January 2008

Favorite Cooking Classes and Vacations

by Martha

I love taking and teaching cooking classes.

Through the years I have attended many recreational cooking sessions, all over the country and even spent some time assisting with Sur La Table cooking classes in Scottsdale where I was paid for attending classes, gathering recipes, meeting great chefs and honing my cooking skills. Here are some of my favorites.

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The 21 Day Challenge–No Complaining for 21 Days!

by Martha

I am reading a new book, The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity: A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance by Edwene Gaines, in which she suggests you take a 21 day break from gossiping, complaining, and criticizing to really open yourself up to new possibilities.

She calls it a life changing exercise and substantiates this with personal experience.

Talk about simplifying your life!

I feel lighter and freer just thinking about it!

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In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan

January 26, 2008

I have just finished Michael Pollan’s latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and all I can say is wow. It’s his follow up to his bestseller, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals that attempts to answer the question “What should I eat?”

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Cultivating Healthy Habits

January 17, 2008

How do we cultivate healthy habits and make positive changes in our lives? We have two options: we can let go of something that isn’t working or we can introduce something new that will. For example we can stop (or severely limit) our consumption of french fries or we can commit to eating an extra [...]

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What is Nourishing Yoga?

January 14, 2008

Nourishing Yoga is a kinder gentler approach to health and fitness that focuses on taking care of ourselves, not beating ourselves up. We tend to be so hard on ourselves, focusing on our perceived weaknesses and faults, instead of celebrating our strengths. We think that if we just keep working harder, eating less, and denying [...]

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Shrimp and Chicken Sausage Healthy Jambalaya Recipe

January 13, 2008

Here’s a great healthy jambalaya recipe. Seeking something a little out of the ordinary, yet relatively easy for dinner last night, I came up with this shrimp & chicken sausage jambalaya. It’s based on a recipe I came across in a new magazine called Clean Eating I used shrimp and sausage since that was what [...]

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Clearing the Clutter from our Diets

January 10, 2008

One of the best ways to clean up our eating and improve our health is to eliminate the ‘clutter’ from our diets. This includes all the sources of ‘empty’ calories devoid of nutrition like soda, refined sugars, unhealthy fats and overly processed foods. I recently read that junk food now makes up nearly one third [...]

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Jack La Lanne’s Philosophy

January 9, 2008

My brother recently came across the following quote from Jack La Lanne and sent it to me. “There are more gyms now than ever, and all kinds of crackpot diets, too,” he says. “It seems like they’re all out to make money. This stuff is so simple. Like I’ve always said, exercise is king, diet [...]