Time and Space in Los Angeles
Backbone Trail up to Castro Peak. Back down to the Malibu beaches. Walk 15 miles. Burn 1,800 calories - Way more than you (should) eat at Coogie's and Duke's.
Purple Pizza Eater
The pizza's purple comes from Farmers Market-fresh and beautiful summer eggplant, sweet purple peppers and vibrant opal basil. A farm-to-pizza stone pie that proves once again that a pizza crust is the perfect platform for everything fresh and delicious.
Sip Your Spinach
Eye-popping green. Popeye Spinach Soup. Smooth. Light. Deeply flavorful. Refreshing whether you sip it hot, cold or anywhere in-between. $1.25 for a huge bowl with 100% of your daily Vitamin A, 50% of your Vitamin C and a near-zero Glycemic Load.
Cool-looking Chioggia Beet Chips
Cheap and easy. Better looking. Really tasty. Near zero calories. But hard to eat Slower.
Your Monday #31: Happy Hamstrings
Let's start the week loose. Comfortable. Flexible. Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today's Way'll relax and stretch your hamstrings. Make them feel and function better.
Slower Sunday. But Steady.
The Triathlon's a killer. You swim a mile. You run 6. Everything in moderation. Like that study, about how you live longer if you run regularly. And how the slower runners, the joggers, live even longer than the fast runners. Slow but steady. Press Play. See the Way.
Peach-Blueberry Galette. I had to do it.
Start with a small slice. Because you'll have a second no matter the size of the first. Fair chance you'll embarrass yourself with a third. And you won't want to brush your teeth for at least 24 hours. So easy to make you should probably just buy extra now for the next one.
Monument Mountain. Above Devil’s Pulpit.
All around the Northern Hemisphere, this is a wonderful, colorful time for hiking and walking. You should do some. Like Monument Mountain. A moderate 3-mile walk in the woods to views across tens of miles of western Massachusetts hills and valleys getting ready to turn more than fifty shades of red, orange and yellow.
Spicy & Minty Summer Squash Soup
The air is hot. I'm cool. Because I just had a bowl of this deeply flavorful and totally refreshing chilled soup. It's light, but it's substantial. It packs a little heat, but it's cooling. Make a big batch and be cool for days.
Beet Green Tart. Waste not, want not.
An earthy, bright, herbaceous vegetable filling from something you might have thrown away. In a flaky, buttery luxury-in-your-mouth tart shell from your leftover homemade pie crust. Your home smells like a very good bakery. Your tart costs 25 cents.