Tag: Potatoes

• We are each other’s memories, home-court habits

  “We are each other’s memories,” said my beautiful, silver-haired friend yesterday morning at book club, and with that remark, she grounded me in my world in a way I’ve never before felt. Until I went to college at 17, my mother, sister and I were kept isolated in a very rural setting by my control-freak…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 18, 2015

  Building better habits, Celebrations, Emotional side of weight loss, healthy cooking, Holiday eating, Importance of exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Roasting vegetables

  cauliflower, healthy eating, Peppers, Potatoes, Rosemary

• Tubby oldsters and slimmed-down broccoli soup

  When I repeated something I’d read about never seeing any old fat people, Stoic the Helpful suggested, “Santa Claus.” OK, besides a really fat and really old guy with a Downton Abbey-worthy household staff, who else? Anybody? Anybody not on a walker because of their abused old knees or hips? I can’t think of anyone;…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 20, 2014

  Anne Lamott, Lunch, Soup, vegetables, Weight loss

  broccoli, broccoli and cheese soup, cheese, Jesse Knadler, Potatoes, Rurally Screwed, Tart & Sweet

• Eleventh day of Christmas and, baby, it’s cold outside!

  My pipers piping are the redpolls (purple finches) at the bird feeders. Wikipedia says they’re native to the arctic tundra so they should feel right at home in the Carolina Piedmont this morning. Also mentions they “migrate erratically,” which is funny to think about. I guess I’ve done that throughout the holidays — from the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 5, 2014

  Fish, healthy cooking, Simple foods, Soup

  healthy eating, Omega-3, onions, Potatoes, Vegetables

• Best crockpot potatoes ever

  Plug, plug, plug. This is what I do every day. Work at turning eating in a healthy way into a way of life. A lifestyle even. Keep track of my calories. Measure food with scales, cups and spoons. Exercise. Exercise more. Drink quarts and quarts of water. Sleep. On the plus side my flowers look…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 31, 2012

  good food, Rural life, Simple foods, Weight loss

  Bacon, cheese, Exercise, Potatoes, Slow cooking