Sweet Potatoes in the French Manner
Preheat oven to 425. Peel one 3 lb bag of organic sweet potatoes (Trader Joe’s has them for cheap!) and cut into 1/2 inch strips about 2-5 inches long. Toss potatoe strips in 3 T olive oil and spread out on two 18″ by 13″ jelly roll pans or on 18″ by 24″. The object is to have all strips in contact with the pan. Sprinkle each pan with 1/2 tsp kosher salt and 1 tsp Bragg’s Spice mix. Place pans in oven and set timer for 10 minutes, Turn and redistribute potaotoes. Repeat this twice for total cooking time of 30 minutes. Enjoy a healthy and more nutritionally dense alternative to fried white potatoes! If you are grilling make four individual foil packets and place them on the edges of the grill before and while main course cooks...
Post time: and the horses are in the gates…
Not only do seasons change but how we measure them alters as time progresses. I realized this morning that Mother’s Day, my best ever I might add, had come and gone and I didn’t even know who won the Kentucky Derby. There was a time, back when I still had a Mother, that May was as much about that race as it was about flower baskets and hand drawn cards with couplet sentiments. I was often at risk for getting knocked about a bit this time of year for leaving evidence that I had perused the sports pages before my father, he slept in on Sunday, only arising in time to drag us all to whatever church of god or academia he was worshipping at that week. Horse racing was at its peak in spring, and baseball had just begun. These were the only two sports I...
“Speaking Rock”
This repost is directly in response to a thread on the Mythic Cafe. And a personal favorite because it reminds me of when the relationship I had with my favorite sister began to heal; a relationship that has come miles from that writing. Not that either of us have changed much, we just stopped being afraid and started listening. Speaking Rock “Do you remember,” she said as her arm about to launch yet another loose pebble missile at some poor unsuspecting scrub pine was stayed by her lost reverie retrieved; and the army of hair on my own arm paused at attention in the warm Sonoran wind. This trip was my idea. A chance for sisters lost to each other in all but fact to find a place where more than genes connected us But it was all I had done that...
Delicious and Nutritious breakfast porridge recipe and my protein powder preference quandry
A healthy day begins with a healthy breakfast. I know this not only from the plethora of pointed press I have been force fed or voluntarily consumed about nutrition, but also from personal experience. In fact, this is perhaps the only nutrition fact that has remained consistent in my 50+ years of trying to eat right and eat well. In my life of battling unwanted weight gain and episodes of malaise, general joint pain and depression, as well as acknowledged opportunities to find healthy options during life altering illness, I have seen the rise and fall and rise again of low carb, low fat, low sugar, liquid food substitutes, calorie counting, and cabbage (or other single healthy food) heavy diets. I have been taught four food groups, food pyramids, glycemic index,...
Stroke, stroke, stroke, breathe
Back in the water this morning, first time in 6 months, I went with the goal of at least putting my face in the water, and best case scenario completing a length or two without a kickboard. I far exceeded my own expectations. The water was cold on my feet and even colder on my shins and thighs but then the windy day made staying out of the water worse than diving in, so in I went. I borrowed Dawn’s kickboard as mine is lost somewhere in the interim off training and I did my first length swimming head waaaay above water and psyching myself off for face in the water breathing on the back length. Fear fought back and the excuse wheel spun but I learned last year that the best way to push past my “face in water” phobia is to just do it, so I...
Spring Lamb with Fennel, a Tudor England inspired pottage.
Of first importance in creating any delicious and nutritious concoction is the purchase of fresh and tasty ingredients. Vegetables should be firm and smell fresh, no need to bruise, just a light squeeze on the onion or fennel bulb will allow you to determine its freshness. I recommend local and organic, but managing at least one of these will help the flavor of your soup immensely. The meat should also be fresh, I find meat that adheres to my standards of cleanliness and compassion at Eastern markets, Whole Foods and sometimes even Costco. I do my research online before shopping but if you can’t find organic Humane Choice accredited free range lamb, then go with Halal lamb as the requirements of being certified Halal...
brain cell conservation
Since writing is not currently the primary way I support myself, but pediatric homecare is, I apologize to me readers for the lack of new blogs this week. Maybe some pictures of how the homesteading is progressing, a recipe or two and how my first time back at “try”athlete bootcamp went will be posted tomorrow but for now this is all the post you get. I am practicing brain cell conservation as I go into the fifth day in a row of working 9, 10 and 12 hour days. Need all those little buggers to keep my patients healthy and alive AND leave their space orderly, etc. Thanks for your patience fellow conservationists, and for those young enough to still be killing them off not conserving them, I can only plead forgiveness. Namaste, mates!