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Podcast: “Reclaiming Health, Culture & Connection Through Meal Making”
YouTube Audio Only on Apple This was an especially fun podcast for me. First, it was on SoulShift, a unique show that "offers a pause for reflection, self-connection, and meaningful change with weekly conversations exploring how lasting transformation happens at the...
Recipe: Who Woulda’ Thunk Chili
This week's recipe comes from Mindy Gorman-Plutzer, one of the hosts who interviewed me for a recent podcast, "Reclaiming Health, Culture & Connection Through Meal Making." Near the end of the podcast, Mindy shared a wonderful story about her chili recipe. I want...
Recipes: 2 Easy Dishes with Leeks and Cauliflower
'Tis the Season You can get both leeks and cauliflower any time of year because grocery stores source food from all over the country and world. But since they are cold-weather crops, they taste best--and are often more affordable--in the winter months. Here are a...
What if cooking is just plain burdensome?
"Cooking last week was so tiring and, frankly, just plain burdensome." So concluded Kris, one of the participants in a class I taught recently. I loved her honest assessment of the previous cooking week, especially the word "burdensome." What a "perfect" word! I had...
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...