A friend called me for advice about a road trip (on a motorcycle) to and through our public lands – National Parks, Forests, and Monuments. He is based in Deming, NM and wants to travel north, through the western states. He wanted to know some of my favorite back roads and also about how to take…
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…
Soybeans are complicated. At one time, they were simply a small bean that contained lots of protein and other nutrients. Farmers in Asia domesticated the bean in 1100 BC, and it contributed to their healthy diet (tofu, tempeh, etc). The U.S. is now a major producer of soybeans; in fact, it is the second largest crop behind…
I have referred to the Climate Change Conference in Poland several times. I want to clarify just who that group is and also share what I know about the other big players on the global climate change stage. The Poland conference was a UN meeting for mostly governmental policy makers. The agenda is to have…
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…
Please check out this article about the NAACP boycott of Facebook. I think it is important to support this cause so I am signing off FB myself for the week!
Cooking healthy meals was once focused on shopping seasonally, peeling foods with lots of pesticides (apples, potatoes), avoiding too many processed foods, and eating from each category on the USDA food pyramid. Now, I have to think about the carbon footprint of each food if I want to do my part to stop global warming. I…
Seattle has the third largest homeless population nationwide. I have also seen stats that the State of Washington is the worst state, overall. Most homeless people are near the heavily populated area along I-5 and in Spokane. I have walked by homeless tents in Seattle and driven by homeless people living in Spokane parks. I…
I wrote not long ago that I really needed a bigger dehumidifier. I had a tiny, table-top unit that I bought a few years ago when I stayed in coastal Alabama. The air humidity here (Olympic Peninsula, WA) is phenomenal, and now we are in the winter rainy season. Condensation forms on all the windows…
I have been pudgy for about 20 years, starting when I become a full-fledged emotional eater due to events in my life that I have written about recently. Emotional eating is a habit I learned from my mom and other family. To make things worse, we are genetically-predisposed to fatness, although that does not mean one…