Oxymoron.New ad campaigns are coming in January. They will be showing us the farmer that cares about the potato. The beautiful golden fields of the American dream. Fast food is industrial farming, it’s what has taken over this country. The ad campaigns are still doing whatever it takes to get people to buy their products. Don’t get… Continue reading Healthy Fast Food
I’ve written about this before, but the soothing effect of a personal ritual is…priceless. I’m working a temp job at the moment, then I had an interview afterwards. The interview was much more than I expected; I had to answer a lot of questions. Hopefully it went well. At the end of the day, I was… Continue reading Little Rituals…Priceless
Once, back in the day, my girl-friend, Jeanine, and I were at work, talking about cheap lunches. For me it was PBJ or pasta leftovers. If worse came to worse, I had a cup-o-noodles in my desk drawer. No, no, no, she told me. “I have the best cheap lunch and its healthy and you’re full”.… Continue reading Good Eating Habits
If you look over to the right of this post, you will see my book. My little book, that I love so much. No, its not a cookbook, and this is not a recipe site. It is more of a kitchen coaching book. It is meant to inspire you into action. Not only for the… Continue reading My Little Book
Recipes have been handed down for generations. Measurements have changed, we’ve become more accurate and our culinary society has streamlined the recipe we know today. Pictures are something the next generation will receive with their recipe books, possibly on discs. If you are lucky enough, you may have acquired a beautiful old hand-written, food stained… Continue reading Food is our Identity
From SNAP there is SNAP Ed. Anyone who has gone from a good salary job to being on SNAP, has had not only their wallet and ego deflated, but their gourmet foodie lifestyle has withered. This link has some very useful information for buying healthy food, wisely and economically. http://snap.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=15&tax_level=4&tax_subject=261&topic_id=1243&level3_id=6213&level4_id=10046 There is an abundance of… Continue reading Budgeting
My brother actually told me this story. He had a teacher that started the class by saying that they got into their cars, and didn’t put on seat belts. Drove down the street, throwing trash out of the car, and no one stopped them. And when their trash was full at home, they put the… Continue reading We Learn From Experience
Think of me as your coach. I am here to coach you in your kitchen. To teach , inspire and help you gain the atmosphere of success in your kitchen. I want you to cook, and I want you to feel successful at it. Let’s talk about Boiling Water. It’s the simplest thing to do… Continue reading Your Kitchen Coach…
http://www.snaptohealth.org is a new interactive website made to improve the nutrition and health of Americans enrolled in SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This program is something that is long overdue and very much welcomed! The site offers resources to people receiving SNAP; it is not just about getting and how much, it offers ways… Continue reading SNAP to Health
This will be a sci-fi horror movie, with a Twilight Zone twist.Imagine a world where there are no fast food chains. Driving home at the end of the day, there are small markets, advertising fresh fruit, vegetables, meats, grains are in big barrels to scoop yourself. Imagine this would be where your meals came from.… Continue reading Fear of the Inconvenient
When Ralphie’s teacher asked her class to a write a theme: What I Want For Christmas, Ralphie was beside himself to write about his Red Rider BB Gun. Oh, the hero he could be once he had it.If only to be that age again, when something means so much to your being to have; to… Continue reading My Christmas Theme
I have been the world’s worst Procrastinator these days. Sorry, the Artisan Gingerbread House was supposed to be a 3-part series, and I have been putting it off lately. It is something I really do enjoy doing, and just haven’t been into it. The gist of it is to now get it put together and… Continue reading Artisan Gingerbread House – Part 3
I just posted this to the Huffington Post:When I was growing up, I spent a very short period of time in a small town in southern Missouri. 5th and 6th grades shared a room, there were about 11 of us total. Every morning when we walked into school, we could smell what was cooking for… Continue reading School Lunch from the Lunch Ladies
Have you ever noticed the taste difference between an artificial flavor and a natural flavor? By natural, I mean the actual whole food. The taste of the artificial is far more pronounced and lingering than the original natural food. It’s no wonder getting kids to eat right is a tough chore on parents. Real fruit is… Continue reading The Lost Art of Cooking?
Inspired Home Cooking 