For Christmas this year, our son and his family gave us two tickets to Cirque du Soleil. The catch was that we had to travel to Dallas to collect our present, which we did early in February, when the ‘Corteo’ show happened to be there the same weekend as our younger grandson’s 5th birthday party.
Sorry to have been so lazy at the blog desk of late, but we’ve been on the road and unlike Mike, I don’t do well blogging from the airport lounge or passenger’s seat of a car. Besides, doing so would require that I wrest control of the laptop and Verizon National Broadband from his grasp. Not an easy undertaking, I can tell you. I do much better from my own little old desk.
As has become our custom, we celebrated the passing of the old year and the coming of the new with music, fine wine, good food, and great friends.
In a recent Foodie Finds piece, our local paper’s food writer, Amy Wong, waxed poetic about the Power of the Pomegranate, which has become the new darling of the culinary/nutrition world. Tart, delicious, beautiful, and chock full of antioxidant power, pomegranates are suddenly turning up on menus in everything from entrees to cocktails.
The New York Times Sunday Magazine a while back carried an article entitled “Super Cuts” in its cooking feature “The Way We Eat” by Daniel Patterson. (Try though I might to find it elsewhere on the net, I could only come up with the NY Times archive, which can only be had free to subscribers, though there is a 14-day Free Trial Offer available.) The piece detailed the rising trend among top chefs of offering off-beat, oft-neglected, less expensive cuts of meat on their menus: pig’s feet, beef and veal cheeks, lamb’s neck, pork belly, and others. The great wide world of meat out there beyond steaks, ribs, and shoulders. For those who complain that a meat-based diet is just too expensive, they offer a reasonable (and flavorful) solution.
Lose weight, feel fit, and boost your health.
The New York Times Bestseller
The three-tiered nutrition plan
Plus meal plans, recipes, kitchen stocking advice, and more
Gram counts for everything
Carbohydrates, protein, omega fatty acids, fats and even fiber
The quick, easy-to-follow low-carb diet plan
30-Day Low Carb Diet Solution
Low-carb recipes that satisfy your comfort food cravings
Control your weight, improve your health, and enjoy cooking.
150 recipes from the PBS-TV series
Maintain a low-carb lifestyle.
Take the next step to a rich, satisfying and healthy life.
Get strong, lean and healthy.
Amazing results in just 30 minutes per week
Learn the benefits of vitamins, minerals, and supplements
User-friendly A-Z format
