First up is Jill Nussinow, MS. RD. and AKA the “Veggie Queen.” Jill has a new book; The New Fast Food – The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals…In Less than 30 minutes.
A Pressure Cooker Can Change Your Life Discover how you can make delicious meals in minutes using just one pot. Let Jill, The Veggie Queen™, show you how easy and safe it is to make flavorful, healthy plant-based meals with vegetables, grains, beans and other legumes and fruit. With a pressure cooker, you can save time and money, lock in flavor and nutrition, decrease your energy costs and avoid a messy kitchen with only one pot to clean! Jill will show you how you can cut cooking time in half (or more!) compared to conventional stove top cooking. In The New Fast Food™, you’ll learn how to choose and use a pressure cooker, with timing charts for your favorite plant foods. You’ll also find more than 100 recipes for everything from breakfast to dessert. Most of the recipes are gluten-free and all are vegan. The New Fast Food™ offers fast, colorful and tasty dishes such as: Orange Glazed Broccoli with Carrots and Kale Mashed Maple Winter Squash with Cinnamon Lemony Lentil and Potato Chowder Smoky Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili Coconut Almond Risotto.
In the second half I’ll be talking to Bob “The Fish Guy” Reany. Bob is a professional Fish Monger (with 40 years experience) at Whole Foods Market in Denver. I had the pleasure of watching Bob win the Whole Foods Fish Monger Face Off in Aspen in June.
Bob with The Golden Trident
After weeks of fierce regional competitions among top Whole Foods Market fishmongers across the country, 11 finalists competed in the first-ever national Fishmonger Face-Off at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen on June 16. Following an impressive round of battles, the golden trident trophy was presented to Bob “The Fish Guy” Reany from Denver.
We’ll tell you a little about Whole Foods, what Bob’s job is all about and Bob will share some tips for buying, storing, preparing and enjoying sea food.
Then, Galaxy of Stars Master of Ceremonies Rene Steven joins us to talk about this year’s event.
What began as a simple idea in 2008 has grown into one of Wichita’s most anticipated annual events. In 2008 Spangles’ Rene Steven, Davis Moore’s Dawson Grimsley and the Board of Directors for Senior Services, Inc. of Wichita organized a local celebrity roast in three very short months. The audience left thrilled and anxiously awaiting the Susan Peters roast of 2009. Word quickly spread that “A Galaxy of Stars” was exciting, original and fresh. Now, four years and five roasts later, “A Galaxy of Stars” has raised significant funding and awareness for the programs of Senior Services, Inc. of Wichita. It remains the most successful fundraising event in our agency’s history! “A Galaxy of Stars” helps thousands of seniors in a multitude of ways. Seniors are able to remain independent and living in their own homes because our programs provide proper nutrition, caregiver relief, social, recreational and physical fitness, minor home repair and maintenance and meaningful employment.
A Galaxy of Stars 2012
A Celebrity Roast and Tribute of Nola Foulston Hosted by Rene Steven
Nola Foulston
Friday, August 3, 2012
The Drury Plaza Broadview Hotel
6:00pm – Red Carpet Ceremony
7:30pm – Dinner
8:00pm – Roast
Please join us in saluting Wichita District Attorney Nola Foulston in an evening of entertainment, laughter and fun – all for a wonderful cause.
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2009 Edna Valley Vineyard Paragon Chardonnay
This Chardonnay captures the essence of the Edna Valley, showcasing complex peach, pear and tropical flavors that have developed slowly on the vine. A refined, terroir-driven minerality dances through the silky midpalate, joined by caramel, clove and cinnamon. Gentle winemaking leaves a subtle impression of creaminess and balances the bright fruit that carries through the finish. A wine that offers a little bit of everything, this appealing Chardonnay pairs with a variety of foods such as salmon with lentil salad, chicken tagine or pasta with spring peas and pancetta.
Taste this wine Saturday July 14 at Jacob Liquor Exchange on North Rock Road between Noon – 8:00 p.m. Tell them Good Life Guy sent you!