Groovy Kitchen Playlist

So, as my neighbors to the north with a view of my kitchen window can attest, this really is a groovy kitchen.  I love nothing more than to throw on my apron and some great tunes and bust out a couple moves while I make dinner.  I'm sure I give the neighbors a good laugh with their dinner every nite since I love to twist like it's 1953 and I consider the running man to be one of my best moves.  Hey, we can't all be Beyonce.  Anyways, here are my current top three albums to get your culinary groove on.

1.  The Gossip-The singer Beth Ditto has a powerful voice (I may have sung along into my spoon a time or two) and the beats beg to be danced to.

2.  Wild Belle- I acutally discovered these guys while listening to NPR in my kitchen (my go to when the MP3 player is dead).  They are a brother/sister duo.  The sis brings a sweet voice I feel I can somewhat replicate and the bro provides some awesome saxamaphone.  If a round of air sax doesn't bring a smile to your face then you need to work on your life.

3.  Matisyahu-I just love a little reggae beat in the kitchen, and all the better (at least weirder) when it is delivered by a Hasidic Jew.  I love the lyrics to Chop 'Em Down, totally speaks to modern society's destructive tendencies...or something deep like that.

 

 

Well, I'm off the practice my worm.  What are on your playlists right now?

Welcome, Let's Get Groovy!!

I've racked my brain for many months for the perfect name for this blog.  It finally hit me as I lay in bed last night thinking of the mozzarella I would be making today and the horror movie I had just watched.  (Note: do not think about cheese and ghosts before you drift off, you will have some weird dreams.)  I may as well just admit to myself and the rest of the world that, deep down, I am a hippie and I just want life to be groovy. 

Take my recent addiction to yoga.  Or the fact that a batch of homemade granola is now a weekly tradition in my house.  And believe me this isn't a recent phenomenon.  I still remember the shirt I wore to the first day of 3rd grade with huge purple bubble letters spelling "groovy".  I still fail to understand why all the other kids didn't bow down to my awesomeness.  Oh well, I guess we can't all be groovy.  And a final point since I'm traveling down memory lane here.  Some of the best times of my teenagehood where walking with my best friend down the main street of our small town throwing peace signs to see how many we would get back.  (Hint:  In small town, red state Wyoming, the answer is not many.)

My goal with this site is to share my love of food...real food. My definition of that is still in progress.  I'm not going to preach about eating only organic or putting chia seeds in your tea.  I'm inspired by my grandma's kitchen, where the eggs came from chickens she had met and hashbrowns were hand cut each Sunday for my grandpa.  I would hate for such great memories to be obliterated by Big Macs and sucralose.  So, I'm going to keep making more of those memories and I hope you will join me.  Let's see where this journey takes us.

Peace and Love-B