The Walk That Ate Santa Fe
Do it all and you cover nine miles over a wonderful four hours. You'll burn about 1,500 calories. That ought to cover three spectacular meals at Café Pasqual's.
Aromatic Grilled Chicken
Ginger. Mint. Lemon. Smoke. Not lightly fragrant. Not pleasantly aromatic. Powerfully aromatic. This is a chicken that's been transformed. To something that's wildly delicious - before you put the first bite in your mouth.
BLT Soup. Cool. Delicious. No joke.
A sandwich cross-dressing as a soup. Lettuce and herbs with milk. Amazing how flavorful it is. Before you add the tomatoes, bacon and croutons. Then it's a perfectly cool, light meal. Better. Cheaper. Chilled. Make it in three minutes.
Summer Herbs Become Pudding Cake
The best side dish of the Summer. A combination of wildly aromatic herb custard and herbed olive oil bread. Deeply, deeply flavorful. Completely satisfying but very, very light. Elevates any main course it shares a plate with.
Stronger Monday: A minute for your hips
If you want to increase your leg strength before you start a jogging or running program, today's Hip Flexion is a great Way. It'll strengthen your hip flexors and your quadriceps. Before you ask them to go the extra mile on the treadmill or out on the street. No weight machine necessary. Just a featherweight resistance tube.
Slower Sunday: Barefoot
A 1-minute vacation. A virtual walk on the beach. Before you Press Play: no shoes or socks. C'mon. Now wiggle your toes. No beach? Use grass instead. Feels almost as good.
Sweet Math: Strawberry-Rhubarb Yogurt
So delicious. So satisfying. So sweet. Zero added sugar. 60 cents for a 6-ounce serving of the best-tasting yogurt you can get. With 27% of your daily Vitamin C requirement. 18% of your Vitamin D and 12% of your protein.
Cooler: Arethusa Falls and the Cliff
Cold water. Cool mist. Plenty of shade under the big maple, birch and beech trees that line the trail to the falls. The opposite of summer in the city. Click for a trip to New Hampshire's White Mountains.
The Best Dressed Salads
These are the Salad Days. Farmers Markets are full of greens at their seasonal flavor peaks. The salad spinner and whisk are the busiest tools in the kitchen. If you were a leaf, you'd be thrilled to get tossed around in any one of these dressings.
Andrakla. You know, purslane.
A crisp, crunchy, creamy, intensely-flavorful salad that's satisfying, refreshing, very low in calories and, more important, near-zero in Glycemic Load. Walk it off in 30 minutes.