148: Get cooking
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
As evening approaches, we ask ourselves "What should we have for dinner?" Exhausted from a full day of work, we try to come up with something semi-decent to put on the table. Sometimes we punt and order take-out or fast food. Twenty-four hours later, the same scenario crops up again. Cooking instructor and expert Nevra Ledwon suggests that there is a better way to go about providing healthy meals for ourselves and our families.
In episode #147, Nevra talked about "why" we should get cooking. Today, she gets into the "how." She walks us through a week of cooking and shows us how simple it can be, with just a little forethought and planning. She gives us strategies for using what food we have on hand, ideas for involving the family in meal planning, and tips for avoiding our perfectionistic tendencies that make us stress about getting a dish exactly right. Novices and cooking veterans alike will glean ideas from Nevra's clear guidance. She shows us how cooking can truly be a joy and a wonderful tool for deep nourishment and lasting health.
For more on Nevra, visit her blog: churnyourown.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The work that you do for cooking, for preparing and creating something with your hands, |
| 0:04.8 | it has this interesting side effect of bringing happiness and joy to humans. |
| 0:10.0 | I really believe this. People I know who cook, they're happy people. And you know, when they serve |
| 0:16.1 | you a meal that they've cooked themselves, yeah, they're a little bit tired, but they're smiling and they have that glow of I did it I made this. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the wise. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast sponsored by the Westinay Price Foundation for |
| 0:37.3 | Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the Healing Arts. We are your source for |
| 0:41.9 | scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm your host, Kilda Labrathor. This is episode 148 and my guest is |
| 0:56.3 | Nevra Ledwin again. Yes, Nevra is the cooking professional who we spoke with |
| 1:01.4 | last week. She runs one of the DC area's largest |
| 1:04.8 | farm-buying clubs and she teaches cooking classes for all ages. Of course she |
| 1:09.6 | runs a tight kitchen. That's why we've invited Never back to the show. Last week she gave us the |
| 1:15.1 | why behind cooking and this week we're going to get a bit more of the how. She |
| 1:20.8 | literally walks us through a week in the nitty gritty life of a cook. |
| 1:25.0 | She teaches us how to use what's on hand, how to prepare varied and interesting meals, |
| 1:30.0 | and she talks about the benefits of meal planning. |
| 1:32.0 | I have to be honest with you, usually when people and she talks about the benefits of meal planning. |
| 1:33.0 | I have to be honest with you, usually when people say the words meal planning, |
| 1:36.4 | my eyes roll back into my head. |
| 1:38.5 | It sounds super boring. |
| 1:40.2 | But the truth is, if we're up for making plans for the weekend, why wouldn't we make plans for what we're going to eat? |
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