Cooking Blogs

I got a great link from Audra, and one from Jen McNally (both below) and it made me wonder what else I'm missing?  What cooking blogs do others use?

SmittenKitchen

101Cookbooks  -- mostly healthy and lots of vegetable based recipes

A year of slow cooking -- a blog-cum-cookbook with gluten-free slow cooker ideas

And, when gazing at gorgeous food on the internet gets in the way of actually cooking, check out the incredible restaurant scene in Portland:

Dan's column for the Bollard (this month extols the fabulousness of the Portland Public Market House) & the Portland FoodMap

Vote for Organic Gardening on Mackworth Island!

Also -- the Real School Garden has dropped to 3rd place in the contest -- if you haven't voted yet, please consider doing so and encourage friends and families... $50,000 for gardening on Mackworth could be a huge investment!  

Friends School is joining The REAL School, one of our collaborating neighbors on Mackworth Island, in applying for a grant from Nature’s Path, a Canadian cereal company. The purpose of the grant is to expand our gardening program by constructing a solar, hoop frame greenhouse so we can do three season growing.  The produce will be used to provide healthier, organic, locally grown food for the children’s lunches and to share with the local food kitchen.

 

You can help by voting for the proposal.  Please go to the link below for the Justmeans website where you can register your vote.  A few minutes of your time will support our efforts to bring more organic gardening and healthy food choices to the Mackworth community of schools.

 

Thank you for your time and support.

 

http://www.justmeans.com/contestidea?ideaid=NDYy 

Mojo Mom free webinar : Personal Power for Kids

I often learn good things from the MojoMom podcasts.  This Wednesday, they'll be offering a free webinar- not sure I can make myself open a computer at that time of day (9pm EST) but it look interesting -- maybe it will be available later.

Personal power for elementary and middle school kids: free parenting webinar this Wednesday night

The topic definitely looks like a good one for us...

More about toxic chemicals

Kristine Jenkins, from the Environmental Health Strategy Center, just sent this link to a New Yorker article about the tie between chemical toxins and children's health.

The Falmouth public library is screening the film A Chemical Reaction about how dangerous lawn chemicals are, and will have Paul Tukey (the filmmaker and author of Organic Gardens) on hand to answer questions - May 27 @ 7pm.   Learn more about the project at Safelawns.org

What Kids think about school

Interesting Washington Post one-off  (by psychologist Daniel Willingham) about why some students don't like school.  I thought this passage was interesting and it makes me wonder if this feels true to FSP students or not?

One in particular strikes me. Students get one, perhaps two, chances to feel academically successful in lower elementary school.

I say that because studies show that show most academic time is devoted to Language Arts: in first grade, about 67% and in third grade, 55 %.

So what happens to the student who is having a hard time learning to read? He spends most of the day working on something that is unpleasant, unrewarding, and at which he feels a failure.

Vote for Organic Gardening on Mackworth Island!

Friends School is joining The REAL School, one of our collaborating neighbors on Mackworth Island, in applying for a grant from Nature’s Path, a Canadian cereal company. The purpose of the grant is to expand our gardening program by constructing a solar, hoop frame greenhouse so we can do three season growing. The produce will be used to provide healthier, organic, locally grown food for the children’s lunches and to share with the local food kitchen. You can help by voting for the proposal. (It does require registering with Justmeans) A few minutes of your time will support our efforts to bring more organic gardening and healthy food choices to the Mackworth community of schools.

Dirt The Movie / customer appreciation @ Stonyfield Cafe

Need a Thursday night dinner & Movie Plan? 

Dirt the Movie : Playing at Space Gallery on May 20th

http://www.space538.org/event_details.php?id=408

and Customer Appreciation Day @ Stonyfield Cafe (formally O'Naturals)

ALL DAY, anyone can BUY 2 MEALS and get the THIRD MEAL FREE! So bring your two favorite people in for lunch or dinner! Or take the third meal home to eat later!

We'll be DONATING 5% OF OUR TOTAL SALES that day to each of these local nonprofits that are both working to make organic food more available and accessible to people: Cultivating Community and Yarmouth Community Garden -- eat at our restaurant all day, and you'll automatically support these two great organizations!

We'll have some of our LOCAL VENDORS SAMPLING THEIR PRODUCTS throughout the entire day. Come try delicious samples from GrandyOats, Pastor Chuck's Orchards, Maine Root, Pineland Farms, Beech Hill Farm & Bison Ranch and Falafel Toasties!

We'll be raffling off a "GREEN GIFT BASKET" filled with great eco products and yummy all-natural and organic food!
 
Try samples of Stonyfield yogurts, and our new tart frozen yogurt and fruit smoothies!

And even more...

Sandra Steingraber wrote a recent essay calling out the Susan Komen foundation for supporting Kentucky Fried Chicken... this is just one example of the nutty amount of "pink washing" that happens in the Breast Cancer Movement... Carey sent a great blog post encouraging us to think critically before downing pink M&Ms and buying pink-ribbon lipstick...

More support for Sandra Steingraber's ideas

Just as I'm trying to pull together my learning from Sandra Steingraber, new info comes out.  In today's PPH,  3 separate articles addressed the issues.

1) children's learning and behavior (in particular ADD) is linked to pesticides

2) Leigh Donaldson wrote about the President's cancer panel

3) An international study could not conclude that cell phones are safe (or that they are not, in terms of radiation and cancer)

In some ways, we're clearly closing in on a tipping point, but in other ways it's all still so dispirit and not getting through (I used my cell phone only minutes after reading the study, which seems like a bizarre form of cognitive dissonance).

Any thoughts about how we move toward action? 

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