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Got 10 minutes? For your blood pressure?

November 23, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

3 10-minute walks each day can make a significant contribution to lowering your blood pressure. Just brisk walking - no running - does the trick. If you don't have a dog, or if getting outside for three walks a day just doesn't work for you, here are some indoor options.

A Walk Through The Thanksgiving Math

November 22, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

Before you finalize your Thanksgiving meal planning, let's do a little preventive math. Add up those future calories. And subtract a future walk's worth of calorie-burning.

Sweet Potato Pie

November 21, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

Just make it. It's great. It's cheap. It's easy. The only real decision is how to serve it. Turkey sidekick or dessert? No Better Way to eat a sweet potato. Thanksgiving Day or Any Day.

Polenta Dressing: Think outside the bird

November 20, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

Dressing. Not stuffing. Cook it separately. Not inside the turkey. So good you might think, who needs the turkey? Here's a perfectly moist and deeply flavorful savory dressing with a luscious whole grain corn polenta base.

Ginger-Spiked Cranberry Relish

November 19, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

Four ingredients. Four minutes of preparation. For a powerful, intense condiment that'll light up your turkey and wake up your mouth. Start with just a little. That's all it takes to beautify and amplify Thanksgiving dinner.

Your Monday #43: 24/7 Flexibility

November 18, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

Today's Way is all about your flexibility. Total flexibility from a 10-minute stretching routine that combines simple, gentle Ways to keep you loose and comfortable all day.

Slower Sunday: Mellow Yellow

November 17, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

No yellow pants or cars for me. No yellow iPhone cases. But there is one thing that's great in yellow. Bright without an edge. Warm even when the air is brisk. Have a good Sunday. In your favorite color.

Back to BCS Basics: Polenta

November 16, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

It's delicious. It's cheap and easy. It's a real, whole and complete food. All good, no bad. If pasta or rice is your only answer to "what goes with everything?", polenta's a whole new world to put in your mouth.

Phelps Lake: Beautiful All Around

November 15, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

All the Way around. Unobstructed views of this spectacularly beautiful alpine lake almost all the Way around it. Partial views through beautiful trees the rest of the Way.

Tartiflette: hike before and after

November 14, 2024
Dick Sandhaus

My first taste of this ridiculously delicious and satisfying Alpine specialty was in the middle of a 10-mile hike at a mountainside refuge high in the French Alps. Now that I've made it at home, I can tell you that you don't have to be in the Alps to love it. I can also tell you that it's probably a good idea to walk a few miles before and/or after you enjoy it. Because this is, well, not a light dish.