My husband Greg is out taking his walk. He goes for a two mile walk every morning now. He’s stuck to the diet flawlessly, and it shows. He’s lost weight that I can see (although he says it’s only about 4 pounds), and his blood pressure has gone down, from 150/100 to 130/80. I am…
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Fifteen pounds of pears!
If you had a 15-pound box of rapidly ripening pears, what would you do with them?
The Mocha Medic
A few weeks ago Jason and I took Beth to the local fruit stand, and that’s when we found the best idea in coffee since coffee cake: As we were driving up, Jason said, “Is that a refurbished ambulance?”, and sure enough, it was. TEN KINDS OF BRILLIANT. We asked the woman how she got…
Green Goddess Hummus
One of the best ways I’ve found to get veggies, especially greens, into my diet, is to blend them into things. This works with smoothies, and it also works great with dips and spreads. While looking at Fat Free Vegan to find something yummy, I came across a recipe for something called Green Goddess Hummus,…
Tweaking the Kale Smoothie
A lot of people taste the smoothies I make and think they taste too “green”. I can handle the flavor because I’ve gotten used to it over time. But there are ways to tweak it: Make sure your fruit is very ripe. Maybe even overripe. You can toss some pretty funky bananas into those things,…
Kale smoothies FTW
I know what you’re thinking. Believe me, I do. If someone told me ten years ago that I’d someday be enjoying smoothies made from kale, I’d have told them they were a couple bulbs short of a box. But here it is, in all its considerable glory: Hollie’s Favorite Kale Smoothie 3 C cold water…
Hee hee
At dinner tonight, the kids didn’t want to eat their green beans. Admittedly they weren’t the best beans, they were from one of those microwave steam packs that seem to work great with corn but not so great with other vegetables. Still, it was either that or having nothing with our Orange Chicken (Trader Joes!)…
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