One of these days I will make dumplings.
One of these days I’ll spend some time with this family’s cookbook (which I own) for recipe ideas.
One of these days…
Fresh or Frozen?
“When fresh spinach sits during transportation over long distances or stays in your refrigerator for a week, its folate content drops so much that frozen spinach becomes the better source,” Mary Ellen Phipps, MPH, RDN, LD, wrote for CNBC in 2022.
This is because frozen spinach often goes through a flash-freezing process just hours after it has been harvested, which helps to lock more of its nutrients in. “One cup of frozen spinach has more than four times the amount of nutrients, including iron, vitamin C, and calcium, compared to a cup of fresh spinach,” adds Phipps.
Fresh is Best? Not Always When It Comes to Spinach — https://vegnews.com/vegan-health-wellness/best-form-of-spinach
I was super proud of myself this past week when I bought a clam-shell of organic spinach and ate the entire tub. Now I know I would have been better off nutritionally with one of the many packages of frozen spinach in my freezer.
Guess I should make my world famous Potato Crusted Spinach Quiche more often.
The Role of Diet and Dietary Patterns in Parkinson’s Disease
The Role of Diet and Dietary Patterns in Parkinson’s Disease — Nutrients 2022, 14(21), 4472; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14214472
A few changes in food choices here and there can’t hurt and may just help.
Year in Review – 2023
But make it again and The Tiny Human may change her mind. ”I don’t like that!” which no parent has ever heard from their child.
Another year, another championship.
Our grand-donkey got painted for the 4th of July.
These people were aggressive and called my cell phone. I told them I’d be very happy to sell them a property I don’t own.
RIP.
Ski Chile ! (mountains all look the same to this Flatlander)
Future artist.
If you live in the US or Canada quit complaining.
YouTube put this suggestion at the top of my For You list of must watch videos.
AND I also get this in my feed:
But at least I’m not Cody.
I didn’t go to Maine.
A quiet anniversary dinner at home on New Year’s Eve.
In with the new and out with the old.
Cantaloupe Anyone?
The deadly cantaloupe Salmonella outbreak in Canada has now sickened at least 164 people in that country, according to Public Health Canada. Sixty-one of those people have been hospitalized, and seven deaths have been reported. Those same cantaloupes have sickened at least 302 people in the United States, with four deaths; three in Minnesota and one in Oregon.
https://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/2023/deadly-cantaloupe-salmonella-outbreak-in-canada-sickens-164/
My local store has whole cantaloupes on sale this week three for $5.00.
I don’t think they’ll sell many.
Good or Bad?
How Butter Beans Went From Gross to Glamorous
I was mystified. Butter beans — or lima beans, as I grew up calling them in the Midwest — are the most banal of ingredients, a boring bean relegated to the darkest corner of every home cook’s pantry. Why, then, were food influencers drowning them in luxurious sauces, crisping them up as a crouton substitute, and braising them as if they were a fine cut of meat? What the heck was going on?
Beans, broadly speaking, are having a moment. The dry bean market is expected to grow to $8.7 billion by 2028, while the canned bean industry raked in $5.65 billion in 2023 and is projected to be worth a whopping $15.5 billion by 2033, according to the market research firm Fact.MR.
How Butter Beans Went From Gross to Glamorous — https://www.eater.com/24008145/why-are-butter-beans-so-popular
Beans are cheap and nutritious. More people will be incorporating this staple into their diets because they are unable to afford the more expensive foods.
It’s not the vegan/vegetarian/let’s save the world movement. It’s basic economics.
Grow Your Own Food
Netherlands-based designer Kyran Knauf has created a tabletop device that allows users to breed and harvest crickets as an alternative protein source.
Called Crikorama, the machine can host a continuous cycle of approximately 3o crickets through their lifecycles before they are harvested and eaten as a “sustainable” replacement for meat.
Kyran Knauf creates tabletop cricket farm for household meat alternative — https://www.dezeen.com/2023/12/15/kyran-knauf-tabletop-cricket-farm-for-alternate-food-source/
Photo source: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crikorama/
YUM!
Trouble in Paradise,,,Confirmed
Two-thirds of those surveyed said they overindulge in food, nearly 45% said they take a break from exercise and more than half report feeling tired and have less time for themselves. Plus, a third admit they drink more alcohol during the holidays.
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. “Survey finds Americans struggle to maintain healthy habits during the holiday season.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 4 December 2023 —https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231204135305.htm
Trouble in Paradise (it’s Weight Gain Season again) confirmed.
BTW I’m hanging around 175 and SO FAR still hanging around 175.
Yeah!
Trouble in Paradise (it’s Weight Gain Season again)
“Competition puts hurdles in front of you that you have to clear.”
OKC Thunder coach Mark Daigneault
Here’s the same chart I posted from last year that is attributed to the New England Journal of Medicine. I could never find the original source article.
Take Home Lesson
“God speaks to us through signs. It is important to allow angels to act. When we see ourselves repeating our ordinary routine, we realize how much wealth surrounds our life. We understand each step, each attitude. We discover important things, and useless thoughts. At the end of a week – discipline is always fundamental – we are more conscious of our faults and distractions, but we also understand that, at times, there was no reason to act the way we did, that we followed our impulses, our intuition; and now we begin to understand this silent language which God uses in order to show us the true path. Call it intuition, signs, instinct, coincidence, any name will do – what matters is that through “conscious attention” we realize that we are often guided to the right decision. And this makes us stronger and more confident.”
Paulo Coelho
Happy Thanksgiving!
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