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  • Out of breath, hungry and Spring Pesto Dip

    You could take away any of my many subscriptions before I’d let you touch my contract with The New Yorker. I pay a lot of money so they can deliver the world to my mailbox most weeks of the year. This is unlike our local newspaper whose mission, evidently, is to spotlight one overweight old…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    May 22, 2019
    Aging, Dip/sandwich spread, Exercise, Importance of exercise, Making new habits, Mind games and weight loss, obesity, Seniors and exercise
    Adam Gopnik, Alzheimer’s, Martha Stewart Living magazine, The New Yorker, Vegetables
  • Fast food, no, REALLY fast!

    People who sew will tell you the finished garment depends on how good a job you do cutting out your fabric. This person who cooks will tell you the way you eat depends on how well you shop. Have boneless skinless chicken thighs and snow pea pods in the freezer or fridge for this easy…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    April 9, 2019
    Easy entrees, healthy cooking, Poultry
    Chicken thighs, healthy eating, Hoisin sauce, omnivorescookbook.com, Pea pods, Samin Nosrat, Woman’s Day magazine
  • “Sensory strobe light” from a simple soup

    When I read a food article like Helen Rosner’s “The Female Chef Making Japan’s Most Elaborate Cuisine Her Own,” (from which I swiped “sensory strobe light”), I think I’m not trying hard enough. Very few exotic ingredients, so little “plating,” so much grabbing and going. But then I realize we’re lucky enough to eat really…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    March 21, 2019
    Flavors of the Earth, healthy cooking, Healthy eating for the whole family, Making new habits, Nutrition, Senior fitness, Simple foods, Soup, vegetables
    Barley, Beans, cooking from garden, Easy entrees, healthy eating, Kale, The New Yorker magazine, V-8 juice
  • A brilliant quiche

    I’ve been doing a little wine reading lately, and a word that keeps popping up is “brilliant.” It doesn’t relate to intellect but to surprise and fortuitousness and spark, to something that is just immediately right on the taste buds. That would be this Quiche from the December (and final) issue of  Cooking Light magazine.…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    February 19, 2019
    Cooking from the garden, Cooking Light recipes, Easy entrees, Mushrooms, Quiche
    chard, cheese, eggs, Garlic, sweetpotatoes
  • Two cooks are not too many; curried chicken and cauliflower

    I went back to work half-time at the end of May (with a 6 to 8 hour weekly commute) and did not foresee this benefit: Stoic the Vast has vastly expanded his cooking repertoire. He’s baked a toothsome whole wheat-oat bread for years and, likewise, always been in charge of fluffy omelets with sautéed peppers…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    February 12, 2019
    Chicken, Easy entrees, good food, healthy cooking, Sheet pan suppers
    cauliflower, chicken, Cucumber, Curry, Greek yogurt, healthy eating, Mint
  • For Pat, Part II or Fear of Fish

    Several years ago a friend and I agreed that we almost always order fish in nice restaurants but are just as likely not to cook it at home. We’re both good cooks who cook a lot. Why isn’t this the easiest thing in the world? I can whip up a quick tuna salad (you should…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    January 22, 2019
    Easy entrees, Fish, good food, healthy cooking
    Flounder, Mushrooms, NRDC recommended fish, onions, salmon
  • For Pat — what I did with the Christmas smoked scallops

    I usually credit whatever web site I find a recipe on, but I missed that this time, also changed a few things like amount of liquid. Recipe called for 2 cups baby arugula but there was not a leaf available in Mocksville so I substituted 2 cups chopped baby spinach, and it was just fine.…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    January 13, 2019
    Easy entrees, Lemons, pasta, Seafood, Shellfish, Simple foods, Winter
    Arugula, Orzo, Smoked scallops, Tomatoes
  • There’s always a death at Christmas

    Of course, death is always with us in vast quantities that we can only imagine when we can’t sleep at night. But the ones that have gobsmacked me at holiday time started with a Shakespeare seminar classmate in college. I didn’t know him well, but when he disappeared over Christmas break in a small plane…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    December 10, 2018
    Advent, Balance, Being present in our lives, Depression, Faith and religion, Grief, Handling loss without eating, Uncategorized
    Death and Christmas, Death never takes a holiday, Loss at the holidays
  • Emo eating, addiction and wellness

    I broke my foot in June and quickly gained 14 pounds — faster, you might say, than a heifer on a feed lot. That was five months ago. Since September I’ve carved off nine of those pounds — as slowly as sculpting marble with a butter knife. Aaargh, that’s all I can say. (Of course,…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    November 11, 2018
    Addiction, Food addiction, Mind games and weight loss, Seniors and weight loss, Stress eating, Uncategorized, Weight Watchers
    Anxiety, Boredom, Depression, Exercise, Fast food, weight loss
  • Watsontown, PA

    “How’d you find Watsontown?” asked one of my 111 high school classmates after Stoic and I ended up there as we drove home from Niagara Falls last month. She, incidentally, is among the handful of us who didn’t stay there after graduation. Well, as a vaudeville comic might say, with great difficulty. I think because…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    September 15, 2018
    Aging, Comfort food, Compulsive eating, Depression, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Emotional side of weight loss, Food addiction, Rural life, Taking care of ourselves, Warrior Run High School Class of ’62, Why overweight?
    Academy Street by Mary Costello, High school reunion, obesity, self-image, why overeat
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