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  • Best summer soup ever!

    “If I got this in an expensive restaurant, I’d be really happy with it,” said Stoic the Vast on first tasting this elegant and easy zucchini soup, adapted from a skinnytaste.com recipe. That’s our highest praise. If we’d paid real money for it (instead of “just” raising or buying the groceries), we’d still like it…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    August 4, 2018
    Cooking from the garden, Seasonal food, Simple foods, Soup
    cooking from garden, healthy eating, skinnytaste.com, Vegetables, zucchini
  • Gregory Pardlo’s Air Traffic and zucchini tots (no, really, both of these things)

    Honestly, I was going to opine about zucchini and how thanks to Maggie M. at my YMCA, I’ve learned about zucchini tots which are just like tater tots, except, you know. Then this morning I finished  Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo’s “Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America” (Borzoi, 2018). A frequent…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    July 22, 2018
    Addiction, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Food addiction, Food habits, Seasonal food, Sheet pan cooking, Willpower
    Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, cheese, cooking from garden, Gregory Pardlo, zucchini
  • Depression — that big black bear — and obesity

    For a cogent discussion of the relationship between the two, see — surprise! —  an interview with the glamorous Charlize Theron in the May issue of Elle magazine. She gained 35 pounds to play an exhausted new mother in “Tully,” and says “I had depression for the first time in my life shooting this film.” Isn’t…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    June 17, 2018
    Aging, Depression, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Exercise, obesity, Seniors and weight loss, Working out
  • And now, Father’s Day. Also, best fruit salad ever. With no added sugar!

    OK, the good thing is: We get Mother’s and Father’s Day over within a few weeks of each other. Then I can revert to standard grump mode, as opposed to raging about the nonexistent parenting in my long-ago past. Even I realize this last hurts me as opposed to anyone else, especially those no longer…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    June 16, 2018
    cooking with herbs, Emo eating, Family, Fruit, Salad, Why overweight?
    Coconut, Lime, Martha Stewart recipe, Mint, Pineapple, Strawberries
  • Mother’s Day — it’s complicated

    The cliché is that psychiatrists’ patients talk about how much they hate their mothers. In fact, my shrink met my mother once and never stopped talking about how much he disliked her! I’ve always given her points for being brave enough to go with me to one of my sessions, but, in truth, felt validated…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    May 12, 2018
    Depression, Depression and anxiety-related food issues, Emo eating, Emotional side of weight loss, Family, Food addiction, Why overweight?
    looking for emotional warmth from food, obesity, self-image, understanding food addiction, why overeat
  • Finally happened and sweet cherry-goat cheese-basil crostini

    Well, at last. After six months or so of exercising 5 to 6 times a week, I went to the Y in a mood a few days ago. I was conscious of wanting an aerobic workout. Wanting as opposed to dreading or grudgingly slogging. And when I finished my 30 minutes on the open-stride elliptical,…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    March 21, 2018
    Exercise, Handling anxiety without food, Importance of exercise, Seniors and exercise, Working out
    Appetizers, Baguette, Balsamic vinegar, Barefoot Contessa, basil, Crostini, Sprint and Silver Sneakers, Sweet cherries
  • Trying something new — yes, at your age — and venison Stroganoff

    After I committed to spending five-six days a week at the Y at the end of last summer, people want to know if I feel just fabulous. No, but I don’t feel as bad, and at 72-1/2, that’s probably the same thing. My knees no longer hurt 24/7. I can hike briskly across a big…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    February 25, 2018
    Aging, Exercise, Importance of exercise, Making new habits, Senior fitness, Silver Sneakers Classic, Venison, Working out
    Gherkins, Jamie Oliver, Mushrooms, Sour cream, Stroganoff
  • Stopping by the kitchen on a snowy evening: Honey-garlic sprouts and figgy pork tenderloin

    Lucky for us, the new issue of Taste of Home magazine with its centerpiece on sheet pan suppers arrived before the snow (none of this carry on through rain, snow, sleet foolishness for our carriers). The frozen stuff started before daylight and continued all day, but we had a tiny pork tenderloin in the freezer…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    January 18, 2018
    Cooking Light magazine, good food, Roasting vegetables, Taste of Home magazine, vegetables, Winter
    Brussels sprouts, Figs, Garlic, Pork, Sheet pan baking
  • Why (inexpensive) workout clothes

    Where do you get your workout clothes?” asked a friend who’s transformed her life with the loss of 45 pounds (so far). “Not your tutus, but the regular (normal) stuff.” I pick through the racks at thrift stores at least once a week. One of the bigger chains has started salvaging unsold workout duds from…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    January 8, 2018
    Exercise, Importance of exercise, Senior fitness, Working out
    Exercise clothing on a budget, self-image, Why bother with special clothes for workouts
  • Girls just want to have fun, #101daysagymrat

    So on Day 101 at the Y I was 15 pounds lighter than 101 days previously, I co-taught a Silver Sneakers class and then went to a 60-minute kettle bell demonstration. All in my purple tutu with LED lights (3 speeds). Lessons learned: A tutu on big hips sticks straight out like a ruffle on…

    JoAnn Rhodes Grose

    January 3, 2018
    Balance, Building better habits, Depression, Exercise, Holiday eating, Keeping track of what we eat, Making new habits, Senior fitness, Uncategorized, Weight Watchers, Working out
    Cooking Light magazine, healthy eating, Paula Poundstone, weight loss
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