After slicing off the top half of the kernels, use the dull side of a chef's knife to harvest the remaining meat and juices
Last weekend, I returned to my home state of New Jersey to visit family and friends I hadn’t seen in a while. It’s always a bit of a culture shock to go back; gigantic buildings spring up like weeds in a garden, the roads are always faster and more congested than I remember, and everywhere I go people are in a hurrrrrrry. (I certainly take for granted how easy it is to be mindful in the peaceful mountains of Vermont!) Crack a joke if you must about Snookie or over-crowded industrialization, but I love New Jersey for a great many reasons, not the least of which being the food.
New Jersey is, after all, the Garden State. (I am ignoring the snickering I hear through the broadband.) In fact, the last stop my husband and I planned before heading north again was the farm stand near the house where I grew up. Oh my word, the tomatoes. Beefsteaks, Romas, heirloom varieties in a rainbow of colors…sigh.
The short, cooler summers of Vermont do have one definite drawback, and it is [click to continue…]
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by Robyn on September 1, 2010
Last week I posted on food addiction. My suggestion was to attempt to find ways to eat certain foods in moderation before writing them off completely. As I wrote last week:
“I encourage people to play around with combinations first before throwing in the towel and assuming you can’t eat something because they are addicted to it. Why bother to figure out a way to eat cookies versus just giving them up? I think I’ll blog about that next week…”
So as promised, I wanted to talk about why you might try to make peace with a food before deciding to swear it off for the rest of your life. Over the years that I’ve worked at Green Mountain, I’ve heard this question many time, “Wouldn’t is just be better for me to never eat ________(ice cream, donuts, potato chips, etc …) again instead of trying to figure out ways to eat it in moderation?” My answer is always the same, “It depends on how important that food is to you and it depends on the outcome you’ve encountered in the past when you’ve tried to give that food up completely.”
My concern is that complete abstinence from a food we really like is not practical. It’s likely to set the stage for what I call “substitute eating” or trigger overeating or [click to continue…]
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