Charred Sweet Pepper Salad
Peppers everywhere. Every color, size and shape. Good supply, low prices. If you're firing up the grill this weekend, here's a light and really flavorful salad that goes with just about everything.
Your Monday #30: Knees up. Both. At once.
Today's Way is a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. C'mon, by the time you finish reading this Way, you'll probably finish today's healthy exercise.
Slower Sunday: Small Bites
I heard if you take small bites and chew slowly - you'll actually eat less. I told them, too. Works for everybody, huh?
Mint-Lemon Pudding Cake: Perfect Now
Big, refreshing, mouth-filling flavor. Not too tart or sweet. Amazingly light but luxurious and rich. Your first bite seems completely familiar and completely new. Part airy, moist cake. Part silky light pudding. Best summer dessert I've had in a very long time.
Sonoma Mountain: Cost-Benefit Analysis
Through dense forests of redwoods, live oaks, big-leaf maples, Douglas firs and madrones. You're in cool, green shade all the Way to the top. Then you're in golden grasses and California sun with magnificent views up and down the Valley.
My Other Summer Sandwich: Spicy Tofu
A shockingly delicious vegan summer meal-in-a-sandwich. A slightly spicy slab of baked tofu on sesame-peanut sauce-slathered bread with greens and tomato. Hugely flavorful and satisfying. There's so much going on in each bite that your whole mouth lights up.
Saucy Summer Skirt Steak Tacos
Big flavor bang for the buck. Twice the steak and half the price of a Taco Bell. Perfect example of Better is Cheaper. Deeply flavorful steak. Rich but light sauce. Light, bright lime-sauteed onions. For one dollar.
Tomato Pudding Cake
I'm happy to eat my tomatoes straight. Maybe a little salt and olive oil. But for a dish that's not "just" a sliced tomato, this is wonderful in your mouth. The perfect balance of sweet and tart from the perfect tomato. With the rich, light feel of a soufflé.
Your Monday #29: A Strong Upper Back
Good news: all you need is frequent exercise to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Today's Wa is a simple, one-minute Way to increase your upper back strength.
Slower Sunday: By any other name, big
If size matters more than smell, the Rose of Sharon takes the prize. Just look at it. Go on. Stare. My hibiscus is your hibiscus. Press Play. Beautiful Way to start Sunday.