Dinner For One Alternative - Recipe - Healthy Beef Stew

Here are a few tips to save you from the sorrows of no-love food:

Get it! If you have time, you are in the best city for shopping There are an abundance of natural food stores in NYC -- Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and plenty of mom and pop health food stores (my favorite is A Matter Of Health on 77th St. and 1st. Avenue). Find a list of green markets where the food is local, in season and mostly organic. If you are too busy to shop, you can order groceries and have them delivered. Try Diamond Organics - this site has everything from organic beer to every kind of vegetable – they even sell prepared foods surely made with love and while you are there you can send someone you care for an organic floral bouquet!

Take a class! Taking a cooking class is a fantastic way to learn the skills to nourish yourself and hopefully nourish that special lady sometime soon. As the cliché goes, “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” but I must say from experience that I have been seduced by perfectly poached fish with morel sauce at least once. There are few things sexier than watching a man cook, his brow glistening as he tastes his creation, knowing that it’s all for me. I will let you in on a secret that all mothers tell their daughters: “You do not go over to a man’s house for dinner unless you intend to be the dessert.” If a lady is at your house and you are cooking, it is almost guaranteed action. Here are two great places to take a cooking class; The Natural Gourmet School, www.andreabeaman.com

Try something simple. A one pot meal is a great place to start. For winter, I fancy stews and find that they are a fool proof choice.

This creamy beef stew will warm you up and call you back for seconds! (See Sidebar)

I know that by following these simple techniques you are now changing your gastronomic fate. You are taking the necessary steps to foster the kind of powerhouse nutrition that gets you through grueling office days and times of isolation. You are giving yourself love and honoring those who have the good fortune to come to your table.
Now go out there and cook something damn it!

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		Donna Sonkin H.H.C., A.A.D.P. Donna Sonkin is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor accredited with the American Association Of Drugless Practitioners. Donna’s “Get Thin For The Camera” program is devoted to helping actors, models and performers of all types achieve their optimum weight through a ‘whole food nutrition’ approach.