Creams and sauces made from raw cashews are wonderful alternatives to dairy. Raw cashew nuts blended with vanilla, lemon and maple syrup create a sweet cashew cream sauce, and come very close to a Romanoff-style sauce. Blend them with roasted red peppers or cilantro for more savory sauces to use on pasta. Lately, with organic […]
Bone Health & Eating Dried Plums
They were always called prunes, but a market research study found that when they were renamed dried plums, sales increased. Indications were that women were more likely to purchase a product named dried plums than named prunes. The title, California Dried Plums, came from the fact that most of the produce is grown in California. […]
Goodbye Mr. Spock
Do you say, Goodbye Mr. Spock or Goodbye Mr. Icon? Last month, in search of something to watch in the evening, Mac and I discovered, on Netflix, the Star Trek pilot episode The Cage, 1964; plus the original 79 episodes, 1966-1969. Too young to watch it originally, we are now really getting into the story lines, […]
Start With the Towels
I think a lot about how to live a meaningful, less cluttered life, with more quality, meaning and significance. One very simple way to introduce the idea of less stuff in your life is to start with the towels. There was a time when we had a whole pantry of towels…a whole pantry for two people! […]