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Flexible Monday: Cross & Bend

February 17, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

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 neck, shoulders, back and hips. Make them feel and function better.

Slower Sunday: The Chicken Comes First

February 16, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Then the egg. Boil the stock. Then slowly, very slowly, drizzle in the egg. Gaze into the pot. This has to be the most entertaining bowl of soup around. Press Play for a little Sunday Psychedelia. A Chinese New Year flashback.

Why guys learn to cook.
(Will you still feed me, when I’m 64?)

February 15, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

More and more older Baby Boomers are thinking about cooking for the first time in their lives. Because, well, there might not be somebody else to feed them. Right now. Or in the imaginable future. This isn't a downer. It's deep. If the kitchen is uncharted territory for you like it was for me, please click.

Walking, eating, holding hands. In Paris

February 14, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Because it's Valentine's Day. Which is reason enough to take a long, romantic walk. Somewhere. Anywhere. But if a little Paris fantasy walk might help you imagine and blaze your own trail, click and read on.

Real Men Make Quiche. From scratch.

February 13, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Less than $2.50 per serving for a rich but light breakfast, lunch, brunch or dinner. That'll impress you and anybody you share it with. Aromatic and delicious enough to seduce someone with. Valentine's Day?

Winter Vegetable Risotto

February 12, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Luscious, creamy rice with two wonderful seasonal vegetables. Parsnips and kale. Roasting in the oven while you're stirring on the stovetop. Sweet roasted parsnips and smoky flash-roasted kale. Elegant and hearty.

Kale, mushroom, garlic: Winter Pizza

February 11, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Pizza spends a few minutes in a really hot oven. So do kale chips and portobello mushrooms. A match made in the oven. A perfect winter flavor combo with a crisp pizza crust and gooey cheese.

Balanced Monday: On Your Own One Foot

February 10, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

A 3-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to stay on your feet. To train them to react fast. So when you step onto an uneven, slippery or unstable surface that makes you to begin to lose your balance - you'll immediately regain it.

Slower Sunday: Big, hot and steamy

February 9, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

I'm not talking about that Mary J. Blige half time show a few years ago. I'm talking about Poas. The old volcano everyone knows by its first name. At the center of Costa Rica. So big you could put five stadiums in its crater. A real force of nature.

Super Bowl Math: The Snack Odds

February 8, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

What are the odds you'll gain - or lose - weight during the big game? You burn about 100 calories per hour by sitting upright, chewing and talking between bites. What you're chewing makes all the difference.