No matter how much you love to cook (and especially if you don't!) preparing a home cooked, nourishing meal every day is a big ask! Luckily, there are lots of shortcuts for making these kinds of meals a staple for you and your family.
Today I am featuring one of my favorite tips- make a double batch when you cook, and freeze some for later! This strategy works better for certain recipes, and these two are particularly good. Pozole is a Mexican delicious stew and it's on my family recipe rotations once a month. It's also our New Years tradition, but you can enjoy it any time. Add your own variations of thickness and toppings. If you don't have time to make the tomatillo base (another great freeze for later candidate), substitute chili powder. It will change the taste, but it will still be delicious. Soupa Toscana is another of my go to meals. My daughter never complains when I make soup, and she loves to add a grilled cheese sandwich on the side. You can use the pressure cooker or instant pot for both of these recipes. If you don't have one of these, do yourself a favor and get one! It cuts down cooking time by more than half, even 3 or 4 times, depending on what you're making. I have definitely been saved by my pressure cooker on more than one occasion. No dinner planned- no worries- you can cook frozen chicken in under 30 minutes. Dinner, done! Amy Horn is currently leading the Getting Ready to Ride Series rides every Saturday. These are leisurely paced and about 20 miles each. They start at 10 am at Gas Works.
Getting Ready to Ride - Saturdays 2/24: https://cascade.org/rides-events/getting-ready-ride-gr2r/83104 3/2: https://cascade.org/rides-events/getting-ready-ride-gr2r/82944 3/14: https://cascade.org/rides-events/getting-ready-ride-gr2r/83108 (and other Saturdays from Green Lake but I'm skipping those; too far north!) 3/1: Leisurely 12-mile sunset ride around West Seattle: https://cascade.org/rides-events/83268 3/9: A moderate-paced ride from Seward to Golden Gardens and back: https://cascade.org/rides-events/83223 Then starting in mid-April, Amy is helping to lead the "Red" (leisurely pace) rides in the Cascade Training Series (12 weeks on Saturday mornings, paid series, progressively longer rides): https://cascade.org/rides-events/cascade-training-series-2024-04-13 4/21: Ride for Major Taylor -- 26 or 63 miles for a great cause: https://cascade.org/rides-events/ride-major-taylor-2024 Hope to see you on your bike soon! Join me on Nov 22 as we kick off the Holiday Challenge for 2023!
For 6 weeks, we will work out together and increase our well being by setting goals, eating well, cutting back on sweets and alcohol, being more mindful, and keeping each other accountable. It's going to be fun and we will feel great. Sign up here today. My client got in a biking accident a few weeks ago. She landed on her knees and developed a huge bruise on her right quad. I loved the fact that she still wanted to come in and move her body; she could have easily written those weeks off as “injury time.” As we trained her upper body, stretched, and moved, she told me she hadn’t done anything on her own and she was in a funk. I told her of course she was, and that it was ok. Her body still has bruises and marks. It’s going to take a while for it to heal. That’s the physical part, but there is also emotional scarring, fear, and trauma she has to work through. Give yourself time. Time to heal. Time heals almost everything.
I told her that my brother died 4 months ago, and I'm just starting to feel like myself again. I miss him and yet I feel connected to him as I celebrate his time with my friends and loved ones. I'm able to celebrate his life through his memories. It takes a while to process it all and go through all the emotions consciously or in a sober manner. We want to be on the other side, but our emotional body might need more time, so we must learn to be gentle with ourselves. It's so easy to keep busy so as to not really look it, or to eat and even drink as an avoidance strategy. Sober October couldn't have come at a better time. Put simply, sober really just means not being addicted or intoxicated. I took a break from drinking and did a bit more writing and being in nature. We have to try different things like drawing, crafting, singing, dancing- anything our body is calling for to release that heavy energy- before we can invite healing into our lives. One of you mentioned doing less sugar or mindless scrolling on social media. That's perfect, it helps us to be more aware of how we spend our time and energy. The body can store emotional pain, and sometimes movement finally allows it to release. I’ve been talking to my nephews and sharing stories about their dad. I put his pictures up on my altar this year and had friends over to hug, laugh, and cry. All of it is healing. So celebrate your loved ones and be grateful that we are still here to enjoy playing this game of life together! Love hearing the creativity from you all and what you are doing with Sober October, or just taking the mindlessness out of drinking, social media, channel surfing, eating - anything you do on auto-pilot. Perfect So proud of you. I bet you felt the confidence!
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