Slower Sunday: Daylight Saving
Now that you're wide awake, let's tackle one of the big issues of the day. Daylight savings. Or, maybe a Better Way to think about it: saving daylight. Ask not how daylight can save you. Ask how you can save daylight.
Farro “Stew”. Chase the chill away.
Close your eyes and inhale. You think it's beef stew. Open your eyes and smile because you've got a deeply delicious and aromatic dish that puts more whole grains and vegetables in your diet and lets you reduce your meat consumption.
In Awe In Fairlyand
New clinical research links awe to good health. If something's awesome enough to give you goose bumps, it's good for you. I just hiked Bryce Canyon National Park and got an overdose of awe. So let me share some with you.
Coq au vin: Close enough for Stew Week
Whether or not it's a stew, it's aromatic, herbaceous, smoky, tender organic chicken in a deep, dark, rich wine sauce thick with mushrooms and onions. Totally luscious and satisfying. Just 40 minutes on your stovetop. Just $4 per serving.
Fragrant Lamb Stew for Stew Week
Earthy, sweet, tangy, tart, herbaceous and spicy all at once. Totally luscious and satisfying. It warms up the kitchen, it warms up the house. When it's miserable outdoors, this stew makes it wonderful indoors.
Stew Week: Boeuf Bourguignonne
When it's miserable outdoors, make it wonderful indoors. Warm up your kitchen with a highly aromatic humidifier. Boeuf a la Bourguignonne. Beef braised in a rich wine sauce until it's beyond tender and into the zone of melting.
Your Monday #9: Look ma, no chair
Like all first-Mondays-of-the-month, today's comes with a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. Get up! C'mon, you can read standing up. By the time you finish reading this Way, you're done with the first rep of today's healthy exercise.
Slower Sunday: When you’ve seen one
When you've seen one waterfall, you want to see them all. Don't you? Want to see this one? I hiked 13 miles to see it. You can just Press Play. Happy Sunday.
Boardwalk to Heaven. And a High Swamp
4,000' above the Pacific Ocean, right on top of Kauai's Waimea Canyon. The highest swamp in the world. Eight miles out and back. Strangest, and maybe the coolest, trail I've ever hiked. The Alaka'i Swamp Trail. You have to see the photos.
Don’t Just Do Something
Sit there. And think about what you might do with your extra day. An extra sunrise and sunset. Twelve hours in between. Press Play. C'mon. The e-mail can wait. Happy Leap Year.