Your Monday #34: Push! Up!
Good news: all you need is frequent exercise to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Today comes with a simple, one-minute Way to increase your strength. This month: your entire upper body.
Tomato Soup. Late Summer. In Spain.
You don't have to be in Spain to find perfectly ripe late summer tomatoes. But you can sprinkle a dash of Spain into your soup. 80 cents per bowl of greatness that's got 43% of your day's Vitamin C, 82% of your Vitamin A and a near-zero Glycemic Load.
The Walk That Ate Denver
A wonderful and weird Walk. Wonderful because it's a great walking and eating city. Weird because it's the Mile High City, so you may feel like you're taking a high elevation hike when you're strolling the sidewalks with direct views of the Rocky Mountains.
Cherry Tomato-Basil Pesto Tart
Summer's back already. And it's in my mouth. In every bite of a tart that's the easiest best-tasting thing I've tasted in months. Sounds simple because it is. But it's so much more flavorful, interesting and satisfying than you'd expect.
Salsa Verde CSA
A deeply delicious salsa that elevates fish, chicken, vegetable and egg dishes to almost authentic Mexican masterpieces. About $3 and 20 minutes for 20 ounces of greatness.
Flash-Bake Those Leaves: Radicchio Pizza
A big salad posing as a pizza. A huge mound of exceptionally fresh, dark red, flash-baked radicchio on a hot, fresh pizza crust. Delicious. Another example of pizza crust as the perfect platform for everything fresh and tasty. Dinner for two for $2.
Your Monday #33: Hamstrung
A 2-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to balance yourself and stay on your feet - while you stretch and strengthen your hamstrings. Pretty great for just two minutes.
Watermelon, Mint & Lime: Soda for adults
Have a drink. Not a soft drink. Not a hard drink. A just right drink. For a summer afternoon when you don't want alcohol and shouldn't give in to a sugar- or chemical-laced can of soda.