Swing Dancing To a Plant-Based Beat

The Benefits of Pressure Cooking Lentils Lentils are a type of legume that is high in protein, fiber, and nutrients. They are a great source of vegetarian protein and can be used in a variety of dishes. Lentils are also very affordable and easy to cook. One of the best ways to cook lentils is to use a pressure cooker. Pressure cooking lentils can save you time and energy, and it can also help to preserve the nutrients in the lentils. Here are some of the benefits of pressure cooking lentils: It saves time. Pressure cooking lentils can take as little as 10 minutes, compared to 30 minutes or more for traditional cooking methods. This is a great option if you are short on time or if you want to have a quick and easy meal. It saves energy. Pressure cooking uses less energy than traditional cooking methods, which can save you money on your energy bill. It preserves nutrients. Pressure cooking helps to preserve the nutrients in lentils, which is important for people who are looking for a hea

"What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years lie behind us are in death’s hands. Therefore… hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing… is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession. What fools these mortals be! They allow the cheapest and most useless things, which can easily be replaced, to be charged in the reckoning, after they have acquired them; but they never regard themselves as in debt when they have received some of that precious commodity, — time! And yet time is the one loan which even a grateful recipient cannot repay." - Le

In this vegan journey over the last one and a half years, I have created some go-to dishes and spice mixtures that I make on a regular basis for those workday lunches that you are trying to prepare at 6 or 7 in the morning. The first one here is a Tex-Mex Pinto Bean pot that I cook up once every couple of weeks. It is a start to finish dish in my 6 Quart Presto Pressure Cooker . The Spices The spice mixture is the key, I make it in batches and store it in a container in the freezer and use 2 tablespoons per pot. It goes like this: Salt 3.5 Tbsp Cumin 4 Tbsp Chili Powder 2 Tbsp Garlic Powder 2 Tbsp Onion Powder 2 Tbsp Paprika 2 Tbsp Cayenne 1 tsp Thyme 4 tsp Oregano 4 tsp Sugar 2 tsp Buy good beans and give 'em a soaking bath The day before you plan to prepare this dish, soak 2 cups of dry pinto beans in 6 cups of water and 1 tsp salt. I source my organic pinto beans from a local healthy grocer, Ellwood Thompson's Supermarket in Richmond, Va. They have a great

Our family has been vacationing in the Myrtle Beach, SC area for about 55 years or so. During that time we have stayed in cottages, small hotels, big motels, resorts and rental homes. This year (2018) w hile visiting    Garden City, SC  , I had made it a point to get to two restaurants that interested me while planning the trip. On of them was   Pacino's  Mediterranean Grille , in a strip mall just prior to the entrance into the community of Murrel's Inlet . I realized, just an hour prior to creating the appetite, that a reservation was recommended. I called and they offered a 7:30 - 8:00pm time slot, being already hungry I asked was there anywhere where we could sit and sample some of their more interesting menu items. They offered a seat in the kitchen area and I immediately replied "We'll be there in 10 minutes!" and off we went. The very first dish that we tried was the Mujaddara. Not even knowing how to pronounce it, we ordered it to give it a try and we were

In 2Tbsp of olive oil, saute until soft: 2 shallots, chopped Add to that and fry 3-4 minutes: 3 garlic cloves, crushed 1-1\2 pounds mushrooms Add: 4 pieces sun-dried tomatoes in oil, drained and chopped 6Tbsp dry white wine Salt and pepper to taste Stir in: 1 can red kidney beans Bring it up to temp, until most of the liquid has evaporated and the beans have warmed through. Serve over rice or pasta...Enjoy!

The Beginning (Lindy Hop) My wife and I have spent the last couple of years learning and exploring the world of Carolina Shag, the official dance of the state of South Carolina, and what a journey it has been! We started our dancing adventure a little over 5 years ago through some Lindy Hop classes in Williamsburg, thanks to Wendy Lang Craighill and the lindy101.org group. After traveling weekly over to Williamsburg each week, we moved a bit closer to home with what became the Jazz Dance Education Council (JDEC) in Richmond, VA. Although short-lived, this group had a great impact on the vintage swing dance movement in the greater Richmond-metro area by adding many classes and live band swing dances once a month, calling them the R-Town Strutters Ball! JDEC, as the group became known, held classes in several venues throughout Richmond, Va, and offers lessons in Lindy Hop, '20s and '30's Charleston, Balboa, and many other offshoots of swing dances originally performed in

Stopped by our local feed store, Heretick Feed & Seed in Petersburg, back in August to pick up a bunch of collard plants and found out that they would have 17-week old hens in September. So I had them put my name on the call list and began to plan and build the run first. Heretick has been a great resource for feed, straw, pine shaving, diatomaceous earth and many other items that you can use in your urban/suburban homesteading work. I already had the chicken wire at the house, so I stopped by Home Depot and picked up a couple bundles of  2x2's, SPAX screws and went to work on an idea that I had been pondering for a good while now. Instead of building a single box and encasing it in chicken wire, I would build frames and then connect them to form a box. I didn't know how it would work structurally but I was soon gonna find out. So I got to building the frames, two of them 2ft x 8ft and then built six of them 2ft x 4ft. As you can see from the photo, the pieces fit w