Chinese Chicken Salad
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! It was so hot yesterday, I had to get out of my kitchen. So I fired up the grill and whipped up one of my favorite salads on the deck for dinner. I had some skinless, boneless chicken thighs marinating in some teriyaki sauce, [...]
Continue reading »Summer Reading
I was fortunate to have a bright sunny week at the beach last week. I unplugged as best as I could and caught up on some reading. Thanks to a speed reading course I took freshman year in college, I’m a voracious reader. After spending much of my summer in a camp garden, my reading [...]
Continue reading »The CDC and Childhood Obesity: Thinking Outside the Box
School food reform is not about building a better nugget for the cafeteria or pumping up the pizza with whole wheat crust and low fat cheese. What we must do is raise the Food IQ and transform the culture of food in each and every school district in the USA. Here’s how.
Continue reading »Fun @ Camp is About to Begin
Camp Ballibay is leading the way in camp food that is fun and delicious.
Continue reading »Slow Money
I’m heading up to VT this week to attend the 2nd annual Slow Money Gathering. What is slow money? Its similar to Slow Food. It’s about knowing where your money is going to and coming from. Investing in companies you believe in. Supporting local/ regional businesses, especially when it comes to food. Speakers at the [...]
Continue reading »Goodbye Ben & Jerry, Hello Blue Pig
My “food rules” when it comes to ice cream is make it real! I discovered a new micro-creamery near me that serves real ice cream, what a treat!
Continue reading »Dangerous Words
Yesterday, I wrote about the ambiguous nature of one word: sugar. The food industry and well meaning mainstream nutritionists have succeeded in confusing us. Is sugar good? Is it bad? I spend loads of time helping clients understand the distinctions between the sugar found in carrots and how that is completely different from the crystalline [...]
Continue reading »Weed Walk
I spent some time this morning pulling up weeds in my lawn and my flower beds. Weeds never cease to amaze and inspire me. I can learn loads from their persistence and resilience. Even better than that, I can supplement my lunch! My lawn hasn’t been sprayed with anything for the past 12 years, so [...]
Continue reading »Slow Cooking Up a Solution
The more I learn about building movements, the more I appreciate my Crock Pot. My handy slow cooker has taught me much about fixing good food for my family along with the fine art of patience and persistence. This morning, I popped loads of veggies into my slow cooker along with some bison meat that [...]
Continue reading »This Teacher Is Fed-Up!
She is fed up with school food and is taking it personally. Very personally. An unidentified teacher somewhere in the mid-west has started a horrifying stunt. She will be eating (and photographing) her school’s lunch every day this year. I greatly admire her bravery to put her health on the line to make a point. [...]
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