Terry's Blog

Dec 21

A Sweet Distraction

Three spoons and one pint of NadaMoo Coconut Milk Ice Cream is how we celebrated the first night of Hanukah…and what a delicious celebration it was!

Let’s face it. When someone asks you to taste test “Coconut Milk Non Dairy Frozen Dessert,” you definitely don’t say no – especially if you want to remain on speaking terms with your children! I have a list a mile long of blog topics I’m “supposed” to be writing about, but instead I have to tell you about last night’s NadaMoo experience.

It started when I removed the lid. Now let me be clear, I’ve never been a fan of coffee, but I love the smell and I LOVE coffee ice cream. But since when does ice cream have an aroma? Well it does now! The aroma of NadaMoo’s Java Crunch was to die for! And as a result, untrue to my regular ways, I completely forgot about reading the ingredients, grabbed a spoon and dove right in! My girls joined me immediately and within minutes (okay, so maybe it was seconds) the entire pint was gone. We have no regrets!

Here are the ingredients: Organic coconut milk, organic agave nectar, organic rice syrup solids, organic inulin, organic espresso, organic cacao nibs, organic guar gum, organic locust bean gum, sea salt. Pretty clean if you ask me, and this incredible ice cream is dairy free, gluten free and vegan!

Needless to say, I am now officially a NadaMoo fan and can’t wait to try “Mmmm…Maple Pecan” tonight!

In the meantime, don’t forget that there are still two weeks left of my Giving Thanks Giveaway and all you need to do to enter is…

1. Write a comment on this post sharing your favorite sweet distraction around the holidays or anytime!

2. “Share” the CLEAN FOOD Facebook page with your friends, or

3. Retweet an @terrywalters tweet on Twitter!

Two more cookbooks will be given away this Friday! Will one of them be for you?

Eat clean live well!

Dec 17

Two More Winners!!

If Pat Sajack can have an assistant, so can I! Drum roll please…

And the winner is…

If your name wasn’t drawn this week, there are still two more opportunities! Remember, it’s not enough to “like” a post. You have to either comment on one of my EAT CLEAN LIVE WELL blog entries, share a CLEAN FOOD Facebook post, or retweet an @terrywalters tweet!

Eat Clean Live Well!

Dec 12

Test Your Clean Food Vocabulary

“We always make sure to spatchcock our capons on the plancha while we make salmagundi on the side.” Don’t you?

This is the opening from last week’s Huffington Post article “50 Words Every Food Lover Should Know.” I failed miserably, identifying fewer than 25% of the terms! Evidently, “burgoo” is not a verb, a jerobaum is not an appropriate substitute for my green smoothies, and I should definitely be calling my family to the table for Fläskpannkaka every time I make pancakes!

In effort to redeem myself, I decided not to study these terms and gain from the knowledge, but rather simply to make a new list! A list that proves that we love not only clean food, but sustainable good health for ourselves and our environment. So, for all of you clean food lovers out there, here’s a list you might be able to relate to even more! How does your clean food knowledge stack up?

A

Arrowroot, Agar, Alkaline, Amaranth, Arame, Antioxidant

B

Braggs

C

Cacao, Clean (of course), CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), Compost, Chew

F

Farro, Free radicals, Farm, Farmer

G

Gomasio, Groats, Gluten, Garbanzo, Genetically engineered

H

Harvest

J

Juicing

L

Local, Living

K

Kombu, Kimchi, Kudzu, Kale

M

Millet, Miso, Mirin, Mochi

N

Nori

O

Organic

Q

Quinoa

R

Raw, Rainbow (of color)

S

Seasonal, Sprouting, Slow

T

Tatsoi, Teff, Tamari, Tahini, Tempeh

U

Ume

W

Wasabi, Wakame, Whole

Y (one extra for indulgence & necessity!)

Yummy

Don’t forget that this is week two of my Giving Thanks Giveway! Two more CLEAN cookbooks will be given away this Friday and all you need to do to be entered into the random drawing is to 1) share or retweet one of my posts on Facebook or Twitter or 2) leave a comment here on my blog. (Prizes can be shipped within the continental US only)

Eat clean live well!