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Sevananda Natural Foods Co-op
Yesterday I posted about the Cooking with Tea class that Life Chef (aka Asata) taught at the Sevananda Natural Foods Co-Op. I had little time once I got to the store for the class to start so I quickly paid for the course and headed downstairs for the class. After the class was over, I purposefully didn’t schedule anything to do so that I would have time to browse the market. I had just tried many tasty dishes so the creative cooking juices were flowing by the time I was ready to shop! I grew up in the Atlanta area. I lived in a house in Morningside in my earliest…
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Cooking with tea – Life Chef class
Hey there! If you follow me on twitter, then you know that on Saturday I went to an amazing cooking class at Sevananda Natural Foods Co-Op taught by Life Chef (Asata) called cooking with herbs and tea. Asata (pronounced As-ah-tah) created some amazingly healthy dishes that promoted the flavors of tea in different forms. She gave us a hand out chock full of facts about tea and how to brew it. Amazingly, your utensils AND ingredients can vary the tastes of tea. The purity of water is important as well as the temperature in which you brew the tea. She gave us a copy of the latest tasteforlife magazine that…
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♪ Why are there so many? ~songs about rainbows? ♪
♪ ♪ …and what’s on the oooootttthhhhherrr side? ♪♪ I’m not all about wordless Wednesday but I saw this driving today and it absolutely must be shared! Sign of the covenant! Make you smile! Bring joy to a cloudy day! Happy 1st Wednesday of 2009
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Salad Dressing, Does it make or break your salad?
I guess I got into making my own salad dressings from scratch after trying the South Beach Diet. I think right around that time, there were reports on the news about how bad high fructose corn syrup is for you. It seems that many salad dressings along the grocery aisle have this ingredient in them. Go check the labels, you will be amazed how this ingredient is in almost EVERYTHING. Part of the reason that doing things from scratch appeals to me is that I know exactly what is in it. Now I realize that many chefs are tired at the end of the day and don’t really have time…
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Pointing out a few twitter garden posts that are worthy!
Here are a few posts that I thought were important to point out in more than one place. (twitter) drflower post: You’ve just boiled some veggies on the stove & have a pot full of water left. Don’t pour it down the drain, use it to water plants! (cooled) drflower post: Nutrients from foods like pasta and veggies will serve your house plants well, giving them added vitamins instead of your drain. drflower post: I water my plants with leftover coffee sometimes (black) – and old green tea. both are acidic so little goes long way 🙂 twitter friend post: @drflower what does that do? That sounds harmful to plants…curious…
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Feeling that scratchy in your throat? What do you drink?
Wow! It’s been almost a decade ago when I traveled pretty regularly to the Netherlands for work. In my time there, I found that Irish pubs seemed to help cure the homesickness that comes with an extended stay abroad. With the jetlag and candle burning at both ends due to work, (teehee! …now I MAKE the candles and burn them at my leisure!) it was easy to develop a scratchy throat from being run down. The feature at the irish pub would of course include Irish whiskey by the name of Jameson. The cure was almost immediate! I began to order the drink just to study what they did to…
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Dishwasher, How would you pick a new one?
As I write this post, my hubby is working on the dishwasher that has been pulled out and sitting in the middle of the kitchen. At some point today, this appliance will either be fixed and back working or it will be ready for replacement. Either way, the idea of choosing an environmentally smart dishwasher is on our minds. Energy Star has a slick website that is aimed at helping in these kinds of decisions. http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=dishwash.pr_dishwashers There are two spreadsheets you can download at the right column of the site, Qualified Dishwashers and savings calculator. These are the first two files I looked at. The qualified dishwashers is a long…
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Martini Glasses, What color is your glass?
Martini Glasses came up while on the Indie Cafe with my peers. We talked about how we should blog about things that we like and we were encouraged to tell our story so to speak. I made a joke about martini glasses since one or two of us like to drink Martinis. Back before kids and hubby and I had time to go on dates, we went to an event called Martinis and IMAX with his parents. We had a lovely time roaming the fernbank science center as we sipped or martinis and passed the time before our scheduled Movie start. They had live music and free gifts and well…
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Could growing stevia help your Organic garden?
Though nontoxic, stevia (stevia rebaudiana) plants have been found to have insect-repelling tendencies. You didn’t know it would be a good companion plant! Their very sweetness, in fact, may be a kind of natural defense mechanism against aphids and other bugs that find it not to their taste. Perhaps that’s why crop-devouring grasshoppers have been reported to bypass stevia under cultivation. Growing this fabulous plant in your garden also suggests a statement of protest for the banning of this plant in the past by the FDA. I find it quite interesting that this past spring season this lovely plant was actually available at garden centers even in Georgia! Does this…
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Where have you been today? How are those Doggie bones?
Where have I been today? I’ve been working on these lovely Doggie bone type cookies that I blogged about last week. We didn’t have doggie bone cookies cutters so we just went with the Christmas ones! Even the pooch deserves festive bon bons! Our lil white fuzzy dogma taste tester was all about these goodies! She’s now even investigating play doe to see if it’s those yummy doggie cookies! Thanks again Left Over Queen , the recipe was absolutely fabulous! Happy Washing! ~Regina
