Certainly, there are many things to do to fill our schedule on Saturdays. We could wash the car, clean the garage, or run to the library to get a jump on that ten-page paper with its quickly approaching deadline. I’m no stranger to a bustling schedule. My life requires me to juggle academic life with the joys and challenges of parenting two children, home ownership, and all the while volunteering for a not for profit. Let’s face it, we as Americans, are just too busy.
Accordingly, one of the comments I hear most frequently as a blogger and community health educator is, “I don’t have time to cook.” Well, to help you meet the seemingly opposed realities of living a hectic life and nourishing yourself, I’ve decided to devote Saturdays to a blog entry composed of a recipe.
Slow Food Saturdays will give you a shopping or ingredients list for a recipe that you can prepare in under an hour. Of course, my plan is to give you timesaving tips, while sending you off to shop for locally grown or produced whole foods.
The term, slow foods, originated in Italy. Food and dining take on a mystique there that calls you to enjoy a heightened awareness about what you’re consuming. In other words it’s a plot to undermine the “fast-food” culture, which subverts healthy living.
When you think about it, how can you be healthy if your food choices are composed entirely of food impostors or fake foods? Real foods take time to grow, to prepare and even time to enjoy the simple pleasures of eating.
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