Folks know I'm usually pretty good for a returned favor. This post is a bit like that because it's tootin the horn of a friend who started this whole Trailer Park Karma mess, sort of.
She doesn't know it, but Mira Dessy's always-on-target-uber-good-for-you cooking is w
hat led me here. That, and that personality of hers. She's just so damned friendly to begin with, the really genuine kind, and then her head is so crammed with data bits about what food will kill you and which will cure what ails you. Anyway, on a particularly beerful Saturday night a few months back, Mira published one of her recipes for making good use of eggplant, and I wanted to try it, but I didn't have all the ingredients. I NEVER have all of the things that Mira uses! Then I was overcome by one of those moods of mine, and I just had to prove that I could make an edible (if not healthy) version of her Eggplant Fritters -- and Trailer Park Karma started germinating.
So, it's payback time.
Listen up. Mira's going to be speaking on Saturday, February 20, 7 PM at Romano's Macaroni Grill in The Woodlands about Vitamin D & Your Healthy Heart: The Why's & How's.
I asked Ms. Certified Nutrition Educator a few questions about her Vitamin D gig:
Me: Okay, I know everybody has their particular opinions (to which they're entitled, sure) about folks here in The Park and our idea of what's good eatin. Truth is, we're not all raised on corn chips and beer. Some of us even eat vegetables almost every day.
So -- you're going to be talking about one of my favorite vitamins, that being Vitamin D. I like it because it's so easy to get. We all love milk in my house.
But really -- a whole hour to talk about one vitamin? Can't you just hand out a nice list of what to eat and be done with it?
Me: You know, I really appreciate when an expert such as yourself speaks plainly to me, Mira. But frankly, I'd rather run around butt nekkid. If I did, and I kept drinking milk, too, would I get an overload of D? I know that can happen with some vitamins -- you get too much of a good thing and your brain cells fry faster than they were when you were ingesting strange chemicals in high school. And wouldn't that almost be like getting cancer anyway? You get too much vitamin D in your body and then everything goes to hell in a handbasket...
Me: Wow, Mira, you really do cut loose when addressing a topic that floats your boat! That's good to know -- sometimes when you're writing about Ezekiel flour and cane juice crystals over at your blog Grains&More, I feel so unworthy of calling myself a 'cook'. But then, you did just recently rescue some biscuits and proceed to write about it like you were telling everybody about how you'd accidentally dyed your white lingerie pink.
I may not be making my own flour anytime soon, but I can definitely hang with a girl who knows how to take scrap food and make it into pie.
She doesn't know it, but Mira Dessy's always-on-target-uber-good-for-you cooking is w
So, it's payback time.
Listen up. Mira's going to be speaking on Saturday, February 20, 7 PM at Romano's Macaroni Grill in The Woodlands about Vitamin D & Your Healthy Heart: The Why's & How's.
I asked Ms. Certified Nutrition Educator a few questions about her Vitamin D gig:
Me: Okay, I know everybody has their particular opinions (to which they're entitled, sure) about folks here in The Park and our idea of what's good eatin. Truth is, we're not all raised on corn chips and beer. Some of us even eat vegetables almost every day.
So -- you're going to be talking about one of my favorite vitamins, that being Vitamin D. I like it because it's so easy to get. We all love milk in my house.
But really -- a whole hour to talk about one vitamin? Can't you just hand out a nice list of what to eat and be done with it?
Mira: Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, helps our bones and brains and stuff. Even helps protect against different kinds of cancer. Doesn't mean we get to run around butt nekkid for that all important sun exposure. Sure ya gotta get enough sunshine but eating the right foods is important too (and it's more than moo juice.) Come on down, eat, drink and listen to learn how much you need and how to get it.
Me: You know, I really appreciate when an expert such as yourself speaks plainly to me, Mira. But frankly, I'd rather run around butt nekkid. If I did, and I kept drinking milk, too, would I get an overload of D? I know that can happen with some vitamins -- you get too much of a good thing and your brain cells fry faster than they were when you were ingesting strange chemicals in high school. And wouldn't that almost be like getting cancer anyway? You get too much vitamin D in your body and then everything goes to hell in a handbasket...
Mira: Running around butt nekkid is only gonna get you a really bad sunburn (well, that and mebbe a ticket for indecent exposure.) Unless yer taking prescription vitamin D, it's purty tough to get too much cause our bodies cain't hang on to it (that's why we need it so much.) And that sunburn yore gonna get will cause cancer. But if ya don't got enough vitamin D, you are at a higher risk for breast cancer, colorectal cancer and even brain cancer. Nasty stuff. Better to get the vitamins, come to the lecture, and find out what ya really need to know.
Me: Wow, Mira, you really do cut loose when addressing a topic that floats your boat! That's good to know -- sometimes when you're writing about Ezekiel flour and cane juice crystals over at your blog Grains&More, I feel so unworthy of calling myself a 'cook'. But then, you did just recently rescue some biscuits and proceed to write about it like you were telling everybody about how you'd accidentally dyed your white lingerie pink.
I may not be making my own flour anytime soon, but I can definitely hang with a girl who knows how to take scrap food and make it into pie.
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