Christmas 2009

It has been a WONDERFUL Christmas with all my kids here. Thank you Stephanie for being such a big help as you always are!!! I love you lots!!

I am really enjoying spending Christmas with you and Wayne and Randy and Jennifer and my husband and Susanne and Ace and Shelby and the dogs and Gracie. I love you. Looking forward to seeing you on the Blog.

I feel like I failed you. I have mentioned Macrobiotics in earlier posts but did not realize that the diet cures cancer. Had I found this information earlier, I could have saved you alot of trouble. Watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElwwF4Uz3Ak

I realize that 'special' ingredients are difficult for you to find, they are difficult for me, too. So, I'm going on the offensive. I am going to special order as much as I can from the grocery stores (Wal-mart, for example) that offer online ordering with pick-up at the stores. I think it's really unfair and very anti-humanity to not offer healthy selections at the grocery stores, especially in a community as small as yours where the choices are so limited. My intent is to cause the powers that be to make healthier foods available to everybody. Their are elitist grocery stores, but I would like to influence the lives of people who are living unhealthily because they don't realize they have an option.

I love you.

Well, here it is! A bowl of fresh Parsnip-Fennel Soup. The flavor was so delicate. It was scrumptious.

I'd like to make it for you sometime.

photo by my food stylist and favorite teenager: Susanne!

Ace and I cleaned out the refrigerator today. I should have thought to take some pictures of the little Peeshman as he struggled to lift the heavier jars and wispy fennel to the counter. He is such a good kid. Last night at the dinner table I was talking about what a good-tempered easy going child he is.
"Quite different than my previous experience with a child." I said.
Susanne smiled real big.
"Okay, Ace, let me show you what I used to do."
"No, no." I discouraged her.
I don't need that drama. I mean, really. Really.
Anyway, the refrigerator was Disgust-ing. Why do I let it get like that? What's wrong with me??
But now it's done and I'm proud of myself. I keep going to the refrigerator, opening the door and wondering at the clean brightness.
I found two vegetables that were meant to be used at Thanksgiving but ended up sitting out the holiday on the bench: two bulbs of fennel and two parsnips.
I would be guilty of a heinous crime if I allowed these novel vegetables go to waste, so I Googled them.
I am going to make this recipe this afternoon. I'll substitute my leftover No Chicken Broth for the chicken broth and soymilk (maybe mixed with a little cornstarch) for the heavy broth.
I'll let you know how it turns out!