Good + Good for You in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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…
While volunteering in early October at the Santa Fe Farmers Market’s Fall Fiesta to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the market, I learned about one of the state’s culinary jewels, La Mesa Organics. This farm and farming team was awarded one of this year’s All-Star Farmers and by growing an indigenous item found only in the Southwest–blue…
Thanksgiving is the holiday I wait for all year. I never tire of it. And while it is about the food, it’s also a reminder to focus on what you are grateful for and graze (pun intended) on those thoughts all day long and through the weekend as we continue to be with those we…
The holidays never really feel like the holidays when you live in hot climates. Growing up in South Texas, and having lived on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in a beach town for many years, temperatures of 80+ degrees for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s felt odd and somehow diminished whatever holiday spirit you could…
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