By Leighann on Jun 22, 2009 in Healthy Living, Vegetarian Cooking, What's Cooking? | 19 Comments
Ten Simple Changes to Cut Calories and Keep Flavor + Add Nutrients The beautiful Natalie gives 10 tips for easy, healthy, yummy foods. Lose weight, get more and better nutrition, and reduce fat. This is a long video, but worth watching. To check out the book by Seinfeld’s wife about sneaking in healthy foods into [...]
By Leighann on Dec 14, 2008 in Healthy Living, Nothing Like a Good Book, Saving Money, What's Cooking? | 2 Comments
Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.
By Leighann on Apr 29, 2008 in Green Stuff, Nothing Like a Good Book, Wow | 0 Comments
Kindle – What I Want for Mother’s DayHave you heard about the new “Kindle” from Amazon? This is a great little product, and I just love it! It’s a little device, about the size of a paperback novel, that let’s you download and read books, newspapers and magazines, as well as audio books, word files [...]
By Leighann on Apr 26, 2008 in Healthy Living, Nothing Like a Good Book, Vegetarian Cooking, What's Cooking? | 1 Comment
20 Minutes to Dinner by Bryanna Clark GroganThe subtitle for this book is Quick, Low-fat, Low-Calorie, Vegetarian Meals. And it should be noted that they are also vegan: no eggs, no milk, cheese, butter, or other dairy, and of course, no other animal products. Most of her recipes include some kind of tofu, or other [...]
By Leighann on Apr 19, 2008 in Healthy Living, Nothing Like a Good Book, What's Cooking? | 1 Comment
Food and Healing by Annemarie ColbinThis is a thought-provoking book about how our diet affects our daily life from emotional, physical and spiritual perspectives. I found a lot of myself in Annemarie. She was Dutch but lived in South America for most of her childhood and adolescence. Then she moved to America. She was married [...]