Good morning!
- Remember, if you’re feeling OVERWHELMED with all the ins and outs of preparing Real Food for your family, TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to sign up for Wardeh’s traditional cooking online class! (If you sign up through that link I’ll receive a small commission… and I thank you.) Find out more in this short Skype call between Ann Marie & Wardeh:
- Don’t forget to sign up for the $40 Skin Care gift card giveaway, AND keep your eyes peeled this week for TWO MORE giveaways! (Maybe you could subscribe for free updates so you won’t miss anything fun around here…?)
- Kent & I are starting to think about this year’s garden, so the topic of Kimberly’s recent post fascinates me all the more: Testing soil for nutrients. I also posted on this topic a while back: The Quest for Nutrient-Dense Food — High-Brix Farming & Gardening. If all this talk of gardens and farming has you longing to feel the sun in your face and dreaming of those mid-summer berries, check out this post from late June: Sweet Summer Saturdays.
- Don’t we all love to hear stories of someone being healed? Especially exciting in my world is when God uses REAL FOOD to bring people back to good health. Read about Peggy’s healing and how she went from hardly being able to walk, to now not even knowing where her cane is.
- I’m curious, how many of these have you heard? Eight Excuses For Not Eating Real Food.
- Please check out comments #25 & #26 at the homemade potato chips post from last week. I was given a good reminder that I needed to hear AGAIN that we should be limiting the starches in our diets, and that these aren’t quite as guilt-free as I’d hoped. (NOT due to the saturated fat, though, we all know that by now, right?!)
- Remember I told you about my brother in law, Mike, who had the heart scare? He sent this recently and I love that he’s GETTING IT! Have you heard of “Obesegens”?
Did my ears hear correctly? Did I hear, on mainstream TV, that we should eat grass-fed meat?! And that obesity is not about “calories in vs. calories out”?!
- Who is your favorite Food Network Chef? I wish I had time to watch Food TV more, but Kent loves Jamie Oliver and when I asked him why, he said, “He doesn’t try and do showy things with food, he goes for the best flavor and will grab food out of the garden and just toss it in.” I asked, “Does he use low-fat crap?” Kent said, “Not that I’ve ever seen.” Check out this talk he did, Teach Every Child About Food.
That’s it for this Monday, have a great week everyone, and don’t forget that Real Food Wednesday is right here this week!
$40 worth of Safe Sexy Stainless Steel!
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So much good stuff here Kelly! I LOVED Peggy’s story, and I read her blog all the time.
I do love my potatoes, and amazingly enough I boil them most of the time… not always though. I did not know that any other method of preperation created acrylamides! I’m guessing that fried potates were a regular dish in many meals back in the day (pioneer days
) so hopefully with moderation we will all be fine.
I heard it too… YES! I’m so happy to be seeing and hearing more real food information getting into mainstream media!!! I hope it continues to snowball.
I noticed the link to “Eight Excuses For Not Eating Real Food” isn’t working.
Have a great week!
That article about Obesogens is very interesting. I’ll have to rethink my food choices even more.
As far as my favorite food network chef, thats easy. MArio Battali!. He was one of the last real chef’s food network had.
Did I say article? I meant video.
ok please help me…
Thanks for the shout-out, Kelly! It is a very exciting thing for me to be mobile again. Yesterday I walked a mile and a half – that’s further than I’ve been able to walk without pain since I was nine years old!
About acrylamides, Health Canada has a plan to “fix” that problem. No, not being careful of cooking food in healthful ways, but to add chemotherapy drugs to foods that might contain acrylamides. EW!! I wrote about it here: http://localnourishment.com/2010/01/24/you-want-chemo-drugs-with-that-burger/
Happy Monday!
Just yesterday, I was wondering about how you test for nutrients in the soil and here it is in your blog. I love when that happens. Thanks, Kelly!
Too bad about the chips
We’re so limited in diet right now that potatoes are big here (no beans, nuts, or grains). Oh well…. I read on another blog (unfortunately can’t remember which…Nourishing Gourmet maybe) about kale chips. Now, THOSE would be safe!
I fixed that link, thanks for telling me, Jen!
Hi, I just checked to see if I had an email entered at Homestead and I do. The product I most want is the Peppermint Lotion to use for my dry feet and legs. I sound just like the testamonial given on the site. Thanks for making this giveaway available, I will have my fingers crossed! Happy Monday Kop.
Kelly,
Awsome stuff, as usual! I just *have* to post that video link (with a link back to you, of course!). I lost 14 pounds last spring/summer by simply adding coconut oil and taking out as much trans fats as possible. I probably took out a lot of other things when I did that. The scale says I haven’t gained them back but I FEEL like I have and the laundry hasn’t shrunk that much. Too many potato chips, maybe??
As I took a break from food prep (and feel like I’ve done nothing else this morning!), Ann Marie’s interview was perfect to motivate me to continue on. While our thorn crown is baking (with the toothpicks, for Lent) I got online to search for a banana bread recipe and I was going to ‘cheat’ and not soak. Fortunately I opened your e-mail first and clicked on your video. I re-googled adding the word soaked to my search and found this:
http://www.paprikahead.com/2009/01/wholegrain-banana-bread-good-kind.html
BTW, we’ve had crazy weather here but went out and planted cool crop seeds in the cold mud yesterday.
Beth
On Food Network, I also love Everyday Italian (pasta, I know, I know) because she has so many amazing recipes-she uses tons of fresh ingredients, pretty much never low-fat anything, and her dishes pretty much always turn out amazing.
I also love Barefoot Contessa for some of the same reasons-I love her cookbooks because she also tries to use the freshest ingredients possible, always from-scratch, and her latest cookbook (still don’t have it but it’s on my list!) looks amazing because she focuses on using simple, fresh ingredients prepared simply for amazing flavor-LOVE that kind of cooking!
Oh, also just have to throw out a salute to Rick Bayless (on PBS, not foodnetwork), as the KING of Mexican cooking! I have his book “Mexican Everyday” and LOVE LOVE LOVE it-again, simple, fresh ingredients for some of the BEST Mexican food I’ve ever eaten, the kind of stuff you’ll never find in a Mexican restaurant but has amazing flavor (like chicken cooked in a slow cooker with potatoes, tomatilloes and vinegar-so simple yet comes out so delicious!). I recently downloaded the book recommended on this site that lists real-food restaurants across the US, and was so happy to see his restaurant in Chicago listed in that book, as he really champions real food (if you watch his show, he’s always going into his garden in the back of his house to grab herbs, produce, etc. for his dishes).
As you can tell, I love to cook…:-D
Kelly-
Great post! I had fun following a bunch of links today
It’s great to see the clip from the Early Show about “obesegens,” but I sort of wish that they didn’t need to come up with all of these fancy names for the same old hormones. Pesticides and artificial hormones added to meat and milk aren’t problematic only because they make you fat, but because they are endocrine disruptors that send a whole lot of things out of balance. The weight gain is only a symptom of everything else going downhill!
As far as TV chefs go–Jamie Oliver is great. I’m surprised the word hasn’t gotten out in the Real Food world about his “Food Revolution”. He has a series on ABC starting in March following him as he tries to change minds, diets, and school lunches in Huntington, WV (the “unhealthiest city in America”). Check out clips here: http://abc.go.com/shows/jamie-olivers-food-revolution?cid=showsitelinks_search
He also has a segment of his personal website dedicated to “Jamie’s Food Revolution”. Apparently he got real changes done to the UK school lunch program and wanted to bring that to America as well. He has a 2-week menu cycle for school lunches posted on his website, as well as lots of instructional information for families to get them to cook and eat real food together, at home. Most real foodies should be able to agree with most (if not all) of his guidelines, and it’s easy to see that the changes he suggests, though they might not be perfect, are a whole lot better than what most people are eating nowadays!
“I believe that every child in America has the right to fresh, nutritious school meals, and that every family deserves real, honest, wholesome food. Too many people are being affected by what they eat. It’s time for a national revolution. America needs to stand up for better food!” {http://www.jamieoliver.com/campaigns/jamies-food-revolution}
I love Jamie Oliver too! He seems so down-to-earth.