amazing contributions, whales are "known as being able to influence fields of energy with voices...
Recipe: Healthy Sweetness–Roasted Winter Pears
Roasted winter pears are a great guilt-free treat that can satisfy the "free" crowd (i.e., GF, DF and sugar free folks--like me!) But top with a splash of cream,whipped cream or even ice cream and it will please the regular dessert crowd, too. Roasted pears can also...
Crockpots, Instant Pots, Microwaves and Meal Plans: See What Other Readers Are Saying
Who would have guessed that crockpots, instant pots, meal planning and microwaves would generate such interesting feedback? I got so many thought-provoking comments after the last couple posts that I wanted to use them as a springboard for further conversation. Meal...
Podcast: Taking the “Outlandish” Out of Eating Well
A couple weeks ago I joined Easton Gladney on his podcast, Value Squared that is directed at people in the digital world. We talked about Meal Making Transformation in the context of today's work culture which, sadly, is pretty much antagonistic to healthy living. I...
Is Struggle the Only Meal Making Model?
Glimpsing an Alternative Food Universe There was a lovely post on LinkedIn from Carol Amendola D'Anca who leads immersive excursions in southern Italy so people can experience the lifestyle of longevity firsthand. Here's what she had to say upon her return to the U.S....