The “ThinkFood” Project!
I have been sitting on a very big secret for a while now, but I am excited to be able to reveal it to you today! One of my very favorite recipes, the new and improved version of something that I eat nearly every single day of my life, will be featured in a fantastic new cookbook – ThinkFood. I can’t tell you what the recipe is yet, you’ll have to be surprised. I will tell you though that my brain healthy food is the incredible edible egg.
I adore eggs. In our household we eat about 12-14 eggs a week, for breakfast (and sometimes dinner), in baking, desserts and ice cream making! We love eggs so much, and believe that they are such a quick, inexpensive, versatile and substantial form of nutrition, that we got our own flock of layers to keep us in eggs for a very long time. I will be posting soon about another egg variety I was able to sample recently! Like I said, eggs are an incredibly good source of healthy fat and protein. Both things every brain loves.
Thinkfood is a cookbook featuring 50 delicious, original, brain-healthy recipes, each created by a different food blogger. You can sign up for the Recipe of the Week program to receive and preview a tasty new recipe from the cookbook. It will be delivered to your inbox every week—free! With each recipe, you will receive information about the blogger who created the recipe, with exclusive cooking tips, and information about the science behind the brain healthy foods and nutrients in the recipe!
A physical version of the cookbook with all 50 recipes and beautiful, full page photographs, will be available for purchase at the end of July!
ThinkFood is a cookbook sponsored and published by Posit Science and features 50 brain-healthy recipes from bloggers around the globe, including snacks, appetizers, sides and salads, main course and desserts.
The goal of this project is to take an integrated approach to brain health that includes brain training and brain healthy eating. Brain health and health in general are subjects that I am very passionate about. There are very few people today who are not affected by brain diseases and issues, either by having them, themselves or knowing someone that does. My dear Nana lost her battle with Alzheimer’s disease, over 10 years ago, and I am dedicating my participation in this project to her memory.
My cousin Michelle w/ my Pap-pap and me with Nana.
So please sign up for the Recipe of the Week Program and you will start receiving delicious brain healthy dishes. I think we could all feed our brains a little better. Each blogger and their recipe will be featured over the next 50 weeks. I will be sure to let everyone know as the date for my recipe to be featured approaches!
Macafouchette - June 16, 2010 at 11:01 am
Hi! Congratulations on your recipe included in this great cookbook. I share your love for eggs too in dishes deviled eggs, scrambled eggs, frittatas. I just joined the Recipe of the Week Program and will look out for your recipe. That’s a great secret to hold. I am glad that you are able to share it now. Congrats!
Joan Nova - June 16, 2010 at 11:19 am
So exciting. Congratulations. I’m signing up for the Recipe of the Week Program and can’t wait to see the cookbook. The cover looks great!
Teresa - June 16, 2010 at 11:24 am
Jenn, how wonderful! I love eggs. They are so versatile. And so pretty at Easter too! 🙂
bellini valli - June 16, 2010 at 11:24 am
That is exciting news Jenn!!!! I was just thinking that it is a good thing you have your little chicks to keep you supplied with eggs. I purchased some eggs at the grocers and was surprised by their bright orange yolk since there was no special packaging at all. My daughter the nutritionist assured me it was because the chicks consume flax and I would get an extra boost of nutrients by eating them. In the east the chicks eat corn so the yolks are very yellow in comparison to what we are usually supplied.
erin :: the olive notes - June 16, 2010 at 11:28 am
congrats jenn!! love that photo too 🙂
Rosa - June 16, 2010 at 11:44 am
Congrats! That is great! I also adore eggs.
cheers,
Rosa
ValleyWriter - June 16, 2010 at 12:00 pm
YAY!! Congratulations – this is a great honor and you *so* deserve it!
Arlene (MOM) - June 16, 2010 at 12:00 pm
This is great news. Congratulations, Jenn. This is a lovely surprise. The photo made me all misty. I am VERY proud of you.
pixen - June 16, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Congratulations!!! That’s really great news that Food bloggers’ hard work had been noticed lately.
Btw, in my country, there are farms that feed their fowls with Chinese herbs! Their farms doesn’t produce large to x-tra large eggs but mostly small to medium size with bright yellow yolk. Some farms even produce Omega-3 enriched eggs with orange yolk! Few months ago, another range of eggs entered the local market… pasteurised eggs! What I noticed of this pasteurised egg was the egg white is cloudy.
I’m looking forward to the book! 🙂
zoe - June 16, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Thats great! Congratulations!
Sue - June 16, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Jen,
Congrats. That sounds great. It’s really amazing that you’re raising your own chicks and getting your own eggs! I love reading about your farming and growing and raising things. You’re an inspiration!
lisaiscooking - June 16, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Congratulations! Can’t wait to see your recipe.
Peter G @ Souvlaki For The Soul - June 16, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Congratulations Jenn! I’ll head on over to check things out!
Erica - June 16, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Congratulations!!!I can’t wait to see your recipe a the whole cookbook 🙂
crankycheryl - June 16, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Oh, it sounds fabulous, and I’m signing up right now for a weekly recipe. I’m betting this will dovetail beautifully with anti-inflammatory eating.
kat - June 17, 2010 at 1:32 am
what a great way to pay tribute to your nana!
Alta - June 17, 2010 at 9:13 am
Cool! I signed up. I need all the brain food I can get!
D. @ Outside Oslo - June 17, 2010 at 11:05 am
That’s exciting–congratulations.
Eggs are one of the most remarkable little sources of nutrition, particularly protein. I love how a pot of hard-boiled eggs can be done in less than 15 minutes, leaving instant breakfasts for days on end, or how eggs can scramble up to something beautiful for the protein source at dinner, with a salad to accompany them.
Looking forward to checking out the recipes!
Núria - June 17, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Congrats beauty!!! So exciting to be part of the project :D.
I’m subscribing now. I have many “lottery numbers” to get one of the brain diseases when I get old… all my grandparents/grandmothers died from it… good news are that we now know a lot about it.
pam - June 17, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Congratulations!!! How exciting! I can’t wait to see your recipe!
Cara - June 17, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Just signed up! Can’t wait to see your recipe. I love eggs too, for all the same reasons you mentioned. And, this is such a wonderful cause. My husband and I both have family members who have been affected by Alzheimers and Dementia and I feel very strongly about fighting these diseases. Thank you for your commitment!
Stella - June 19, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Hey Jenn, that’s so great about the cookbook! Is that pic going to be their cover-it’s super pretty and clean looking. By the way, I always feel like eggs are one of my favorite foods too-they are probably the sole reason I haven’t become vegan full-time.
p.s.-I love that photo of your grandparents-so cute and happy they look! Oh, and you babies are alright too (smile)!
Siri - June 21, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Hi Jenn!
What an awesome idea for a book. I am a huge egg-lover too and have a mission to convince my 85 year old grandpa that they ARE NOT bad for one’s health- still have to work on him about eating non-fat ice cream and margarin! Can’t wait to hear what your recipe is, sure it’ll be something good.
Angela@spinachtiger - June 21, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Congratulations. I am very interested in how our food affects our brain. (and everything else). I know walnuts and blueberries are big brain boosters. I, too, am the biggest egg lover. I only buy local eggs here, recently found a close by private chicken farm that grows mostly for herself, but sells to me for $2 a dozen, and the are best I ever had. I even got to pick my own from hen house.
I can’t seem to get enough of this near perfect food.
P.S. Jen I thought I had subscribed to your blog. I want to remember to keep checking over here, as I love your posts.
Toni - June 22, 2010 at 12:31 am
Congrats, Jenn! I guess I didn’t realize that eggs were brain food. That’s great news, as I’m an egg fan myself!
Michelle - April 12, 2011 at 9:09 am
Oh my gosh, Jenn! This photo is so cute and brings back soooo many memories! Thanks for posting it.