To Amphitheater Lake in the Tetons
This is one of those hikes that makes your day. Makes your vacation. Makes IMAX look like a postcard. Ten miles out and back. Six thousand feet up and down. 4,000 calories burned. A great full day.
Spring Frittata
A perfect meal in a pan. Early Spring asparagus and onions. Really fresh eggs and goat cheese. For dinner on a still cool night, eat it warm. For lunch, let it cool to room temperature. A few minutes of chopping and stirring. One suspenseful second of flipping.
Pizza with onions to cry for.
Looks too beautiful to eat. Tastes even Better. Maybe the best under-$2 pizza ever. The crust is light and crisp, just faintly salty and sweet at the same time. The onions are very sweet, almost caramelized. Required kitchen skills: stirring, slicing.
On the Ball: Roll-ups
Here's another Way to amuse yourself while you exercise. The Ball is unstable. It rolls. Unless you exert force to keep it in place. Which means you engage many large and small muscles. Very time-efficient. And it burns more calories.
Lime-Orange Olive Oil Cake
Hard to say if this is better for breakfast or for dessert. Depends if you want ice cream with it. Either way, it's a light, moist and refreshing cake. Very intense lime flavor makes it vibrant. A little orange for sweet. Olive oil keeps it moist and light. Ten minutes to prepare.
The Walk That Ate Rome
Big city. Many ways to see it. You could walk from church to church. Museum to museum. Or eat your Way through it, from Farmers Market to Farmers Market. They're everywhere. Walk at a moderate pace: 18 miles and 4,000 calories in 9 hours. Some day.
Huevos Rancheros for Cinco de Mayo
About $1 (12 pesos) for this vibrantly flavored meal. Soft, rich egg. Crisp and soft corn tortilla. Spicy sweet salsa. A spectacular breakfast for 163 calories. OK, maybe mañana. But not later. This is too good, too cheap and too easy.
Spring in your risotto
Risotto primavera. That sounds Better. The world's best rice. With very fresh asparagus. Spring leeks. The splurge: morel mushrooms. You can make a great risotto in 30 minutes. Required kitchen skill: stirring. And not that much.
Hummus. Yours is Better and Cheaper.
$2.50 in ingredients for enough rich, flavorful hummus to dip many dozens of chips. Takes 90 seconds and a food processor. A few minutes more with a bowl and spoon. A totally fresh high-fiber, high-protein snack for half the price of store-bought.
The thought that counts
For a Better Slower Mother's Day. Economical, too. Cheaper just doesn't sound right. You have a week to get this together. Be thoughtful. Something to do? Something to eat? Something to use? Something to plant? Some thoughts.