Yogaliscous is Cooking

As fall sets in Mcallen Texas, my yogis and yoginis  do our weekly ritual yoga in the park followed by Farmers Market at Alambra. 

Farmers' Market in McAllen inside the Alhambra Restaurant, Bar, and Hookah Lounge, a market that you may have read about in The Monitor newspaper. I have been invited to come and cook on saturday mornings with Chef James Canter. You might have read about Canter's farm to table dinners.

Anyone that knows me knows that I love to cook and I especially love to cook healthy meals. I am active in Yoga Zumba Dance and MMA boot camp training, but do you know how hard it is to eat healthy and turn away the wonderful food South Texas has to offer after a vigorous work out. I have learned to get very creative making healthy meals and some not so healthy meals. South Texas is the only place you can go to a Yoga studio grand opening  be served Roast Beef and Chicken Mole sandwiches with wine.

Cooking is what makes us human. It’s by bringing food to fire that humans have evolved way beyond what would have been possible at the slow pace of natural selection.

As it happens, the yogis of the Vedas had a similar idea. As Douglas Brooks likes to remark, the word “yoga” is first used in the Rg Veda in the compound “Yogakshema“, which is to say that Yoga is Cooking. Yoga is the process by which we take the raw ingredients of ourselves and, by bringing the fire of our passions into the fire of our practice. You already have all of the raw ingredients you need, so just light the fire to begin cooking!

The Texas Food Revolution is the Texas Valley's hottest weekly food celebration. You'll find so much at farmers market. Get meats, vegetables and farm eggs grown and raised within a hundred mile radius, plus fresh-squeezed juices, olive-oil tamales, a daring market brunch, French pastries, healthy deserts and other scrumptious treats that support the local small farm and food economy.

Join me Every Saturday at 10am-1pm at the Market at Alhambra, 519 S. 17th, McAllen.