You can usually tell when I've done a serious resistance training or interval training workout by the smoothie that shows up on my daily photo collage. There are the odd days when I just can't manage a smoothie afterwards and make do with...
Cafe Gratitude has just opened up in Santa Cruz, and I met a friend there for lunch Wednesday. Delicious food! And what a bonanza for my friend who is currently on an elimination diet and can't have dairy or wheat. I do find the names a...
After a workshop is over I am often left with cheese, bread, eggs, and vegetables - just the ingredients for making a savory bread pudding (also known as bread souffle). I use the recipe as a framework for whatever vegetables I happen to...
The 4 day workshop ended Sunday, and the last participant flew away home today. The house is clean, and we're still eating the food leftover from the meals we offered. I had the last of the Banana Oat Chocolate Chip Hemp Protein Bars...
The fresh produce we provide for the workshop is beautiful all by itself, but the platters that Josie, my assistant, puts together are works of art. The oatmeal nut scones are not really very scone-like - but they are tasty, though not...
The second day of our supervision/workshop with Stephen Gilligan went very well, and ended with a lovely dinner, conversation, and singing before bed. The dinner menu: Salmon Algiers Couscous with Chickpeas Salad Plum Crumble with Ice...
I offer many choices at meals for workshops, so the plates I created here were my own individual choices. The main dinner menu: Enchiladas Negras Quinoa with Latin Flavors Salad Flourless Poppy Seed Cake
Baked a few more breakfast goodies before I left for the farmer's market to get the fresh produce to feed 17 of us for 4 days. Cooked up a frittata and salad for the 4 folks who arrived tonight, with vegetable chopping help from the first...
As I am no longer posting these photo collages on the web community that has been my fitness home for the past 3 years, I am moving my energies to this blog as my primary concern. Today I will catch up on the photos of the past 4 days,...
I had a request on Facebook for healthy salad dressing recipes - olive oil with vinegar and spices is a great beginning, but there are so many possibilities! One of my favorite "dressings" is about 1/4 cup of Trader Joe's papaya-mango...
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