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Walking & Eating in Beijing

January 31, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Could be an all-day 26-mile hike. Could be a 4-mile spin around the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Could walk a mile inside the Farmers Market or through 4,000 cypress trees to get to Heaven. Whichever way you turn, this is a delicious way to see the sights while you burn way more calories than you consume.

Skinny Egg Rolls

January 30, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Not an authentic egg roll. More like a really thin egg pancake wrapped tightly around quickly sauteed vegetables. Do it all in one pan in five minutes. Which leaves plenty of time to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Not Spare Ribs

January 29, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Intensely fragrant, sweet and spicy. It's the powdered mustard, ginger and cinnamon. And the fennel and anise seeds. The opposite of spare ribs. Rich ribs. Chinese Short Ribs for the Lunar New Year.

Jasmine Rice for the Year of the Snake

January 28, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Today's the day for this one-pan jasmine rice and vegetables preparation. You do next to nothing. Cook the vegetables right in the pan with the grains. It's all in the timing. Happy Chinese New Year.

Stronger Monday: Keeping the resolution

January 27, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Because it's good to be a little stronger. So it's easier to pick up packages and climb mountains. And because I made a resolution to help you find the easiest Ways to feel better and stronger every day. Not like Arnold. Just stronger than you are now.

Slower Sunday: Red, white & blue winter

January 26, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Here in Bryce Canyon, the eyes have it. And the canyon has you. Press Play. Give your eyes a minute.

Banana Curry Fish. My Rainforest Fave.

January 25, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Less than 50 cents per serving for the spectacularly delicious banana curry. Intensely flavorful and the butter makes it feel luxurious in your mouth. The lime is bright. The mustard adds a little heat. What a mouthful. And that's before you get to the fish.

The Walk That Ate Positano

January 24, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

A very beautiful and very vertical town. Where the smallest streets are actually staircases. Where you walk up an appetite on the Way to every ristorante. Burn more calories than you swallow in this tiny hill town on Italy's Amalfi coast.

The good, the bad and the ramen

January 23, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Ingredient cost for a week's worth of pungent and deeply delicious Asian sauce base: about $3. Make it in 5 minutes. Use it for the next five days with noodle soup, stir fry, fish, meat and egg dishes. A vegetable-filled ramen for $2/person. A week's worth of superior dinners for $15/person.

This cheap never looked this good.

January 22, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Polenta-Portobello Pizza. For a beautiful dish, this has to be the easiest, quickest, cheapest thing going. Delicious, too. Whole grain corn and a big, meaty mushroom. Required skills: stirring, slicing. Not much of either.