Ripe Now: Striped Beet Salad
A delicious and beautiful vegetable course. Takes: less than ten minutes and two dollars. Gives: two huge portions or four smaller side portions; a lot of vitamins B and C and dietary fiber.
Better Cheaper Stronger: Shoulder Press
We've been strengthening your arm and chest muscles. Now we'll work on your shoulders with some Alternating Shoulder Presses. No bench, no barbell. Just a resistance tube or a couple of small hand weights. I can tell you feel stronger just thinking about it.
Slower Sunday Colors
The leaves are starting to show those washed out, late summer army camouflage colors. Better washed out than fallen, I guess. But not as good as bright and colorful. Press Play. Slow Forward to a brilliant start for a Sunday.
Velvet Butter Sage Sauce
Delicious. Takes about three minutes. The ingredients: water, butter, sage (or any other fresh herb). Grow your own herbs, don't use too much butter - it's Cheap. It's Better than any melted butter thing you've ever done.
The Walk That Ate New York, Part 2
Wherever you are, you can make a great, all-day Exercising & Eating Extravaganza where you burn way more calories than you consume. Do it on a sunny day and get some free Vitamin D. If you're in New York, try my 6- or 14-mile trail.
Apple-a-Day: Apple-Cheddar Pizza Pie
I got a huge bag of apples in my CSA farm share this week, so I'm making an Apple-Cheddar Pizza. Apples are everywhere now - at the seasonal peak flavors and seasonal low prices. Hit the Farmers Market, get some apples and try this for brunch. Or breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner.
Ripe and tasty: squash in soffrito
Squash is everywhere and really cheap right now. Acorn squash, butternut squash, Hubbards, pumpkins. All very cool looking. Especially the Delicata, and it's easy to peel. Even easier to cook if you made a batch of soffrito.
Better Cheaper Stronger: Chest Press
We've worked on your biceps with the Curl; your triceps with the overhead extension. Now let's look at your chest. Here's a standing Chest Press for you. No bench, no barbell. Just a resistance tube or a couple of small hand weights. I can tell you feel stronger just thinking about it.
Slower Sunday: Naturalize
I love my tulips and daffodils. And I'm always relieved and delighted when the first crocuses and grape hyacinths pop up, sometimes in the snow. But the irises, they're really fascinating. So many little details in each flower. I can just sit and stare. So press Play and stare for a minute. It's Sunday. Make believe.