Category: Asian food

• Holiday time machine; 12 vegetables of Christmas

  Is there any more effective time machine than a Christmas tree? The first ornament that was mine and only mine was given to me by my maternal grandmother, Christmas of 1952. I pull out that silver cardboard horse to hang it up and, bam!, I’m 7 years old in Watsontown, PA, waiting with dread for the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  December 10, 2016

  Asian food, Beans, Emo eating, Holiday cooking, Holiday eating, vegetables

  cooking from garden, green beans, healthy eating, Sambal Oelek, Vegetables

• Eating a stinkbug, making salad dressing

  I was able to brighten the life of our dental hygenist, Helga, this winter by telling her about popping my retainer into my mouth one night in the dark and wondering why it tasted like citric acid. You can guess: One of the flock of stinkbugs living with us had perched on the retainer in…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 18, 2014

  Asian food, Mind games and weight loss, Salad, Seasonal food, vegetables

  Anything that Moves by Dana Goodyear, Red wine vinaigrette, Salad dressing from scratch, Tossed salad

• Kidding ourselves

  “I think,” wrote our youngest daughter, “about a quarter of doing well at this eating/working out/being a healthy person thing seems to be tricking myself into thinking something.” At least. Hiding food where we can’t see it, smaller plates, moving to another room — away from the temptation — taking a shower or brushing our…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 15, 2014

  Asian food, Chicken, Chinese food, healthy cooking, Mind games and weight loss

  broccoli, chicken, Fooling ourselves into fitness, healthy eating, Mu Shu wraps, weight loss