Paella plays with fire
Looks and smells like a dinner party while it's still on the grill. 15 minutes of preparation for this beautiful, aromatic, luscious flavor bomb of orange-yellow rice with shellfish, vegetables and chorizo sausage.
Autumn Pear & Lemon Olive Oil Cake
Hard to say if it's better for breakfast or dessert. Depends if you want ice cream with it. Very intense lemon flavor makes it vibrant. Seasonal fresh pears give it a mellow sweetness. Olive oil keeps it moist, light and healthy. Ten minutes to prepare.
Pork: Chop of the Season
The season for sweet-savory vegetable-and-fruit dishes make the mild-flavored meat come alive. Big, bright flavors cut through its richness. Good timing: I made pork chops yesterday. My first time. So good. So easy. When you do it this Way.
Naked Exercise #10: Reverse Planks
Stripped down. No equipment. No exercise balls, no balance boards, no weights. Strengthen your shoulders, triceps, quadriceps and back and abdominal muscles. In a minute or two. Not just Better and Cheaper. Better and Free. Press Play.
Slower Sunday: Above the tree line
Sometimes you hike for miles, all uphill, and you can't see the forest for the trees. Or the range for the mountains. So you trust your trail. To get you above it all. Where it all becomes clear. What a refreshing perspective.
Sleep-Walking
I guess that's one way to burn a few extra calories without taking time from our busy daytime schedules. But getting a little more sleep is a much Better Way to maintain or reduce your weight and your Body Mass Index (BMI). Really. Click and consider the evidence.
The Towering Walk That Ate Tuscany
Great views from the tower tops. Actually, great views from the bottom, too. Where the eating is. In Sienna. And in San Gimignano. Five miles. Three towers. 1,000 stairs. 1,500 calories. And you get to eat and burn them in Italy.
80 Ways: Basil Pesto. Now’s the time.
80 recipes from traditional healthy cuisines around the world. Centuries ago, somewhere in Italy, probably Liguria, someone took a mortar and pestle to fresh basil and olive oil. Which evolved into one of the tastiest zero Glycemic Load sauces in the world. Make some now, freeze it, taste summer all winter.
Happy Kale Day: tasty in soffrito
It's seasonally abundant, cheap and everywhere right now. The sweetness of the caramelized soffrito vegetables is great with the deep, dark kale flavor. A great Way to get to know this unusually flavorful green. On National Kale Day!
Seasonal Sliders: Beetburgers
20 cents for the best hors d'oeuvre at the party. The sweetness of roasted beets with tart, spicy mustard-lemon dressing on warm, soft sugarless shortcake. A slider packed with Vitamins B and C and a lot of minerals but very few calories.