LIFESTYLE → FROM MY TABLE Issue 824 · August 17, 2020

From My Table

If you love this kind of healthful dinner, pay attention to the method and try winging it next time with a new vegetable, protein, or flavor provider. The sky’s the limit

From My Table

 

Quick; throw fruit on the grill! Peaches and pineapple do particularly well with some smokeyness

It is a truth universally acknowledged that people love to talk about food.

Lately, however, there seems to be a common thread. Whether I’m on the carpool line, in shul on Yom Tov, or at the supermarket checkout, I hear the ever-popular refrain: “I just need some healthy recipes.” Almost in the same breath comes the predictable second half of that sentence: “But healthy food takes so much time…”

Cooking healthfully somehow has a reputation for being time-consuming and laborious. You picture yourself cleaning endless vegetables and checking a never-shrinking pile of herbs. But I don’t get it. To me, it doesn’t seem any more time-consuming than hand-grated potato kugel, or making apple crisp. It’s just di­fferent.

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