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Great Balls of Exercise: Figure 8s

January 23, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Stretch and strengthen your core, back and leg muscles while you stand and twist. Strengthen your shoulder and chest muscles by squeezing this really big exercise ball between your hands. You use many, many muscles. Very time-efficient. Burns calories faster. Fun, too.

Slower Sunday: Standing room only

January 22, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

A two-minute vacation. Front row, standing room only. Press Play. Eyes wide open. Mind wide open. Find the right trail. Happy Sunday.

Pork Fried Rice. Hold the rice. Pork optional.

January 21, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Pork optional. As crunchy and tasty as any greasy Chinese take-out. But Way Better. A cool way to prepare whole-grain, high-protein farro. And crisp, healthful broccoli and peppers. Four dollars for an intensely flavorful, fresh and satisfying meal.

Happy New Year on The Great Wall

January 20, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

This Year of the Rabbit is your lucky year. Your second chance to make a healthy New Year Resolution to Be Better Outdoors. I can't think of a Better Way to celebrate the Chinese New Year than a Great Hike on the Great Wall. Even if it's just a great daydream while you take the sidewalk.

Low Country High Pleasure: Shrimp & Grits

January 19, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Wins the Pleasure Per Calorie Contest. Very High Pleasure. And surprisingly Low Glycemic Load. Sweet, creamy whole grain corn. Deeply, darkly rich sauce. Succulent, barely crisped shrimp. Do your mouth a big favor and make this.

Magic Mushroom Risotto

January 18, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Rice and mushrooms so aroma- and flavor-enriched by a simple mushroom stock that you have a heightened sense of mushroom-ness. No drugs, just your common creminis and shiitakes. Deeply delicious, emphatically aromatic. Luscious, elegant and hearty at the same time.

Liquid Mushroom

January 17, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Free soup. A hot, aromatic, deeply delicious improvement for a cold winter day. It's all in the mushroom stock you make by simmering leftover mushroom stems in a pot of water for a light, clear stock with a super-concentrated fragrance and flavor of mushroom.

Great Balls of Exercise: Leg Extensions

January 16, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

Another bouncy exercise. But not too bouncy. The Ball is unstable. It rolls. Unless you exert force to keep it in place. Which means you engage many large and small muscles. Very time-efficient. Comfy and fun. And it burns more calories.

Slower Sunday: Up the stream

January 15, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

As far as you can go until you're here. I'd walk four miles to see this any time. And the other four miles to get back.

4 degrees, -18 windchill. Hot Lemon?

January 14, 2023
Dick Sandhaus

That's the question at breakfast every morning ... if you're in Nepal. If you're in North America this week, it's the answer. Easily habit-forming. Great for recharging your immune system. A very good habit at this time of year.