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Nutrition, Inspiration and Avoiding Troublesome Gaseous Issues Nutrition  While beans are packed with nutrients and protein, I try not to focus unduly on nutrition facts, like how Food G has XYZ nutrients while Food S has ABC nutrients.  This approach turns healthy eating into an arithmetic problem, and most of us never liked arithmetic to … Read more

Miso is a thick seasoning paste made from soybeans.  It hails from Japan, where it has been eaten for centuries.  To the modern kitchen it brings flavor that’s super fast but nutritious .  Really, you don’t have to fool with any other seasonings.  Just add a dollop of no-to-low calorie miso and you get amazing … Read more

For our healthy meal making classes, we always bring “clean” meat (i.e., free of antibiotics and growth hormones, humanely processed and often locally grown and processed, grass-fed and/or organic, free-range, etc.)  Participants love how it tastes and wonder where it can be bought. Of course this line of inquiry runs us smack dab into the … Read more

Moving the Conversation Past the Dead End Sign It’s a mantra, said almost automatically any more:  “I can’t afford healthy food.  It’s too expensive.” Like Time, Affordability is a dead-ender.  In other words, once raised, it effectively dead ends a conversation about healthy eating.  If we don’t have time or can’t afford good food, then … Read more

There’s a part of Colorado you probably don’t know about.  Mostly, we Coloradans live in a narrow band of settlement, strung out along the foothills that run north and south.  From there, Colorado stretches to the west, into the spectacular peaks, canyons, mesas and forests that make Colorado a natural playground. But there’s a part … Read more

I remember reading about it years ago, in Eat Here, Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket.  Among hundreds of interesting insights into our food system, Brian Halweil revealed this tidbit:  Britain’s National Collection features of 2000 varieties of apples!  What’s more, spread among this diversity is an almost continuous harvest, with some varieties ripening … Read more

I once had a job opening envelopes.  All day long.  I quit after four days.  It was either that or take up a drug habit to survive the mindlessness. I thought about that experience today, as I was sautéing plums to freeze for winter.  I did this last year and the plums were divine.  But … Read more