I realized with some dismay that if I contract the coronavirus and get sick, I will be doomed to eat canned chicken soup. I bought those red and white cans in abundance thinking I was wisely preparing for the worst. I see now that a daily diet of salty, flavorless chicken soup could be worse…
Frozen foods are generally high quality because the freezing process locks in nutrient values. This is especially true of fruits and vegetables when frozen at their peak ripeness. Frozen fish, while maybe not as tasty of fresh, is also high quality in terms of nutritional value. Frozen foods are cheaper too. A few days ago I…
For my friends who cannot stomach the thought of chicken sausage (delicious and flavorful), here is a more mainstream offering from my new collection of Save the Planet Recipes. It is really easy thanks to using a bottled Asian sauce. You can find several types (Sesame, Kung Pao, General Tsao’s, etc) right next to the soy…
I have been trying to figure what I can do to help stop global climate change, besides griping about it on my blog. So far, I have made a carbon budget for 2019, which will allow me to reduce my carbon footprint by 50%. It is not a huge challenge. To be honest, parts of…
Like most aging folks, I read up on nutrition and try to eat well. However, I am often perplexed about how to eat daily all the nuts, seeds, oils and fruits in the superfood category. You know the ones I mean: flax-seed meal, cranberries, olive oil, almonds, sesame seed, blueberries, sunflower seed, dark chocolate. I can…
The days of camping whenever, wherever are over for now. Today the high will be 45 degrees; tonight we get snow showers. Just wet and cold. Snow camping beckons, but not until after a large snowfall, when the skies are cobalt blue, the humidity low, and the snow a fine powder. So what does a…
We had a blizzard warning all day, but the snow fall remained light and steady. Being Friday, when I study and work on my sermon, I stayed in, lounging in sweats. The wind picked up intermittently and the lights flickered but never went off. For lunch I decided to make something from a few of…
I do not usually like processed foods. However, this caught my eye: Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Dough. I found it in the grocery cooler that has the canned biscuits. The dough has 16 grams whole grain per serving and an ingredient list that looks acceptable. The nutritional content is okay too, and I especially like the…
The eggplants are starting to come from the garden. Each year I bake large pans of eggplant parmesan and freeze it in one serving containers. I can not describe in words how good it will taste next February, in the deep, dark winter. You will have to suffice with yuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm. Cooked eggplant and the cheese…
If you could choose when you were born, what era would you pick? Some people long to be living in the carefree roaring 20s, and others in Victorian England. How about being born into the age of world exploration, mapping out trades routes on sailing ships. I know that some people long for the vibrant…