Discovered in our kitchen: easy to make, cheaper & more nutritious than the commercial variety, requires less packaging, and is unlikely to be recalled:
1. Make a nice big bowl of popcorn
2. In a spice grinder:
sesame seeds
nori torn up to acceptable size for grinding
kelp granules
(equal amounts of these will do fine)
Grind to a coarse meal.
3. Sprinkle on popcorn and salt to taste. Enjoy avoiding salmonella and the vast snack aisle at the market.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Women in Science, Women in Dance
Two worthy Hudson Valley field trips today:
1. The Cornell Extension Agroforestry Center at Acra (check out their programming link for more info):
My kids are participating in a four-part series of 2-hour programs on Women in Science. The blurb for this proram, which we're enjoying (it's a mix of talk, experimentation, record-keeping, other activities, and watching a DVD):
"Meet women scientists who boldly explore new worlds in this four part series. The Wonderwise: Women In Science Learning Series is a curriculum developed by the University of Nebraska that introduces real scientists to young people. This curriculum was designed for teaching 8 to 12 year old children the basics of scientific investigations. We will watch a DVD about Adriana Ocampo, who searches through Belize for traces of a crater caused by an asteroid that hit earth 65 million years ago. As a space geologist, Adriana compares craters that exist on other planets with ones that are known to exist on earth. We will conduct hands-on experiments that investigate geology. The final day of the series will include a field trip to the Gilboa Museum to view some of the world’s oldest fossilized trees."
Good stuff, great facility, if a little far north for us.
2. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
Located on 153 acres of land near the Hudson River in Tivoli, New York, at a historic site (the former estate of Eleanor Roosevelt’s grandparents), Kaatsbaan hosts dance residencies, performances, and an "extreme ballet" summer camp for dancers aged 14-plus.
We went to a well-attended free rehearsal of the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, which will perform for paying audiences this weekend.
The dance was energetic, the space capacious, but I appreciated the response of my kids: "I hate watching other people dance. They should just let everyone who wants to, get up and dance."
Joining the performance was ruby-throated vocalist Bente Kahan, a "Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, whose production company Teater Dybbuk - Oslo, aims to convey Jewish-European culture and history through drama and music." She sang two heartbreaking songs about the loss of home and family.
This is one of those great nonprofits that is combining land stewardship with a compatible mission, and we'll be going back for more, whether my kids want to or not.
1. The Cornell Extension Agroforestry Center at Acra (check out their programming link for more info):
My kids are participating in a four-part series of 2-hour programs on Women in Science. The blurb for this proram, which we're enjoying (it's a mix of talk, experimentation, record-keeping, other activities, and watching a DVD):
"Meet women scientists who boldly explore new worlds in this four part series. The Wonderwise: Women In Science Learning Series is a curriculum developed by the University of Nebraska that introduces real scientists to young people. This curriculum was designed for teaching 8 to 12 year old children the basics of scientific investigations. We will watch a DVD about Adriana Ocampo, who searches through Belize for traces of a crater caused by an asteroid that hit earth 65 million years ago. As a space geologist, Adriana compares craters that exist on other planets with ones that are known to exist on earth. We will conduct hands-on experiments that investigate geology. The final day of the series will include a field trip to the Gilboa Museum to view some of the world’s oldest fossilized trees."
Good stuff, great facility, if a little far north for us.
2. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
Located on 153 acres of land near the Hudson River in Tivoli, New York, at a historic site (the former estate of Eleanor Roosevelt’s grandparents), Kaatsbaan hosts dance residencies, performances, and an "extreme ballet" summer camp for dancers aged 14-plus.
We went to a well-attended free rehearsal of the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, which will perform for paying audiences this weekend.
The dance was energetic, the space capacious, but I appreciated the response of my kids: "I hate watching other people dance. They should just let everyone who wants to, get up and dance."
Joining the performance was ruby-throated vocalist Bente Kahan, a "Jewish-Norwegian performing artist, whose production company Teater Dybbuk - Oslo, aims to convey Jewish-European culture and history through drama and music." She sang two heartbreaking songs about the loss of home and family.
This is one of those great nonprofits that is combining land stewardship with a compatible mission, and we'll be going back for more, whether my kids want to or not.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Food Flower for a Happy Spring!
I've been reading a good macrobiotic food book, The Self-Healing Cookbook by Kristina Turner. Just reading her lists of yin and yang veggies had me off to the market for some roots and shoots I haven't eaten in a while.
In back, there's a really cool food mandala, I guess you'd call it. Others have criticized the "food pyramid" concept and I felt it was time to revise mine, so I made a food flower. Here's a discussion of different food guide shapes suggested by kids. In my opinion, everyone should make their own guide with its own shape, including the foods that make them feel best, in the amounts that make them feel best. I should have put kombucha in the blue ring instead of with the 'tiny amounts' foods in the petals, but otherwise this is my ideal diet.
In back, there's a really cool food mandala, I guess you'd call it. Others have criticized the "food pyramid" concept and I felt it was time to revise mine, so I made a food flower. Here's a discussion of different food guide shapes suggested by kids. In my opinion, everyone should make their own guide with its own shape, including the foods that make them feel best, in the amounts that make them feel best. I should have put kombucha in the blue ring instead of with the 'tiny amounts' foods in the petals, but otherwise this is my ideal diet.
Monday, March 24, 2008
The Cherry Orchard
I am please to be spending cherry blossom season in this production of Jean-Claude van Itallie's translation of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. I will play the part of Charlotta Ivanovna.
My favorite birthday present (back in December) was the 13-volume Constance Garnett translation of Chekhov's stories. One for a desert island Top 10.
Homeschoolers take note: there will be a school performance at 10 am on April 16—call the theater and say Oswegatchie sent you and you can reserve seats at $7 a pop.
My favorite birthday present (back in December) was the 13-volume Constance Garnett translation of Chekhov's stories. One for a desert island Top 10.
Homeschoolers take note: there will be a school performance at 10 am on April 16—call the theater and say Oswegatchie sent you and you can reserve seats at $7 a pop.
Friday, March 07, 2008
It is what it is.
This overused tautology is my latest candidate for the AARP (American Association for Retired Phrases); it is merely a screen for pervasive anxiety that might as well be specified, to wit: it is terrifying, exhausting, draining, poignant. It moves me to tears, to rage, to vengefulness. It is remarkable, fantastic, outrageous. Let's start saying what it really is, instead of feigning the detachment we all aspire to but aren't likely to attain, if we're honest, in this lifetime.
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