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.
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.