Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

Creating tablescapes ahead on show

Information on creating different tablescapes and building a whole food-healthy kitchen on a budget will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and noon Thursday.

Interior decorator Latriece Brooks will show how to use fall accessories and create three different tablescapes using what you currently have on hand. This concept will work regardless of the season or time of year. Brooks’ company is Brooks Interior and she lives in Clovis.

Author Maria Bernardis will share ten ways to build a whole food/healthy kitchen on a budget. She suggests buying local and at farmers’ markets, making nutritional substitutions and buying in bulk. Her book is titled “Cooking and Eating: Wisdom for Better Health” and she lives in New York city.

Information on making box top curtains and doing hardanger embroidery will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday, February 22nd at 12:00 noon and on Saturday, February 26th at 2:00 p.m. (All times are Mountain).

Designer and sewing expert, Jana Beus, Simplicity Pattern Co, will show how to make “Box Top” curtains, which feature unique folded squares to create a number of different window treatments. She’s from Salt Lake City, Utah..

Laura Waterfield is the owner of Laura’s Sewing Studio in Tomball,Texas. She explains that hardanger embroidery is a form of cutwork that originated years ago in Norway. She will show how to create the cutwork areas on the machine which saves time and reinforces the items for years of enjoyment.

Cooking and eating wisdom

Cooking & Eating Wisdom for Better Health gives readers all the tools and know-how needed to cook joyfully, with agape (Greek word for unconditional love), and eat for longevity. It teaches you how to cook intuitively using ingredients that harmonize your body and mind. Cooking and eating will become a time to celebrate, a joyful experience, a time to connect with yourself, a time to awaken to new experiences and time to heal. You can begin to explore and rediscover the pharmacy of nature for personal healing instead of the pharmacy.

The ancient Greeks had an emphasis on cooking spiritually rather than stressfully. Positive Affirmations were used by the ancient Greeks to look at the world and life from a positive frame of mind and to promote healing within.

The second section features some key ingredients and their healing benefits noted by Hippocrates and other ancients that they used in their cooking and in potions to heal health conditions. Healthy eating and a healthy mind were the two key components practiced by the ancient Greeks to ensure healthy living and longevity - “Let medicine be thy food and food thy medicine. The natural force within each of us is the greatest healer of disease.” Hippocrates. Many people during these times lived up to the age of 200 years old - a rare occurrence these days.

Hippocrates’s carrot soup

4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

2 leeks, white part only, thinly sliced

2 pounds (1 kg carrots), peeled and chopped

3 stalks celery, thinly chopped

4 cups (1 litre) vegetable or chicken stock

1 cup flat-leaf (Italian) parsley, plus 2 tablespoons extra, to garnish

2 teaspoons chopped thyme leaves

1-2 teaspoons ground cumin

sea salt and cracked black pepper, to taste

6 Tablespoons plain Greek-style yogurt, to garnish

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the leek, carrot and celery and cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, for 5-8 minutes or until the vegetables start to soften. Add the stock, parsley, thyme, cumin, salt and pepper and mix well. Cover and bring to a low simmer and cook for 20-25 minutes or until the carrots are very tender. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool slightly. Place the cooked vegetables into a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Return the soup to the saucepan and heat over medium-high until hot. Ladle the soup into serving bowls and season with a tablespoon of yogurt and the extra parsley. Serve while still hot. Serves 6.

“Creative Living” is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the United States, Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink, Albuquerque, NM.

 
 
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