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Going Green (Part 1)
When the New Year began, I decided to start a food journal. I hear it’s an effective way to manage your weight. My weight needs to be managed. As I “mature” in years, it’s becoming apparent that I can’t get away with the snackalicious diet I’m accustomed to. There are consequences for eating ice cream in the middle of the night, potato chips whenever I pass the pantry and drinking Starbucks just because. Man! I never thought this would ever happen to me. I used to scoff when I heard women say: “I can’t eat that donut,” or “Oooh I’m gonna pass on dessert, it goes straight to my hips!” I…
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Roasting, Braising and Stuffing, Oh my!
These are roasted vegetables. Carrots, onions, broccoli and red potatoes are lightly seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic, then tossed in a bit of olive oil and plucked from the oven after about 20 minutes on 425. These are succulent pieces of chicken breast that have been stuffed, then sliced. We crammed a healthly portion of spinach and asiago cheese inside. The outside we coated with grated parmesan and seared on the stove before finishing them in the oven. These are my signature mashed sweet potatoes and pork tenderloin. They’re good. I mean stop-talking-to-me-while-I-eat-this good. Here it is again from another angle. It’s my go-to entertaining meal. I taught my students how…
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Broccoli Trees
Children are so amusing. My 2-year-old makes me laugh on a daily basis. It’s her genuine and uncensored remarks about the world that are so refreshing, true and downright funny. At the very least, her interpretations are cute. For instance, she likes broccoli. When I roast it she picks it up with her fingers and chomps it down. Initially, I would chop hers down into pieces small enough for her load onto her tiny toddler utensils, then she noticed the pieces on my plate. So without asking she began to grab florets off my plate. “Mmmm, I like dat trees!”
