Chimichurri is a herb-based sauce made with fresh chopped herbs, garlic, lemon juice or vinegar, and extra virgin olive oil. It’s bursting with spicy, sharp, and citrusy flavors.
It’s excellent on grilled meats, but can also be used as a salad dressing, sandwich spread, and even a dip for crudites. I know it will be your new favorite all-purpose summer condiment.
This issue also shares
- The Best Life Living Tip: Know your Worth
- The Self-Care Technique: Pride is the Opposite of Shame
- Ideas and Inspiration: We Do Not Care Club
Read on for more, including the recipe for Chimichurri. It’s super easy and quick, lasts for several days in the fridge, and wakes up your tastebuds!
Best Life Living Tip
Know your worth.
This week, I had an unfortunate conversation with a hospitality company that wanted me to teach cooking classes at a radically reduced rate with the explanation, “We don’t normally pay for speakers.”
My instant reply was, “Well, this will not be a good fit.”
Banks don’t take exposure as a mortgage payment. If you have precedence for a fee, you know your worth.
“Know your worth” is an expression encouraging self-awareness and valuing oneself, including one’s skills, talents, and personal qualities. It emphasizes understanding your value and not allowing others to diminish or devalue you.
Knowing your worth is about embracing your authenticity, setting healthy boundaries, and pursuing your goals with confidence.
You can do it!
Self-Care Strategy
It’s taken a long time for me to rein in my internalized homophobia. I don’t know if I will ever be 100% done with it, but I am working on it.
My self-care strategy is to constantly work that I have nothing to be ashamed of, God made me who I am, and I am loved. It’s pretty darn hard growing up in the South with so many right-wing Christians proclaiming I am going to hell. And, the conservative culture war makes it worse.
The religious bigots who question my salvation should worry about their own. How dare they presume to know the mind of God?
Pride is the opposite of shame. Shame is wanting to hide. It’s feeling “less than” and makes you contract. Pride is being immensely satisfied with something and wanting to show it off. Pride is expansive. It grows outward in our actions, thoughts, and imaginations. I am proud to be me!
Check here for more resources about overcoming internalized homophobia and how you can be a supportive straight ally.
Want to celebrate? Check out my Pride Brunch How-to and recipe for Peaches and Cream Cake on FoodNetwork.com
Ideas and Inspiration
Have you seen the “We Do Not Care Club” on IG? OMG so funny. You have got to check her out. I love following people who inspire and educate me — and we all need a good laugh, too!
Check out @justbeingmelani and give her a follow. (I want to petition for her to include post menopausal women, too!)
Good and Good for You™Living Spotlight
Did you know that if you write down your goals, you are more likely to achieve them? Writing things down increases clarity, focus, and accountability.
I LOVE my Good and Good for You™ notebooks!
Every single night, I rate my day.
I consider
- Healthy and Strong — Did I eat healthy and exercise?
- Clear and Focused — Did I avoid numbing with food, alcohol, or doomscrolling? Did I practice good time management?
- Calm and Graceful — Did I meditate? did I pray? Was I kind?
I give myself a check if I stayed on plan, a line for “meh”, and an X if I blew it. As long as my checks beat out my Xs I am good to go! Remember, you’re on the right track as long as you’re doing what’s Good and Good for You™, more often than not.
Make it Count
Thanks so much for reading. Please follow on IG @virginiawillis for more best life tips, self-care techniques, ideas and inspiration, and healthy recipes. I hope you love this chimichurri as much as I do. So good!
As long as you’re doing what’s Good and Good for You™ more often than not, you’re on the right track. 🙌🏻 You can do it!
Bon Appétit Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Chimichurri
Ingredients
- ½ cup olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 2 garlic cloves very finely chopped
- 1 small minced onion
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh herbs such as parsley basil, dill, and oregano
- ½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients in a jar. Shake to combine.
Nutrition
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