Grilling Pizza, Why Cooking is Better than TV and Free Cooking classes
I hope you are all out there enjoying the summer or possibly hiding inside with a fan depending on your sensibilities. Both are very legitimate ways to enjoy the summer months in my opinion so feel no pressure from me to be creating lavish outdoor dinner-scapes!
See, both are good.
For your enjoyment, this week I am sharing an opportunity to do three free cooking classes online with me, sponsored by the Sacramento Public Library. They are going to be Wednesdays in July. Scroll down for details. Then we have a little blurb about the Blissful Cooking experience, a reminder to submit questions for Open Kitchen (I love answering these! please send them) and a podcast about being kind to yourself.
To be just a bit of a 4th of July weekend cliché I have one recommendation. If you are feeling a little ambitious, try making grilled pizza! I love using this method of pizza making, but don’t currently have a grill so cannot prepare a tutorial for you. One day perhaps!
Reasons to make pizza on the grill:
The grill gets hotter than your home oven and this is key to good crust.
It doesn’t heat up your house in the summer.
Grill marks on the dough!
It’s fun.
Tips for Success:
Have your mise en place seriously ready so you can move quickly. (This means prepare all your toppings and dough to be ready for when you are grilling so you can just focus on the task at hand)
Be sparing with the toppings.
Make extra dough in case you lose one to the grill gods.
Move with confidence.
And follow the guide below!
Until I make my own please check out this lovely guide by Ambitious Kitchen.
Want to learn to love Cooking as much as you like watching TV?
The blissful cooking method that I teach in the weekly classes will help you to reframe cooking, find pleasure and embrace simplicity so you can meet your goals to get dinner on the table and feed yourself. BUT, in time you learn to enjoy cooking more than you like doing other things, like watching tv! Crazy I know, but I have experienced this phenomenon in my own body, and witnessed other people’s journeys so I know it’s true.
Here is an example class from a few weeks ago where I made a beautiful noodle salad, but the rice noodles stuck together and I talked through how to make the best of it. These are not manicured classes, they are cooking in real life. I model how to find pleasure in the real-life, beautiful, messy process of cooking that is our birthright to enjoy! How do we solve the problems that inevitably come up, how to we accept them and see mistakes as a way to learn and grow? It’s all here in the kitchen and what we build there comes with us into the rest of our lives.
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Building Confidence in the Kitchen - Free Class Series with me and the Sacramento Public Library
The Sacramento Public Library is running an amazing program over the summer to provide lunches to kids who might miss out on school lunch during the summer. Additionally they are providing boxes of produce, some cooking lessons, and copies of my book, Good and Cheap to families visiting the library during the summer!
Then for 3 weeks in July, the 12th, 19th and 26th I will be doing a free online cooking series. It is going to be all about building confidence in the kitchen and beyond and will feature recipes from my book Good and Cheap and tons of useful information.
Open Kitchen, Submit a question!
Open Kitchen is the feature where I answer your kitchen/yoga/meditation and anything else in my wheelhouse questions! Please submit your questions for Open Kitchen through this form. The questions will be anonymous so no need to think twice about anything embarrassing. Remember, chances are if you are wondering something or having an experience there are many others who are as well and when you have the courage to ask the question you help all those other people too.Lastly, a good time was had on this lovely Podcast about being kind to yourself. Truly if you want to understand more about what I do give this a listen. This is so much more than cooking.
Finally, here is a sweet podcast I did with Julianna Parker. It’s all about how we can be our own best friend and really nurture ourselves through the act of cooking and feeding ourselves. If you want to understand my philosophy more, give it a listen.