Category: Cooking

Cooking, COVID, Family and Friends, Retirement

Eating or Exercising

by Carol Ann Heath, Ed.D. • March 28, 2020 • 0 Comments

With each day that elapses, growing bored with the homebound menu is a significant risk. My husband and I are both outstanding cooks, using a theme approach for each night of the week but varying the menu within, including Marinara Monday, Taco Tuesday, Wegetable Wednesday, Thirsty Thursday, Pizza Friday, Seafood Saturday, and Special Sunday. Differentiating…

Cooking, Retirement

How to Make Something Less Salty, Spicy or Over Seasoned

by Carol Ann Heath, Ed.D. • October 20, 2019 • 0 Comments

If your dish is over seasoned—say, too salty or too spicy—we have lots of solutions that can get things back on the right track, from bonus toppings to dilution. — Read on food52.com/blog/10046-how-to-save-an-overly-salty-or-spicy-dish We have all had too salty food and tried the old potato truck. It doesn’t work! This article offers many suggestions for…

Cooking, Family and Friends, Health

Organic —The way to go!

by Carol Ann Heath, Ed.D. • April 10, 2018 • 0 Comments

apple.news/A5pzFlwTETka0llxPoBJI8g Visiting my son and his family in California I was aghast at the cost of shopping only at Whole Foods and the speciality fish store in Santa Monica. It is not that I am a complete bumpkin about food and purchasing healthier options. I was not convinced that EVERYTHING needed to be organic, fresh,…

Cooking, Retirement, Travel

Restaurant Soft Openings

by Carol Ann Heath, Ed.D. • August 13, 2017 • 0 Comments

Traveling is often filled with the unexpected and the hope for the extraordinary experience. Visiting in Los Angeles lends itself to both, the lovely moments and the overrated. Tonight we went to a “soft opening” of a restaurant. For those who may not know, this is when a restaurant is still putting the finishing touches…

Cooking, Retirement

The Farmers’ Market

by Carol Ann Heath, Ed.D. • July 7, 2015 • 1 Comment

Suddenly the car swerved to the right, making a sharp turn onto a gravel lot with about a dozen mini-gazebos in a two-sided rectangle. The sign proclaimed, Farmers’ Market, open 8 to 12 Mondays and Fridays. Since I live in a coastal area with large inland farming and chicken industries, I wasn’t really expecting much. …

Cooking, Family and Friends, Hobbies, Relationships, Retirement, The End

Making Lefse

by Carol Ann Heath, Ed.D. • August 21, 2014 • 1 Comment

I am not Norwegian. Just so that is said upfront. My family by marriage is and very proud of it. Lefse is a Norwegian traditional bread. Don’t mistake Lefse (bread usually eaten with butter and sugar) for Lutifisk (fish dried in lye with a strong odor, and tastes just awful). Here is our family matriarch at…