Slower Sunday: Garden of Frills
You can balance an arrangement on your head and be a parade. Or you can find an early spring garden and just ... look. Press Play for a minute of just looking. To help you decide. Happy Easter
Melts in your mouth, not your backpack
Peanut Butter & Grape Bread. Not a joke. Profoundly great bread. Without kneading dough. Really. Just 30 seconds of stirring. Because sometimes you just feel like eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When you're out hiking.
Parallel Parking: Preparing for Hiking
It's National Park Week. Free admission tomorrow to every one of them. Enjoy your Parks fully. And carefully. Because only you can prevent forest fires. Really. Smokey the Bear got laid off.
Here's how to get in shape for Park walking and hiking. In an imaginary park. When you hit the real trail, you're ready to rock. And climb.
Easter Eggs
If you're hunting for an Easter egg dish, let me help. Here are 10 recipes for a wonderful Sunday brunch after your stroll in the Easter Parade.
Risi e Bisi: Sweet Spring Pea Risotto
Luscious, creamy rice. Fresh, sweet Spring peas. And some smoky prosciutto. Elegant and hearty for an early Spring night. Those fresh peas are the best reason to visit the Farmers Market this week.
Spring Faves: Favas
Must be Spring. Fresh fava beans at the Farmers Market. They're bright green, they're tender, they're slightly sweet. Preparing them is Slow. But really worth it. And they're great in my Complete Protein Tacos.
Slower Sunday: Can’t wait
A few hundred miles north of here, where I live, it's still all promise, no blossoms. But if you just can't wait that extra week or two, you can come down here.
What We Can Learn from Ginger Ale
You can make a glass of intensely flavorful, thoroughly refreshing and, yes, kinda sweet soda with a fraction of the sugar calories you'd get in a can or bottle of Coke or another industrial soda. This is the gateway homemade soda pop.
Hiking Abraham-Lincoln in Vermont
Five miles on The Long Trail in Vermont. To the summit of Mt. Abraham and the top of Lincoln Peak. And back. Burn 1,200 calories on a beautiful half-day hike. Then restore a few just up the road on the Ben & Jerry's factory tour.
Spring Soup Strategy Some garlic with your tea?
A perfect Way to begin a light, slow and satisfying Spring meal. Another Way to use great aroma - and lots of it - to let you eat less but feel like you ate more. A little garlic with your tea?