Women Beyond a Certain Age Podcast

Pasta Grannies with Vicky Bennison

This week we have the creator of the incredible Pasta Grannies, Vicky Bennison! Vicky’s YouTube series has nearly two million followers and her first Pasta Grannies cookbook has been translated into six languages.
As well as meat, seafood and vegetable pasta recipes, chapters cover pizzas, pastries and pies, rice, pulses, dairy, herbs, nuts, and spices. Every recipe is accompanied with a QR code which will take you to the YouTube videos of these remarkable women and their recipes. Complete with stunning location and recipe photography, with a clear guide to pasta making by hand, Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking is not only a celebration of cooking and feasting together, but also an insight into their lives, and a joyous slice of the Italian way of life. Scan the QR code to see the Pasta Grannies episode for the recipe below!
 
 
VICKY’S LINKS:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/pastagrannies
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pastagrannies/
Pasta Grannies, Comfort Cooking: https://a.co/d/1HNtGfu
Pasta Grannies, The Official Cookbook: https://a.co/d/9RjLHdD
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pastagrannies
Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/vicky_bennison_fettuccine_and_feminism
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
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Every Ounce of Courage with Betty Ann Quirino

Elizabeth Ann Quirino is back with us this week to talk about her upcoming book, Every Ounce of Courage: A Daughter’s Reflections on Her Mother’s Bravery, a memoir with Filipino recipes.
Betty Ann has published three cookbooks: Instant Filipino Recipes: My Mother’s Traditional Philippine Food in a Multicooker Pot, a follow up to My Mother’s Philippine Recipes, a collection of her late mother’s favorite Filipino classic dishes which Betty Ann transformed to everyday cooking in her American kitchen. She writes the very popular blog, The Quirino Kitchen and has won too many awards to list here. Betty Ann was born and raised in Tarlac, Philippines, and now based in New Jersey, USA. She is also freelance journalist, and food writer.
 
BETTY ANN’S LINKS:
Website: https://thequirinokitchen.com
Blog: https://thequirinokitchen.com/recipe-index/
Books: https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Ann-Besa-Quirino/e/B017QJBW1I/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianInAmericaFilipinoFood
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BettyAnnQuirino
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/TheQuirinoKitchen/
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
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Cindie Flannigan is the producer WBACA. Her info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
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Rick Rodgers Saves Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving superhero Rick Rodgers is with us this week! And just in time for Thanksgiving! Rick and Denise talk about cooking for the holidays, making it easier on yourself, and the importance of lists, lists, and more lists. As the author of Thanksgiving 101, he knows his way around Thanksgiving! Below Rick give us his recipe for Cranberry, Ginger, and Lemon Chutney.
Rick is a legendary cookbook author and award-winning culinary teacher. He is an expert on the desserts and history of the lively cafes and legendary bakeries of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague. At CoffeeAndCake.org Rick teaches you how to recreate these famed baked goods in your own kitchen. As the author of the best-selling book, Kaffeehause, Rick is uniquely equipped to share these iconic recipes. There are upcoming joint classes with Rose Levy Beranbaum and Michelle Polzine, not to be missed! Bon Appetite magazine awarded Rick the prestigious Food and Entertaining Award for “Outstanding Culinary Teacher,” an honor he shares with only a handful of other educators.
 
RICK’S LINKS:
Website: https://coffeeandcake.org
Kaffeehause: https://www.amazon.com/Kaffeehaus-Exquisite-Desserts-Classic-Budapest-ebook/dp/B09NN6SM2B/ref=sr_1_1
Thanksgiving 101: https://www.amazon.com/Thanksgiving-101-Celebrate-Americas-Favorite/dp/0061227315/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cookbookrick/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CookbookRick
Cranberry, Ginger, and Lemon ChutneyMakes about 3 cups, 12 servingsFrom THANKSGIVING 101 by Rick Rodgers
I have created countless recipes for homemade cranberry sauce over the years, but this is the one that I garners the most requests. Everyone loves its zesty, sweet, and spicy combination of flavors, and it really enlivens a traditional menu. Remember, cranberry sauce keeps forever, so you can make it will ahead of the main event or keep leftovers a few weeks.
 
1 medium lemon                 
One 12-ounce bag fresh or frozen cranberries, rinsed, soft berries discarded      
2 cups granulated sugar
½ cup (¼-inch dice) crystallized ginger (about 2½ ounces)
⅓ cup finely chopped yellow onion
1 garlic clove, minced
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and minced
1 cinnamon stick
½ teaspoon dry mustard
½ teaspoon salt
Using a Micrograter or the small holes on a box grater, remove the yellow zest from the lemon. Using a small, sharp paring knife, cut away and discard the thick white pith. Cut the lemon in half horizontally and pick out the seeds with the tip of the knife. Dice the lemon flesh into ¼-inch pieces.
In a medium, nonreactive saucepan, combine the cranberries, diced lemon and zest, sugar, ginger, onion, garlic, jalapeno, cinnamon stick, mustard and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring often to help dissolve the sugar. Reduce the heat to low and simmer until the sauce is thick and the cranberries have burst, 10 to 15 minutes. Cool completely. (The chutney can be prepared up to 3 weeks ahead, covered tightly and refrigerated.) Remove the cinnamon stick just before serving. Serve at room temperature.
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
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Food, Family & Love with Betty Ann Quirino

We are so excited to have Elizabeth Ann Quirino with us this week to talk about Filipino food, family and, and her blog, The Quirino Kitchen. She has written and indie published three cookbooks: Instant Filipino Recipes: My Mother’s Traditional Philippine Food in a Multicooker Pot, a follow up to My Mother’s Philippine Recipes, a collection of her late mother’s favorite Filipino classic dishes which Betty Ann transformed to everyday cooking in her American kitchen. She has won too many awards to list here. Betty Ann was born and raised in Tarlac, Philippines, and now based in New Jersey, USA. She is also freelance journalist, and food writer. She blogs about Filipino home cooking recipes on her very popular site TheQuirinoKitchen.com. Betty Ann travels often to her home in the Philippines, and throughout Asia, in search of traditional recipes and stories about culture and history. She will soon publish her next book, Every Ounce of Courage: A Daughter’s Reflections on Her Mother’s Bravery, which is a memoir with Filipino recipes.
Betty Ann shares two of her favorite recipes for the holidays with us. Scroll to the bottom of these notes to get them!
 
BETTY ANN’S LINKS:
Website: https://thequirinokitchen.com
Blog: https://thequirinokitchen.com/recipe-index/
Books: https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Ann-Besa-Quirino/e/B017QJBW1I/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianInAmericaFilipinoFood
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BettyAnnQuirino
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/TheQuirinoKitchen/
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
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Soup & Bread with Crescent Dragonwagon

We are ever-so-lucky to have the delightful and irrepressible Crescent Dragonwagon back with us to talk about another of her wonderful books out in a new edition. This time it’s Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread, a Country Inn Cookbook. Raghavan Iyer says, “Soup and bread in her capable hands create all the right magic for the body and soul,” and that her “recipes sing with flavor.” Below Crescent shares one of her readers’ favorites (as mentioned in this episode), just in time for autumn
For nearly two decades, Dairy Hollow House—an inn and restaurant tucked into the Ozark Mountain resort town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas—welcomed guests from all over the world. The inn offered sparkling fresh, innovative “nouveau’zarks” cuisine, contemporary interpretations of local traditional cooking. Although now closed, you can still enjoy the satisfying dishes in the 30th anniversary edition of Crescent’s magical book.
 
Greek Lentil and Spinach Soup with Lemon
Makes 4-6 servings
Serve this with couscous salad, a plate of sliced feta and olives, some baba ghanoush with whole-wheat pita, and fresh pineapple and Medjool dates for dessert.
1 lb brown or large green lentils, rinsed and picked over
10 cups vegetable broth or water
1 jalapeño pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped
2 tsp whole coriander seeds
1½ tsp cumin seeds
2½ tsp dried oregano
2 bay leaves
2 medium Yukon gold, russet or red potatoes (1¼ lbs), scrubbed, cut into ½-inch dice
10 oz baby spinach, chopped
1 small butternut squash (1 lb), peeled, seeded, cut into ½-inch dice (about 3 cups)
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, with leaves, sliced
3 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 tsp kosher salt, or more to taste
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper, or more to taste
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
2 lemons
Directions:
In a large soup pot over medium-high heat, combine the lentils, stock or water, jalapeño, coriander, cumin, oregano, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Simmer, partially covered, about 30 minutes, until the lentils are tender.
Add the potatoes, spinach and butternut squash, re-cover and cook another 15 to 20 minutes, until the potatoes and squash are tender.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium heat, heat the olive oil until shimmering. Add the onion, and cook, stirring, until it starts to soften, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the celery and garlic and cook, stirring often, until they soften, 3 minutes. Add the mixture to the soup, deglazing the skillet with a little soup liquid and adding the deglaze contents back to the soup pot. Add the salt and pepper, taste, and add more if needed. Pick out and discard the bay leaves.
Thinly slice one of the lemons and cut the other into wedges. Just before serving, stir the lemon juice into the soup. Serve the soup hot, with a lemon slice floating atop each bowl. Pass lemon wedges at the table.
CRESCENT’S LINKS:
Website: https://dragonwagon.com
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Dairy-Hollow-House-Soup-Bread/dp/1682261840/ref=sr_1_1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crescent.dragonwagon
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdragonwagon
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crescent-dragonwagon-0565b47/
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
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Cindie Flannigan is the producer WBACA. Her info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
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Incontinence Happens with Dr. Suzanne Gilbert-Lenz

We continue our chat with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, author of Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age. This episode we talk about the too-often-shameful subject of incontinence. And, yes, we do laugh about it…because we’ve all been there.
Dr. Suzanne is a diplomat of the American College of Obstetrics and gynecology. She received her medical degree in 1996 from the USC School of Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA. She is involved in women’s empowerment and public education, and appears frequently as an expert in women’s health and integrative medicine on TV, in print and online. She was board-certified in integrative and holistic medicine in 2008 and completed her clinical Ayurvedic Specialist degree at California College of Ayurveda in 2010. She is cofounder of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Green Committee and is deeply committed to the promotion of healing that involves individuals, families, communities, and the planet.SUZANNE’S LINKS:
Website: https://thedrsuzanne.com
Book: https://a.co/d/fbY9Acq
Book Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askdrsuzanne/
Bootcamp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themenopausebootcamp/
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Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women. SHOW LINKS:
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Menopause is Not a Disease! with Dr. Suzanne Gilbert-Lenz

We’ve been looking for years for a menopause specialist to have on our show…and the universe has delivered! This week we chat with the author of the fresh-off-the-presses book, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age, Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz. Dr. Suzanne believes that the 27 million women entering menopause each year deserves thoughtful, candid, modern, holistic information surrounding this transitional stage in our lives. Real information on menopause has been shockingly sparse and surrounded by ageism, shame, and a lack of support. Life doesn’t end at menopause—it’s the start of something new and wonderful!
Dr. Suzanne is a diplomat of the American College of Obstetrics and gynecology. She received her medical degree in 1996 from the USC School of Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA. She is involved in women’s empowerment and public education, and appears frequently as an expert in women’s health and integrative medicine on TV, in print and online. She was board-certified in integrative and holistic medicine in 2008 and completed her clinical Ayurvedic Specialist degree at California College of Ayurveda in 2010. She is cofounder of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Green Committee and is deeply committed to the promotion of healing that involves individuals, families, communities, and the planet.SUZANNE’S LINKS:
Website: https://thedrsuzanne.com
Book: https://a.co/d/fbY9Acq
Book Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/askdrsuzanne/
Bootcamp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themenopausebootcamp/
Suzanne’s Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/askdrsuzanne
Bootcamp Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/themenopausebootcamp
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women. SHOW LINKS:
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Will It Be Okay? with Crescent Dragonwagon

Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrator Jessica Love pair up in this lovely and powerful new edition of Crescent’s classic picture book, Will It Be Okay? Those things which caused us to seek comfort in 1977 still require loving attention today. We are reminded, with humanity, grace, and humor, that, yes—yes, it will be okay.  
Oatmeal cookies also make things okay. Crescent shares her tummy-warming recipe with us.
Dairy Hollow House Oatmeal CookiesMakes about 72 2-inch cookiesWhen guests checked out of the inn I ran with Ned, my late husband, for 18 years, we sent them off with a bag containing a cookie each, to enjoy on the way home... to extend the pleasure of their stay just a little longer. Ingredients:1½ cups white sugar1½ cups, packed, dark brown sugar¾ cup butter, softened to room temp¾ cup vegetable shortening, preferably Miyoko's Creamery Cultured non-dairy Butter3 large eggs1½ tsp vanilla4½ cups rolled oats (not instant)3 cups unbleached white flour1½ tsp baking soda1½ tsp ground cinnamon¾ tsp baking powder¾ tsp salt1½ cups raisins1½ cups chopped walnuts or pecansOil or cooking spray 
Preheat oven to 375.2. In a large bowl, using a handheld mixer, cream together the sugars and the butters, beating till creamy and a little fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. When blended, beat in the vanilla. 3. In a second bowl, combine oatmeal, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Stir all but 1 cup of the oatmeal mixture into the creamed butter-sugar mixture. 4. Toss the remaining 1 cup of oatmeal with raisins and nuts and stir this into the batter. 5. Oil or spray a baking sheet. Scoop the batter, by rounded teaspoonsful, onto the sheet, allowing 1½ inches between cookies. Bake in the preheated oven for 6 to 8 minutes. Using a spatula, immediately remove the cookies from the sheet, allowing them to cool on a wire rack. 
CRESCENT’S LINKS:Website: https://dragonwagon.comBook: https://a.co/d/gC8fjioFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/crescent.dragonwagonTwitter: https://twitter.com/cdragonwagonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cdragonwagon/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crescent-dragonwagon-0565b47/
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