Simple recipes for cooking, baking, eating, and joyful nourished living
From the monthly archives:
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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?”
He sums it up in his eater’s [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 I had in the freezer. [...]
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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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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 is [...]
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When we severely restrict calorie intake our metabolism slows down and our body holds on to its fat to protect it self from a perceived famine situation. According to Martha Beck, author of The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace, “When you diet in a highly restrictive way, or [...]
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How many times do we need to be told that restrictive diets don’t work before we will believe it and give up all the fads? I still find myself perking up and tuning in when I hear about a new “diet” someone is trying or see a new “diet book” on the shelves even [...]
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