Upcoming Events | Workshops & Presentations
Mendocino Paradox: Sustainable Food and Wine Weekend
A Rejuvenating Sea-Side Cooking and Feasting Retreat
for Food, Wine and Sea Lovers
Retreat includes 2 days of Hands-On Cooking and Feasting, Sustainable Product Sampling, Paired Wine Tastings, Wine Blessing/Restructuring, Relaxation Strategies, Nature Walks, Morning Stretch, and Food & Health Discussions with Sheila Fetzer and Linda Prout
Plus 2 Nights Ocean-view Lodging* on
the Mendocino Coast
October 1, 2, & 3, 2010
Join us and cook, taste, feast, relax and learn with a Mendocino County heritage ranching and wine-producing family and nutritionist-gourmand.
Learn Culinary Wisdom: Taste sustainable wines and local summer small plates perfectly paired for flavor intensity and physical balance (please your palate and protect your liver). Discover how sustainable food choices can energize and heal, protect your organs, and stimulate your senses with uncommonly pleasurable textures, colors, and flavors.
Participate in preparation of simple Turkish-style mezes, summer salads, mini grass-fed beef burgers, garlicky greens, fresh pesto, pates, soup and more. Learn gourmands’ tricks for quick, tasty meals. Nourish your spirit with stories, songs, nature walks and energy medicine.
Experience your own heart energy and how it can alter flavors (and quality, structure) of food and wine, as well as your health.
Mendocino Paradox Retreat Overview
Friday October 1:
3pm Check in: B&B Hotel*, Westport, Mendocino County
5pm: Welcome
Saturday October 2:
9:30am: Morning Stretch & Energy Medicine for Balance
10:15-1:15pm: Simple, Sumptuous Summer Lunches:
Hands-On Cooking Plus Strategies for Quick Meals
Menu
Quick, energizing garlicky greens
Grilled and chilled Summer salad
Grilling Summer Vegetables
Sustainable Product Show & Tell & Sample
1:15pm: Ocean-View Lunch and Discussion
Discussion: Blessing food, “energy” and food, healthy meals on the go, lunches for energy
2:15-3:30pm: Relaxation Strategies, Nature Walk, Down Time
Participate in a simple Energy Medicine technique to quiet your mind and body, enjoy nearby nature trails or take a nap.
3:30-5:30pm Pairing and Blessing Wine For Flavor and Health
Hands-On Cooking, Wine Tasting & Mini Feast
Discussion: Properly paired food with wine can protect the liver and ease the heating effects of alcohol on the body while enhancing wine and food flavors.
Wine Blessing – Experience a demonstrable flavor-boost in wine and lift in your own spirits with this pleasurable blessing.
Mendocino Small Plates Paired with Wines
Menu
Sustainable Cheeses
Roasted tomato soup with pesto
Ultra-rich pates and mousses – ready-made samples
Mini grass-fed Masut beef burgers with pesto
Sunday October 3:
9:30am: Morning Stretch & Energy Medicine for Balance
10:15-1:30pm: Turkish Mezes for Flavor and Healing
Hands on Cooking, Meze Techniques and Feasting
Menu
Turkish Eggplant Salad
Turkish Meze Greens
Cacik – Yogurt dip
Farmer's Market Special
Kofte with Masut grass fed beef
1:30pm: Turkish-Style Lunch and Discussion
Discussion: Mediterranean Diet: Ingredients, Disease Prevention & Longevity
3:30 or 4pm Beach time or Nature Walk, Relaxation Strategies and Closing
Fee: $690 per person based on double occupancy. Includes all taxes. Add $165 (plus tax) for single supplement. Double rooms with no ocean view discounted $45 per person.
Includes: 2 nights Ocean-View lodging*; all meals; wine notes, pairing and tasting; hands-on cooking instruction; product sampling; nutrition therapy discussions; recipes, guided beach walks; relaxation strategies; and Masut Ranch and Vineyards cooking apron.
Location: Juan Creek Fetzer Home and Overnight at nearby B&B in Westport, Mendocino County
* Ocean view rooms are limited to mostly queen and king bed rooms. Double rooms with 2 beds, but with no ocean view are available and discounted $45 per person.
Your Hosts: Second generation wine producing family member, Sheila Fetzer, Gourmet Food Therapist, Linda Prout, MS.
Sheila Fetzer
Sheila has been involved in wine production and ranch life in Mendocino county for over 30 years, beginning with her late husband, Robert Fetzer, the well known Mendocino vintner.
After the sale of the wildly successful Fetzer Vineyards, Robert, Sheila and their two sons bought the 8000 acre Masut Ranch in northern Mendocino and pursued their own vision of planting organic grapes and raising pastured cattle with integrity, hands-on quality and respectful living.
Together with her sons, today Sheila runs the ranch with a creative spirit and passion for art and music. The family dream of building a small winery was recently completed and this year marks the premiere release of Masut Pinot Noir, a long awaited Estate grown and bottled organic wine.
Sheila’s passion for sustainable wine, food and living shines through in her renown gourmet gala events for wine customers, ranch guests, hunting retreats, and other social groups held at the ranch. Sheila uses locally produced, sustainable ingredients to create memorable feasts with a festive-earthy style and spirit.
For more information, and to register,
call 707-495-7166
or email linda@lindaprout.com.
Burn Fat, Boost Energy, Be Well -
a Four-Part Teleclass, with Linda Prout, MS
4 Thursdays: April 22, 29, May 6, 13: 4-5:15pm PST
Enjoy this class right from home. You will learn:
Strategies for Boosting Metabolism -
* How to be a natural fat-burner without cutting calories.
* How foods can stimulate or slow metabolism.
* Avoiding environmental factors that slow fat-burning.
* How tap water slows thyroid and can cause disease.
* How thoughts and beliefs impact health and metabolism.
Good Fat/Bad Fat -
* How fats can promote health and fat loss.
* Fats and your body type.
* How fats restore youthful skin, brain, bones and organs.
* How common oils lead to sluggishness and weight gain.
* How to use the right fats for optimum fat-burning, heart health and increased energy.
Cutting Sugar Cravings - Sugar: the #1 Craved Food Among Women
* A key breakfast strategy to cut afternoon sugar cravings
* Natural ways to boost energy to curb the sugar urge.
* Supplements and foods to stop chocolate cravings.
* Supplements, foodsto regulate blood sugar and cravings.
* How sugar feeds cancer cells and fat storage.
Efficient Exercise -
* What exercise do you really need? How often? How long?
* Can too much exercise cause weight gain?
* How to use exercise more effectively than antidepressants.
* How to use exercise to relieve fatigue and boost energy.
* How to motivate your self to move.
The 15-Minute Healthy Gourmet: Tips for Fabulously Healthy Meals in Minutes -
* Quick and sumptuous sauces
* Delectable and speedy vegetable ideas (even kids like)
* Simple, healthy gourmet family meals
* How to shop affordably and stock your kitchen for success. (Plus get coupons for high-end gourmet essentials.)
This class includes strategies for manifesting your body to it's perfect health, fitness level and size. Your food choices together with your mind shape your body, not diet alone.
Class cost: $150/
earlybird discount $125 if enrolled by April 5
Email or call 541-485-2500
Launch Your Liver Cleanse
With this 3 part teleclass workshop
Monday mornings: May 3, 10, 17; 10-11:15am.
Signs you need a liver cleanse
Allergies
Hayfever
Red or itching eyes
Overweight
Headaches
Irritability
Depression
Bloating
Indigestion
Tendon issues
Learn to make:
* a powerful liver detox tea, customized to your constitution
* a morning citrus cocktail
* fresh cooked vegetable and soup dishes (delicious anytime), flavor-rich pesto
Plus, lean “how to’s” of liver detox:
Herbs and supplements that stimulate liver cleansing and healing
Tips for lymph stimulation
Healing oils, vegetables and fruits for a cleanse
Tips for maintaining liver health in a
toxic world including natural
Cleaning products made from your food pantry
Recipes will delight family and friends all Spring
Cream of Spring Greens Soup
Whipped Cauliflower Puree
Cilantro/Parsley Pesto
Gingered Snow Peas
Spring Vegetable Mushroom Saute
Cilantro-parsley pesto
Class cost: $75. Must enroll by April 25.
Email: Linda@lindaprout.com
or call 541-485-2500
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