I had just made a lot of homemade yogurt and I separated it into little glass jars, then I filled these colorful containers with nuts, seeds and spices and placed them in the fridge on top of the yogurt containers. I felt so darned organized and perhaps I’m easy to please, but they were so pretty… Read More
Here are some menus from some upcoming classes: Summer Menus: September 8th in Santa Rosa 4:00 to 6:30 Comfort Food to Make You Smile ~Arugula Salad with Toasted Sunflower Seeds, Tangerines and Buttermilk Dressing ~Turkey Meatloaf with Four Vegetables ~Roasted New Potatoes with Parsley Pesto ~Steamed Broccoli with Lemon Butter ~Apple Pie September 10th in… Read More
The past few days I have been experimenting with new salad dressings. I tried two recipes which I didn’t create and they weren’t quite right for my taste, but with a few ‘tweaks’ I got them to where I wanted them. Both these recipes happen to be vegan. I am not a vegan, but I… Read More
Whenever I have a lot of writing to do, I find that I also cook a lot more. I also walk my doggie pal Wilma a lot more. My wrists start to get sore (I have an exercise for that) and my brain gets fuzzy, so I unconsciously head to the kitchen. In the last… Read More
(bil-doo ngz-roh-mahn) It’s a noun. It generally ‘denotes the education, development and maturing of a young protagonist’ or ‘the moral and psychological growth of the main character.’ Today, I was at my computer weaving my time between fundraising for DirectionFive and editing the health programs based on the kid’s comments from the pilot programs when… Read More
Doesn’t just the thought of walking down this path make you calmer? It certainly does that for me. I absolutely need my time in nature or I start to get a little stir crazy. Nature time is a necessary part of life for me. Nature deficit disorder is a term coined by Richard Louv in… Read More
