In light of Ann Marie’s upcoming e-course in how to prepare Healthy, Whole Grains, I thought I’d ask her a few burning questions that I know many of you share with me. It’s no secret that I eat a mostly grain-free diet. I’ve never avoided grains for health or digestive reasons. I’ve avoided them because I value my kitchen time too much to waste it experimenting with sprouting, drying, grinding, soaking, kneading, waiting, baking, waiting, and baking. I had a season of doing all that, but I never hit upon a system to make it any less work. Ann Marie has.
Real Food Link Love
I hate this part of the Link Love post — the part where I try to summarize the post in a few handy sentences. Sometimes, it’s just downright impossible. I’ve tried different strategies over the years. Sometimes I’ve simply talked about my own week. Sometimes I’ve teased readers with a few of the post’s highlights. I’ll probably do all of those again. Today, I’m opting for full disclosure.
Summarizing this week’s Link Love post was hard, so hard I opted not to do it!
How Food Impacts Our Mood
WOW. You’re in for a treat. I signed up for Ann Marie’s new Surf & Turf online cooking course, and today she released another Sneak Peak video from her first lesson: How Food Impacts Our Mood. It’s amazing.
It’s just a 4 minute clip out of an entire lesson, but WOW. Well-produced, informative, and including interviews from Sally Fallon Morrell (president of the Weston A. Price Foundation) and Julia Ross (author of The Mood Cure), this video is top-notch. If it’s at all like the rest of the videos and podcasts in the e-course, I will be getting way more than $100 worth of content over the next 13 weeks.
WINNER: Surf & Turf Course PLUS COUPON
The time has come. With just two days left to enroll in Ann Marie’s upcoming Surf & Turf e-course, I’m ready to announce the winner to this week’s giveaway. Ann Marie has also graciously given my readers a coupon for $20 off the enrollment fee. If you pay with her 4 month installment plan, that brings the price down to just $30/month for 4 months. Or, if you pay all at once, you can make a single payment of just $100! (Honestly, at less than $8 per class, it’s a smokin’ good deal.)
Salmon Croquettes Recipe
This recipe for Salmon Croquettes came to me courtesy of Ann Marie’s new Surf & Turf class. (Have you entered that giveaway yet?).
Featured in Lesson 5 (along with 14 other amazing seafood recipes), this recipe puts my typical salmon patties to shame. It’s not any harder than what I do, but it packs in much more flavor and a lot of vegetables, too! Because I’m now a nursing mom, I’m making an extra effort to eat more seafood and organ meats each week. These salmon croquettes are a hit, and will certainly be added to our meal rotation.
GIVEAWAY: Surf & Turf Class
Do you hear that? It’s the sound of a clock ticking, counting down the minutes until next week’s first Surf & Turf class taught by Ann Marie @ Cheeseslave. Enrollment ends this Friday, August 14th.
If you’re thinking of enrolling, enter this giveaway first. Not only will one of you lucky folks win a place in the online class, but everyone who enters will get a coupon code for $20 off the course!
Introducing a Surf & Turf Cooking Class
I admit it. I’m not all that great at cooking seafood — or steaks — even though I *love* eating them. That’s why I’m thrilled to sign up for Ann Marie at Cheeseslave’s new online cooking class to learn how to cook wild caught seafood and grass-fed meats like a pro. As she’s been preparing…
Real Food News Roundup
Since I hadn’t posted a round up of real food news recently, I’ve got quite a few links saved up. I spent a while this morning weeding through them all, trying to find the five most interesting ones (at least to me).
I hope you find them as informative enjoyable to read as I did!
Fats! Desserts! Weight Loss! Backyard Homesteads!
Time for another wrap up of links from around the web. Want the definitive proof that yellow seed oils cause heart disease? How about two new delicious dairy free dessert recipes (one of them without any sweetener at all!)? Or, perhaps I could whet your appetite by inviting you to consider how you can produce almost all your food needs on just a quarter of an acre.
Check Out These Tasty Morsels
I don’t know about you, but I always look forward to those moments after my children have gone to bed. The house gets quiet. My habit of turning off all but the most necessary lights means that my home is still and dark — somehow inviting. I get to work on things that require my complete attention.
It’s when I read. This week, I’ve got a number of fabulous links to share with you from around the web — links I believe will make for great nighttime or weekend reading. I hope you find them just as valuable, thought-provoking, and entertaining as I did!