When you have been eating primarily local foods for awhile, your meals start to look very seasonal. Right now I am eating a lot of greens. Salads any chance I get. I crave them at this time of year.
There is some amount of storage with local eating. Especially with the winter months. Squash is a crop that stores well in a closet or on top of your fridge for a long time. Thankfully, for those of us craving a fresh vegetable in January.
So now I find myself here in late April...the definition of springtime with flowers blooming everywhere and warm weather being fickle...with one lonely acorn squash on the top of my fridge. I don't crave it, I don't want to waste it. A nice, organic, perfectly good, squash.
I will eat it today I tell myself, because today is rainy and I want something warm and hearty. But I've said that many times this past month and a half.
Do you have any leftover winter crops hanging around your house? Do you have any spring recipes for acorn squash?
Friday, April 19, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013
The yoga scene fluff
Most of my practice is at home. I started a home practice out of necessity due to my all consuming schedule as a chiropractic student. Now that I have time to visit studios...I still stick to keeping to my mat at home.
These days, my yoga practice is about digging deep and facing reality. It isn't easy. It isn't pretty. It isn't hearts, flowers, and butterflies. I have dabbled in meditation...which is also none of those things. Meditation is where I face my dark side. I need to recognize the negative and patience-less part of who I am. This has been creeping into my yoga practice too.
Recently, I decided to visit a yoga class in my neighborhood. It was all peace, love, and happiness. There was pre-practice chat about how 'lovely and wonderful' meditation is. Which I kind of thought was complete crap. Meditation is hard and no one 'loves' it. There was all sorts of cozy happy talk, which just annoyed that dark side of myself that I've been facing in my practice.
Perhaps the only place I should be practicing among others is the Mysore studio. Even if people there are thinking hearts, butterflies, and flowers--they are keeping it to themselves.
Have you ever been annoyed with the fluffy side of the yoga scene, or faced your darker self in your practice?
These days, my yoga practice is about digging deep and facing reality. It isn't easy. It isn't pretty. It isn't hearts, flowers, and butterflies. I have dabbled in meditation...which is also none of those things. Meditation is where I face my dark side. I need to recognize the negative and patience-less part of who I am. This has been creeping into my yoga practice too.
Recently, I decided to visit a yoga class in my neighborhood. It was all peace, love, and happiness. There was pre-practice chat about how 'lovely and wonderful' meditation is. Which I kind of thought was complete crap. Meditation is hard and no one 'loves' it. There was all sorts of cozy happy talk, which just annoyed that dark side of myself that I've been facing in my practice.
Perhaps the only place I should be practicing among others is the Mysore studio. Even if people there are thinking hearts, butterflies, and flowers--they are keeping it to themselves.
Have you ever been annoyed with the fluffy side of the yoga scene, or faced your darker self in your practice?
Friday, April 5, 2013
Early spring salads
I love a good salad! Early spring salads are appearing on plates in my house these days. One of my favorite greens is in season here in Oregon...PEA SHOOTS! I love pea shoots so much. They have a nutty, pea-like flavor in the background of pure green goodness. I have been eating them mixed with microgreens and adding chopped carrots. Since Easter has just passed, I have been adding some pickled beets & eggs to round out the salad and make it an entire meal.
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