{"id":808,"date":"2010-07-24T00:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T00:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:44:58","slug":"the-whole-kitchen-way-to-wholesome-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/the-whole-kitchen-way-to-wholesome-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Kitchen Way to Wholesome Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What is it and why might you care about it?<\/h3>\n<p>Allison&#8217;s story makes a good illustration of the Whole Kitchen Way (R).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/vegetable-exhaustion-take-a-break-with-frozen-or-pre-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\">As related in an earlier post<\/a>, Allison has enthusiastically embraced everyday good eating.\u00a0 But every now and then she hits the vegetable exhaustion wall.\u00a0 My advice as a kitchen coach:\u00a0 take a break and make a super easy meal on those nights.\u00a0\u00a0 I even came up with the perfect &#8220;take-a-break&#8221; recipe:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/using-frozen-veggies-creamy-gingered-peas-and-white-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creamy Gingered Peas and White Fish<\/a>, a 15-minute, totally healthful and yummy one dish meal.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the kicker, though.\u00a0 The dish can be made in 15 minutes <strong><em>as long as you<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>keep a freezer pantry stocked with convenient frozen vegetables<\/li>\n<li>know to keep frozen fish filets and which ones to stock<\/li>\n<li>are familiar with ginger enough to use it as a main flavoring<\/li>\n<li>know how to buy and grate ginger<\/li>\n<li>have the tool to grate ginger in 10 seconds<\/li>\n<li>have that tool at your fingertips by the sink<\/li>\n<li>stock limes and fish sauce in your refrigerator pantry<\/li>\n<li>stock coconut milk, chicken broth and high-quality soy sauce in your pantry<\/li>\n<li>know how to deglaze a pan and not overcook fish<\/li>\n<li>have counter space for cooking that isn&#8217;t covered with clutter<\/li>\n<li>can access ingredients without lengthy searching<\/li>\n<li>can quickly lay your hands on cutting board, knife and measuring spoons and cups, and<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t forget to have some whole grain rice left over from the day before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did you ever stop to think of all the puzzle pieces that come together to create &#8220;the picture&#8221; of a healthful meal?&#8221;\u00a0 Most people have only the recipe piece.\u00a0 No wonder it&#8217;s so hard to complete the finished picture and get a good meal on the table.\u00a0 It&#8217;s because we&#8217;re working with a half (or quarter) kitchen, instead of a Whole Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Get a feel for this Whole Kitchen concept with the articles below:\u00a0 You&#8217;ll find the<a href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/using-frozen-veggies-creamy-gingered-peas-and-white-fish\/\"> Gingered Pea<\/a> recipe, but also\u00a0 information on planning for this kind of meal, integrating coconut milk into your pantry, confidently using coconut milk and why taking advantage of convenient frozen veggies shouldn&#8217;t be a source of nutritional guilt.\u00a0 Hopefully, you&#8217;ll gain a sense of the Whole Kitchen &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; that, if it&#8217;s in place, makes the recipe an entirely manageable, 15-minute undertaking.<\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to begin feeling good about the meals <\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i722.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww230\/mcolletterogers\/Vegetables_in_9_Bins_iStock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"230\" \/><em>you&#8217;re making and eating, like you&#8217;re doing your body a favor instead of filling it with the highly processed and refined\u00a0 foods, filled with fat, salt and sugar,then flavored and colored artificially?\u00a0 We don&#8217;t want to eat any more pesticide covered, chemically fertilized, environment-destroying foods.\u00a0 Are you ready to learn a Whole New Approach to Healthful Meal Making, so you can begin enjoying the meals of your dreams?\u00a0 The key lies in creating a supportive, Whole Kitchen.\u00a0 Join me for the next <a href=\"http:\/\/everydaygoodeating.com\/whole_kitchen_intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Kitchen Way to Wholesome Eating<\/a> series, beginning Wednesday, August 11.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a mystery:  How can we have good recipes, but they don&#8217;t show up on the table?  Maybe because we are playing the game with only a half (or quarter) of the kitchen, not a Whole Kitchen.  Find out what you might be missing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,32],"tags":[49,284,322,419,464,551,651],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-healthy-eating","category-supportive-thinking-for-healthy-cooking","category-meal-planning-organization-in-the-kitchen","tag-attitudes-for-healthy-eating","tag-healthy-eating","tag-how-to-stock-a-pantry","tag-pantry","tag-puzzle-pieces","tag-stocking-the-pantry","tag-whole-kitchen-way-to-wholesome-meals","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}