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.
Confluence in The Canyonlands
Happy National Parks Week. Now walk a trail to one of the most extraordinary views on the planet. Two huge rivers merging. At a point where they've cut deep, sharp canyons. What you see is what you get - after 20 million years of erosion. Take a walk to a 3D geology lesson.
Acadia National Park. Your Summer Vacation.
Happy National Parks Week. Here in Maine, USA every one of Acadia National Park's dozens of oceanside and mountainside trails is yours for the walking. Like the one to the summit of Sargent Mountain. Seven scenic miles up and back down.
Delicate Arch: A Delicate Balance
A short trail through an exotic landscape to a stone arch that defies gravity. It's The Delicate Arch in Arches National Park. Less than two miles. 500 calories round trip.
Balanced Monday: DIY Sanskrit
A 1-minute exercise that really makes you aware of the Way you use your core muscles to stabilize and balance yourself. To maintain your center of balance when your arms and legs are going their own ways. Here's a great Way to strengthen and stretch all those muscles.
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.
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.