Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

Pain relief ahead on show

Information on relieving pain, substitutes for nightshades and how to make a Mug Rug will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday (all times Mountain).

Daniel Marez is a doctor of Oriental medicine in Raton, and he has written a book on relieving pain. He’s going to share his journey from being a licensed optician to becoming a healer and acupuncturist.

Nightshades are a category of vegetables, and Carol Fenster, a nutritionist and author, will demonstrate some substitutes for potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and others that many people cannot eat because they contain an alkaloid that may promote joint inflammation. Her company is Savory Palate, LLC in Centennial, Colorado.

Clare Rowley is the President of Creative Feet LLC, and she’s going to demonstrate using leather and home décor fabrics to make a Mug Rug, which is a coffee cup coaster. She’ll feature the Pearls ‘n Piping Foot as well as the Satinedge presser foot to do this technique. She’s from Prescott Valley, Arizona.

Information on tapestry crochet and homemade beauty treatments will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” noon Tuesday and 2 p.m. Saturday.

Carol Ventura is a professor of art at the Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. Ventura is also an expert at tapestry crochet, and she will demonstrate how to use tapestry crochet graph paper to design various motifs.

Sandy Grettenberger, owner of LorAnn Oils in Lansing, Michigan, will show how to make high-end body treatments like those found in luxury spas and salons so we can enjoy them at home. They also make great gift-giving ideas.

Nightshade substitutes

Nightshades are a category of vegetables that include potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. The term nightshade may result from the fact that they like to grow in the shade and bloom or flower at night.

Some people avoid nightshades because they contain an alkaloid called solanine which is thought to promote joint inflammation. Arthritis in the most common but there may be other conditions that respond to a nightshade-free diet. Nightshades play an important role in American diets, especially two of them: potatoes for mashed potatoes and tomatoes in Italian food. But there are substitutes.

Mashed potatoes are one of America's favorite side dishes. The good news is that you can make mashed "potatoes" with white cauliflower to create a wonderfully creamy dish that tastes delicious and looks just like mashed potatoes. While cauliflower is strong-flavored (like its cousins broccoli and cabbage) the preparation methods and ingredients in this recipe reduce that strong flavor. Making them into mashed "potatoes" seems to remove this flavor dominance. Steaming is recommended over boiling to preserve important nutrients.

Nutritionally, one cup of cauliflower has only 25 calories with a glycemic index of 15. In contrast, one cup of potatoes has over 4 times the calories (113) and a glycemic index of 76. So, eating cauliflower is a good thing!

Tomatoes are key ingredients in many foods,—such as pizza and pasta sauces—but there are other options. For example, use basil pesto instead of pizza sauce for pizza and in place of marinara for pasta you can buy ready-made pesto or (if lactose intolerant) make your own with dairy-free Parmesan. Or, use hummus spread (avoid roasted red pepper flavor because peppers are nightshades.)

“Creative Living” is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is filmed at KENW-TV in Portales and carried by more than 118 PBS stations. Contact her at: [email protected]

 
 
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