I hope those of you who celebrated the July 4 Independence Day holiday had a great one! There is still one more day to this fabulous long weekend. If many of you are like me, I love holidays! It’s a time to catch up with my children, reconnect with my husband, check-in with extended family [...]
Got milk? While there is debate out there (i.e. T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study – good read if you haven’t yet) about cow’s milk and its benefits and dangers, a lot of us drink milk or at least give it to our children. But do you know where your milk comes from? If you [...]
We are blessed with two beautiful kids. We both work full time and like all parents try our best to be as involved with our kids’ educational development and values. Growing up no one taught at school about healthy eating and having a well balanced perspective on my body. Well, culturally, Tibetans prefer if you [...]
One of the easiest, quickest snacks – shrimp, scrambled eggs, green onions on toast. YUM.
Source: eCrater “I’m Popeye the Sailor Man I live in a frying pan I turn on the gas And burn off my…” Oh wait, sorry, that was the naughty playground version. Most of us remember Popeye and his loyal use of spinach in lieu of modern day protein shakes to pump up his famous forearms [...]
Pan, pao, bao, pav…whether Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, India, the word for bread seems similar across cultures and languages. Most cultures have some sort of bread – flatbreads, buns, baguettes – and breaking bread is not an unfamiliar term. You eat together, you are no longer strangers. Indian breads are numerous and they also vary [...]
There’s nothing like the smell of the buttery box of freshly-popped popcorn that you swear you won’t buy but then you do and proceed to eat half of it before the previews are over at the movie theatre. Every afternoon, someone in my office pops a bag of Orville Redenbacher’s and boy, it smells good. [...]
When it’s an average of 106F and the sun is full every day…all day…and the only respite is around midnight when the temperature drops to a balmy 95F, what else can you do but eat ice cream? I have not done any form of exercise in four weeks nor do I pretend. I sweat by [...]
I hadn’t realized how ‘strange’ (even disturbing) some of our meals were to folks until I started taking them to school for lunch. My experience taking lunch to school might not have been so traumatic if 1) my food hadn’t regularly infused the lunchroom with its…’aroma’ (primarily garlic, ginger and hot pepper) and 2) if [...]
Did I get you with the title? Hot and bothered? He, he. In addition to the preschooler whose second cousin is the Tasmanian Devil, I have a baby, under the age of 1. Technically, she isn’t supposed to eat dairy products, but we got a little confession to make. Baby loves herself some ICE CREAM [...]
