Health
How I Get My Kid To Eat Carrots
How DO you get a kid to eat carrots? To which you should ask, “ah, how old’s the kid?” My short list: 1. Add sauce. 2. YOU have to eat it (and look like you’re enjoying it). 3. Do a song and dance number about how much you LOOOOVE carrots. 4. Don’t make it …Continue Reading
Dark Side of the Minestrone Soup
Taste the rainbow chard, kale, white or kidney beans, elbow macaroni, carrots, tomatoes, purple carrots, did I already say beans? How about today you pack your senses with nothing but the classics? I’ve got what you need: Pink Floyd and pasta. Pasta in soup! Brilliant! But, what? No meat? You can’t have any pudding if …Continue Reading
And Now The Practice of Yoga Begins
I began my wellness journey — my journey to being well — while sitting in a cubicle in the earlier days of the internet, circa 2000. Sitting in this box, with fluorescent lighting humming overhead and taking much-too-frequent smoke breaks, I knew deep down that this was not the life for me. I saw my …Continue Reading
Kitchen Disco…Why?
Because cooking is and should be fun. Because food is really, really good. Because eating is fun. And pleasurable. And you should put speakers in your kitchen and dance around to your favorite tunes. You should also do spontaneous yoga to this music. The kitchen is the hub, the center, the business center of a …Continue Reading
The Downward Spiraled Veggies
This recipe does not contain spiralized vegetables. That shit is ridic. Sure, it may be more appropriate to have some kind of spiral pasta in this dish, but I’m here to persuade you to eat more lentils. Because they’re good and good for you. Today’s dish inspired by: The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails’ 1994 …Continue Reading