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Cookus Interruptus

The word on the food scene is that we need to be feeding our families fresh, local, organic food for optimal health. Experts tell us to eat more plants, less meat and stay away from processed food. Home-cooking has never been more critical. But many of us lack the skills, not to mention time.

Help is on the web. Nutrition educator Cynthia Lair (author of Feeding the Whole Family, Feeding the Young Athlete and regular Mothering contributor) invites you into her kitchen for fast and fun DIY videos on cooking and family nutrition. She brings her expertise from 15 years of teaching nutrition and cooking at Bastyr University to the camera, while Steve and Jane (her cooking show husband and daughter) add reality and a dash of humor to the mix.

Learn what quinoa is and how to make it into a stupendous salad. Find out how to identify whether a food is whole or not. Ever wondered what to do with collard greens? What's the secret to frying tofu so it has great texture and taste? Cookus Interruptus has easy answers. Videos are organized into menus and new recipes are added every few weeks. Plus, you have a say. Leave a comment and request recipes or add your favorites. Influence the outcome of who Jane dates or what befalls Steve and Cynthia on their mid-life adventure.

It's educational, it's entertaining, and most of all it's accessible. It's about cooking wholesome meals while the tentacles of kids, husbands, phone solicitors, and missing strainers pull us in every direction. Bring your busy, wonderful whole self to Cookus Interruptus and learn to how make a perfect pot of quinoa or why sea salt is better. Visit www.cookusinterruptus.com or www.cookus.tv today.

*this entire review is plagiarized, I mean pasted, from Mothering Magazine

shenanigans

If you cannot tell by the photo, the string to this balloon (which is weighted) is through the inside of the 2nd story foyer chandelier. C will not stop saying Mommy, peeeeze, I want my buh-yoon back right now! Not happenin'!!!

True Life

It has recently come to my attention that I stink. At everything. Read more of this post - that could have come straight out of my life - over here

Life

has a way of moving faster than I am capable of wrapping my head around. It's been quiet on the blog not for lack of things happening but because I cannot seem to figure out a way to get it all down. In the meantime, if you're looking for some things to ponder, check out this article over at Enjoy Parenting. I will try and get my thoughts together and blog about life around here soon :)

Oh, and here is one more read that is funny, true and thought provoking...I Confess

Hello??

Not sure if anyone is really reading this blog. Considering I do not update with any regularity and much of what I do post is incoherent and rambly and a little kooky :)...but, if you do stop by, leave a comment every now and then just so I can see who is visiting. Thanks - whoever you are!!

Oops!

Playing Go Fish this afternoon, B was one card away from winning. He asked H if he had an 8 to which H responded Go Fish. B took a card from the deck, glanced at it briefly and exhaled loudly before saying "it's a 7, ah crap!". Clear as day. No mistaking it for another word. I do recognize that my response was not appropriate but I could not stop laughing. Of course, he joined in the laughter. I attempted, while wiping away tears and trying (unsuccessfully) to regain my composure, to let him know that crap is not a nice word and I did not want to hear him say that anymore. B's response: "Why do you say it then?".

Oops!

silly and sweet

B, H & C

4 Year old boys are the most wonderful combination of silly and sweet...we are having a lot of fun these days!

H and C (silly)

B and Maddox (sweet)