Good + Good for You in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Spring is here or, at least, that’s what our clocks reported when many of us begrudgingly sprung forward last night. While I may not like losing an hour today, I do relish the idea of longer days before the sun sets. Because I tend to look on the bright side, longer days means more time…
The smell of homemade cookies is enough to make anyone feel like a child again. The sweet blend of flour, sugar and butter linger in the air and lure you in like a spider lures its prey. Cookies were one of my grandmother’s favorite ways to say, “I love you.” Whether it was a traditional…
Everything tastes better when you are on vacation. Is it that someone else does the heavy lifting–the planning, foraging, prepping, cooking and clean up? Or is it the relaxed atmosphere where time is yours to burn with no schedule and zero meetings or responsibilities that makes every meal and moment that much more delectable? Perhaps…
It’s often hard to gauge when your sweet tooth is going to kick in. But when it does, it’s critical to have something that satisfies your craving to the deepest core. And when that sweet tooth strikes, it’s even more important to have something sensational stashed away for these maniacal moments when only a seriously…
Salt, fat, acid and heat are serious culinary buzzwords right now. It was likely the 2017 release of Samin Nosrat’s cookbook, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking and her more recent 2018 Netflix series of four episodes of the same name–one for each of the elements–that have inspired many people to follow her…
It seems cauliflower may have hit a high note as we roll into 2019. Honestly, I am surprised to see such chatter about it on social media, even though the growing variety of products in the grocery store featuring cauliflower should have warned me that we have finally reached a tipping point. No matter where…
As we embark on a brand new year, many people have committed to resolutions or intentions to eat better, exercise more, save money, waste less, lose weight, be kinder, read more books, drink less, volunteer or stop procrastinating. The truth is, these intentions are only as good as your determination, especially when it revolves around…
As we linger in the last few hours of 2018, reflect on the years highs and lows, celebrations and sadness and contemplate everything we want 2019 to be, I want to thank you for being a subscriber and following along in this good + good for you journey which will observe a 10th anniversary in…
The stretch of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas inherently seems to kill my palate. I am literally and figuratively stuffed from days of cooking the Thanksgiving feast and, having eaten leftovers for days thereafter, have little or no desire for food. Perhaps it’s that I overdid it a bit for my favorite holiday, as I…
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