Making Love in the Kitchen

I feel like perhaps I am supposed to be embarrassed to tell you that I LOVE Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. I am not sure why. After a day of sunshine and rainbows in the kitchen, where 99.5% of the people who call, or write, or come play in the kitchen are delightful, there is something super fun about kicking back to a flood of F-bombs from old chef GR. What’s even more ridiculous about this affection I have for this show is that I don’t even have a TV. That means the man has to go hunting for an online version and we huddle together on the sofa to watch it on the micro computer screen. Yep. I’ve hit it big time for sure. Just wait ’till my episode of Cribs (yes, I used to watch that too). A wild Thursday night watching a crappy British TV show full of cloudy weather and F-bombs on a computer.

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We all have those veggies we don’t really like. The ones we know are great for us, but for whatever reason, they just aren’t the ones we would ever reach for when we are staying on our game and desiring a healthy snack.

For me, it’s carrots and celery. I wish to bits that a handful of carrots were a desirable snack for me but they just aren’t. Maybe it’s because they’re so freaking hard and I have wires cemented to the back side of my front and bottom teeth, a souvenir of the years of braces. Every time I bite into one of these shard-of-glass like veggies I am fairly sure they are going to crack off that cemented wire and I will find myself back in the orthodentist’s chair with one of those big plastic speculum type deals stretching my mouth unnaturally far from my face, all while surrounded by twelve year olds.

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Monkey balls I say! Is it really September tomorrow?

What? What on earth was that??? Oh my, it was the cool fall breeze blowing in.

I am not happy about this my friends. Not happy at all. But I will learn to embrace because fighting against what we cannot change is a massive waste of energy, totally futile and rumour has it, also causes suffering beyond the crap-olla event itself.

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Like the burrito last week, there is something amazingly fun and freeing about creating a recipe for a food that you know very little about. Anything involving chili peppers, I know very little about.

When I was 11 or 12 years old, on holidays with my family in Jamaica, we were visiting friends who were staying in a villa nearby. Out in their back yard was a tree with the cutest little red peppers I had ever seen. What did I do? Of course- I plucked it from the tree and took a bite, than scratched my face, maybe rubbed my eye in the process- next thing I knew, I was in tears begging to have my head removed from my body as I was sure it was on the verge of complete explosion. I had never felt such a searing discomfort before in my life.

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What fun, what fun! It is May which means farmer’s markets are popping up all over the place! Last week I shared my amazing recipe for asparagus pesto and I ate that up so fast that I had to go back to the market. What did I buy on this trip? A giant bag of weeds!!! Wildly grown and foraged food that I likely spent the majority of my life trampling over.

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For some reason, that I may never know, Okra is one of the top search terms that brings people to this here blog of mine. I wonder if there is an internet shortage on okra content, or perhaps that people just love this amazing slimefest of a vegetable but just can’t find about okra recipes.

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All week we’ve been chatting about the danger-bayness of poisonous additives in our food, specifically, MSG. Why is that we love MSG so much? Putting aside the fact that it is an addictive chemical that leads us to binge on junk food, crave more of it, turn our bods into fat stroing machines and degenerate our brain, pancreas and the rest of our nervous system, it does tend to make our food tase better, according to some peeps.

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You know you’ve been on a super whole foods kick for a long time when a couple pieces of grilled tofu becomes a treat. At the (free!) food demo I am doing at the Veg Food Fair this weekend, and with my Veggie Transition program I stress going veggie and doing so soy free. Why?

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Here she be. My super healing summer soup made with 95% local ingredients! I don’t care how hot it is, second only to a smoothie, there is nothing easier to make than a big pot of soup. I ate this for every meal for a good day and a half.

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While I was up at my cottage in early July, when it was a gazillion degrees outside, I decided it was the perfect conditions for a soup. Why? Because that day I had harvested a very special ingredient from the nearby woods which makes a soup extra powered healthy.

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Josh and I had harvested just bundles of wild leeks and I had intended to give them out to my Healthy Meal Prep workshop attendees. In all the excitement over the amazingly delicious food we were enjoying- I forgot to give them out and they forgot to ask for them. Alas- I had a whole [...]

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Josh and I had harvested just bundles of wild leeks and I had intended to give them out to my Healthy Meal Prep workshop attendees. In all the excitement over the amazingly delicious food we were enjoying- I forgot to give them out and they forgot to ask for them. Alas- I had a whole [...]

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Once upon a time, when I used to where pointy high-heeled boots and pretend to be a grown-up with a real job for a great big advertising agency, I was never shy about taking advantage of the perks. Perks included having a DVD club as a client and getting to order all the movies I wanted and expense it (hence my ownership of The OC season one. Dirty Dancing, Ultimate Edition and The John Hugh’s Collection) and taking clients to concerts in the company’s private box.

Wow did I thank my lucky Outlook Express stars when an email came through from my client requesting to see Prince in the corporate box.

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Apparently my sweet healthy ladies (and one or two men who read me), you are all over the single pot meals. Who could blame you though really? What is better than throwing a whole heap of stuff into a pot, taking a good thirty minutes to take a bath, paint your nails, breathe through a few rounds of vinyasa, have a quiet contest with the people you share your house with, or even take a little cat-napper and come back to the kitchen to find dinner ready and only one pot (plus a bowl should you choose to use one) to wash? Nothing! Nothing is better than one pot meals.

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I am pretty sure that if the entire world were to taste this soup all at the same time, we would have peace across the land. It is THAT unbelievably, amazingly, wonderously delicious and super-powered. Super Powered I tell you and not a word of a lie. My version of the soup was inspired by [...]

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