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Naked Exercise #8: Swimming

September 25, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Stripped down. No equipment. Swimming without a pool. Without water. But with a lot of the exercise benefits of real swimming. Just you and the floor. Great for strengthening your lower back. Not just Better and Cheaper. Better and Free.

Slower Sunday: The Water Prescription

September 24, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Take one flowing stream and a quiet lake; call me in the morning. I think you'll feel better. Really. Press Play for a dose.

Have your peach and eat it, too. Chutney

September 23, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

30 minutes today gives your tongue months of pleasure. Starting 30 minutes from now. C'mon, a few minutes of slicing and chopping + 10 minutes of stirring = Peach Chutney all Fall and Winter. Bright, sweet, tart, spicy and mellow. All at once.

Istanbul: Big walk, small plates

September 22, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

A one-day walking and eating tour through seventeen centuries at the border of Europe and Asia and the Middle East. See and eat the former Constantinople's greatest hits and burn more calories than you consume. A calorie-free taste of the town.

80 Ways: Tagine: Moroccan Chicken Stew

September 21, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Easy and exotic. Even when you use a big old regular pot on your stove instead of the traditional terra cotta cooker. It's the spices. They turn a simple stovetop stew into a wildly fragrant cool-weather feast.n

Farmers Market Gratin

September 20, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

A luscious, impressive vegetable course featuring some of the season's greatest hits. You'll be amazed you made it yourself. Easily. If you love these vegetables, you'll love them even more. If you're a cauliflower and/or broccoli denier, this'll convert you to a lover.

Warm Red Salad: Cabbage & Apple

September 19, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

A two-ingredient, savory-sweet, fragrant and almost luscious vegetable-fruit dish that's a perfect flavor combination right now. While the seasonal ingredients are ripe, just-picked, abundant and cheap. Too good and too easy not to try.

Naked Exercise #7: Skating

September 18, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Stripped down. No equipment. No skates. No ice. Great for lower body strength and muscle tone. And a terrific balance exercise, too. Not just Better and Cheaper. Better and Free. All you need's a floor.

Slower Sunday: Wild

September 17, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Flowers. Miles and miles of them. Seeing is believing. C'mon, Press Play.

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker. Then you saw them, now you don’t

September 16, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Then you saw them, now you don't. I guess they were making their last stand when I was a little kid in the early 1950s. In street-side storefronts. You looked in to see how humans used their hands to make food from basic, raw ingredients. Where'd they go?