Food and Fitness Fundamentals Adequate hydration is of key importance for everyday physical health, and is especially crucial when exercising in the extreme heat that summertime often brings. Fluid needs are quite individualized and dependent on many factors such as health condition and personal fitness, body size and gender, normal daily activity, exercise routine, (intensity […]

Food and Fitness Fundamentals This is the gardening time of year that I love! The fruits of my labor from spring planting are now paying off as my edible gardens are in full production. And what is the most prolific right now? Zucchini, of course! Loaves of zucchini bread have been leaping from my oven […]

Food and Fitness Fundamentals As you may recall from my last blog, the topic of discussion was pulses, the edible seeds found inside the pods of legume plants. As a continuation, here are more unique and unusual ways to incorporate pulses into your culinary endeavors. For example, in addition to consuming pulses as reviewed in […]

Food and Fitness Fundamentals Pulses are the edible seeds found inside the pods of legume plants. The most widely known pulses are lentils, chickpeas (also known as garbanzo beans) and dried peas. Because pulses come in such a vast variety of colors, shapes, sizes and textures, they are ideal foods that can be added to […]

You know summer time is here when the abundance of strawberries appear! June and early July is the peak harvest season for our local Willamette Valley strawberries. This is the time to drop everything and race out to your backyard garden, farmers market, food stands and local grocery stores to gather up one, two, or three flats of these succulent treasures.