Moving Monday: 1 minute for your chest
Time for a 1-minute exercise you can do at home or at work. One example of something you should do once every hour or two. C'mon. Stand up. Flex those chest and shoulder muscles. Press Play to see the Way.
Slower Sunday: It’s About Time
This might be the reason to garden. You get to see everything come back to life every year. It's very reassuring. Makes you feel good about next year. And the next one. Get outside and take a walk through time. It only looks like this for a few weeks. Every year.
Cinco de Mayo Corn & Chile Pudding Cake
It's festive. It's colorful. The flavor of fresh, sweet, mellow corn. The hot pop of tiny flecks of hot chile pepper. The top half's an astonishingly light cornbread, almost soufflé-like. The bottom half's the silkiest, lightest pudding.
The Walk That Ate Mexico City
Chilaquiles for breakfast at the century-old Cafe Tacuba. Six or seven hours of sightseeing. A big, long, slow, late lunch at the even older Bar Alfonso. A siesta. A one-mile stroll around the 16th-century Zocalo, the city's central square. And time to contemplate dinner.
Chicken Escabeche. Best second.
One of the very best Ways to eat leftover chicken. No reheating. No drying. Preserves juiciness and adds a complementary flavor that makes cold chicken as delicious as hot-out-of-the-oven chicken.
Walnut-Raisin Bread. Go nuts
Tastes and smells Way too good to be so good for you. A whole-grain bread that's not heavy. A profoundly great bread full of wildly healthy walnuts. A big, hearty bread you make without kneading dough. Just 30 seconds of stirring. Honest. Let me be the first to wish you a happy National Raisin Day.
Spring Green over Winter White: Gnocchi
Twenty minutes to transform humble potato and just-picked spring peas and leeks into a luscious, satisfying and magical dinner. $1.50 for a big, impressive, aromatic serving. Then dance for an hour and burn all 300 calories.
Stronger Monday: Purvottanasana
That's Sanskrit for the good old Reverse Plank exercise. Actually, Reverse Plank's probably Modern Gym Class for this age-old yoga pose. That's great for maintaining muscle strength when you start to approach old age. Stronger arm, back and core muscles.
Nuts! Walnut-Fava Bean Salad on Polenta
Your eyes and nose are partying. Your mouth is thrilled. Soft, rich, luscious polenta with the firm favas' sweetness and the crunchy walnuts', well, nuttiness. Slicked with olive oil and sea salt. Delicious, satisfying, packed with vegetable protein.