I found this article while browsing over coffee. I think it's fabulous! Let's see if I can make the link work.
http://blog.zisboombah.com/2011/04/19/10-ways-to-make-your-kid-fat/
(nope, but I'll keep woking on it. :-) )
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Back in the Saddle
Well, it's been over a year since I posted on my orphan blog. I've thought about it from time to time, but life always seemed to get in the way. Imagine.
I've made a lot of personal changes in the past year. Due to surgery, I can no longer eat "normal" quantities at a time. I look back on my beginning bento attempts and think they would last me a few days now! For a while, this meant that my culinary adventures went by the wayside. I'm glad to say I've rediscovered my love for cooking and am back with enthusiasm. I'm also back significantly "greener" than I was before. I've done a lot of reading while I've been away. (Food, Inc was my initial catalyst; I've since gone on to Pollan and numerous other sources.) The more I learn, the more I'm convinced that almost everything I believed about what made one's diet "healthy" was, at best, misguided. It's late, so I'm not going to get on my newly discovered soapbox in this post...suffice to say that I now make a conscious effort to eat locally, sustainably, and as organic as possible. I believe my family's short-term and long-term health are better for it (as is my conscience).
I'm afraid I've fallen off the exercise wagon, but it's one of my goals to get back into the habit before school starts. I would ultimately like to get up to four good hours per week. I think that's reasonable...now I just need to listen to the Nike commercial and do it.
Alright, that's enough for one night. I'm making a new baby artichoke recipe tomorrow. I'll try to post the results so that this blog can get moving toward where I'd like it to go. Baby steps, baby steps...
I've made a lot of personal changes in the past year. Due to surgery, I can no longer eat "normal" quantities at a time. I look back on my beginning bento attempts and think they would last me a few days now! For a while, this meant that my culinary adventures went by the wayside. I'm glad to say I've rediscovered my love for cooking and am back with enthusiasm. I'm also back significantly "greener" than I was before. I've done a lot of reading while I've been away. (Food, Inc was my initial catalyst; I've since gone on to Pollan and numerous other sources.) The more I learn, the more I'm convinced that almost everything I believed about what made one's diet "healthy" was, at best, misguided. It's late, so I'm not going to get on my newly discovered soapbox in this post...suffice to say that I now make a conscious effort to eat locally, sustainably, and as organic as possible. I believe my family's short-term and long-term health are better for it (as is my conscience).
I'm afraid I've fallen off the exercise wagon, but it's one of my goals to get back into the habit before school starts. I would ultimately like to get up to four good hours per week. I think that's reasonable...now I just need to listen to the Nike commercial and do it.
Alright, that's enough for one night. I'm making a new baby artichoke recipe tomorrow. I'll try to post the results so that this blog can get moving toward where I'd like it to go. Baby steps, baby steps...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
4-13-10
4-13-10
Originally uploaded by Everyday Joan
A little victory for today - I managed to haul myself out of bed before six so that I could start my day with a good breakfast, pack healthy lunches for the kids, get ready for work, and leave the house with minimum grouchiness!
I'm actually pretty happy about today's lunch. The inari zushi came out of the freezer and I must say, it did remarkable well. Two tricks learned from experience - first, freeze until solid before attempting to foodsaver in individual portion sizes and second, microwave before putting into your bento (let cool before final packing, of course) to perk the rice back up. The roe was added after microwaving, before packing. The miso was left over from my breakfast - I left out the veggies that I included with breakfast because I'd included them in other places in the lunch.I did learn a lesson with the miso - keep the fried onions out until just before serving. If you leave them to sit in the soup, they lose their coating!
Dinner for the kids tonight was soup from a can and breadsticks. :-( I had the things ready to make a healthy dinner, but time and leftover dishes that were threatening to take over my kitchen conspired against me! I conceded defeat. By the time kids were fed, dishes were done, homework was done, and kids were in jammies...I just didn't have the energy to fix the dinner I had planned.
Dinner for me turned out to be oven-baked french fries using rendered foie gras duck fat I've been saving (don't hate me until you've tried it, lol). Delicious! But now I'm going to have to raid the freezer again for tomorrow's lunch since I was planning to use tonight's leftovers....
Did I mention I was a busy lady? :-)
Monday, April 12, 2010
What happened to spring break?
I knew it would end...I just didn't realize it would be so soon! I'm not quite to the point of looking forward to summer - but I really could use another week of break. :-)
In typical morning fashion, my good intentions of waking early to calmly start the day and make a glorious lunch disappeared amid a string of hits of the snooze button. I did manage to make a bento, though. The miso soup was kinda sad, but the rest was okay. Not stellar, but better than crackers and coke.
I finished my taxes tonight. For the third year in a row, we're going to owe. Too bad bento boxes aren't tax deductible...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/everydayjoan/4516257677/?addedcomment=1#comment72157623718946247
In typical morning fashion, my good intentions of waking early to calmly start the day and make a glorious lunch disappeared amid a string of hits of the snooze button. I did manage to make a bento, though. The miso soup was kinda sad, but the rest was okay. Not stellar, but better than crackers and coke.
I finished my taxes tonight. For the third year in a row, we're going to owe. Too bad bento boxes aren't tax deductible...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/everydayjoan/4516257677/?addedcomment=1#comment72157623718946247
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Brrr!
Went to the first Friday Night Fireworks game of the season last night. I love minor league baseball. We've got great seats, it's not as crowded as the majors, and the baseball is still worth watching. Great for the family. It was VERY cold - we spent the evening in coats and huddled under a blanket, but seeing the looks on the kids' faces during the fireworks made it all worthwhile!
Spent the morning drinking green tea made with the new AirPot. Little thing, I know, but I love having the hot water so readily available. It comes in very handy for making soups, noodles, etc. What a time saver!
Speaking of time-saving, I'm headed out to Macy's to get the rice cooker I finally decided on. I'm not going to go with one that has a GABA setting. First, most souces I've checked say it takes at least 8 or more hours to convert to GABA, so a 2 hour cycle in the rice maker isn't going to cut it. Plus there's not even clear proof that dietary GABA crosses the blood brain barrier, so it may all be for naught, anyway. Just as important, all of the GABA cookers are induction versus neuro fuzzy, so even the manufacturers recommend cooking nothing but plain rice in them. As I'm also looking for the Ultimate Rice-Cooker cookbook, I think I'll like the greater versatility of the MICOM versions. We'll see. My DH would tell you it's all a bunch of flim-flam, anyway, lol.
Going back to work next week and looking forward to getting back into creating bentos for me and the kids - will begin posting pics, soon.
Spent the morning drinking green tea made with the new AirPot. Little thing, I know, but I love having the hot water so readily available. It comes in very handy for making soups, noodles, etc. What a time saver!
Speaking of time-saving, I'm headed out to Macy's to get the rice cooker I finally decided on. I'm not going to go with one that has a GABA setting. First, most souces I've checked say it takes at least 8 or more hours to convert to GABA, so a 2 hour cycle in the rice maker isn't going to cut it. Plus there's not even clear proof that dietary GABA crosses the blood brain barrier, so it may all be for naught, anyway. Just as important, all of the GABA cookers are induction versus neuro fuzzy, so even the manufacturers recommend cooking nothing but plain rice in them. As I'm also looking for the Ultimate Rice-Cooker cookbook, I think I'll like the greater versatility of the MICOM versions. We'll see. My DH would tell you it's all a bunch of flim-flam, anyway, lol.
Going back to work next week and looking forward to getting back into creating bentos for me and the kids - will begin posting pics, soon.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Better late than never...
So, I set up this blog about a month ago, with high hopes of writing a little each day. A month later, I think it's time I added at least my first post. Did I mention I was busy?
In the past month or two, I've really gotten into the Japanese art of "bento". Of course, my creations are nowhere near art...but it's a start. My goal is to post at least one or two of my bentos each week so I can get feedback, learn from others, etc. I guess now I have to establish a flicker account so I can do so - yikes!
I'm not sure what the weather is like where you are, but it's crazy here. In the last hour it's been sunny, raining, snowing (yes, snowing) and hailing. I don't think anyone bothered to tell Mother Nature that it's supposed to be "spring break."
Today my goals are to find the top of my office desk (in preparation for doing taxes tomorrow), investigate a rice cooker than will let me make only a cup of rice at a time (I hate leftover rice - it never tastes as good, even with freezing it), sign up for the April Bento Challenge, get that flicker account started, head to oly for a dr.'s appointment, hit Costco for my mom, and really take a look at the upcoming t-ball and machine pitch schedules. Whoosh!
Did I mention it's spring break? :-)
In the past month or two, I've really gotten into the Japanese art of "bento". Of course, my creations are nowhere near art...but it's a start. My goal is to post at least one or two of my bentos each week so I can get feedback, learn from others, etc. I guess now I have to establish a flicker account so I can do so - yikes!
I'm not sure what the weather is like where you are, but it's crazy here. In the last hour it's been sunny, raining, snowing (yes, snowing) and hailing. I don't think anyone bothered to tell Mother Nature that it's supposed to be "spring break."
Today my goals are to find the top of my office desk (in preparation for doing taxes tomorrow), investigate a rice cooker than will let me make only a cup of rice at a time (I hate leftover rice - it never tastes as good, even with freezing it), sign up for the April Bento Challenge, get that flicker account started, head to oly for a dr.'s appointment, hit Costco for my mom, and really take a look at the upcoming t-ball and machine pitch schedules. Whoosh!
Did I mention it's spring break? :-)
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