I’m excited to announce that I’m going to be teaching an online cooking class starting Wednesday August 18, 2010. It’s called Surf & Turf: Cooking Wild Seafood and Grass-fed Meats. And I’m giving away two spots in the class!
Did You Know…
- Omega-3 fatty acids in seafood and grass-fed meats can prevent depression and Alzheimer’s disease?
- Pregnant and nursing mothers eating seafood and grass-fed meats can increase their children’s IQ and prevent ADD?
- According to Julia Ross, author of The Mood Cure, we need to eat 20-30 grams of protein three times a day — just to maintain our current brain chemistry?
How Much Fish are You Eating?
The Harvard School of Public Health says we should be eating fish at least twice a week – and this applies especially to pregnant and nursing mothers and small children. Unfortunately, nearly half of Americans eat seafood only occasionally — or not at all.
Can’t I Just Take Fish Oil Capsules?
Nope. According to Chris Kresser at The Healthy Skeptic blog, “It appears that the presence of other fats in the fish activates processes required to absorb the EPA and DHA properly. This explains why the EPA and DHA are better absorbed from eating whole fish than from taking fish oil.” Chris continues:
In one study comparing the effects of fish and fish oil, researchers found that levels of DHA after 6 weeks of salmon consumption were nine times higher than after fish oil administration.
How About Organ Meats?
Most people won’t touch organ meats (unless they live in France, where pâté is served at most restaurants, or Mexico where they eat tripe for breakfast). And yet, organ meats like liver, bone marrow and heart contain anywhere from 10-100 times the nutrients of muscle meats like steak and chicken breasts.
Organ meats also contain vitamin K2, the nutrient Dr. Weston Price called “activator X” that helps prevent (and even reverse) cavities and crooked teeth. There’s also a lot of research to suggest that adequate levels of vitamin K2 can help prevent osteoporosis, heart disease, seizures, and kidney stones.
Organ meats are also a heck of a lot cheaper than muscle meats — and that matters when you’re trying to feed a family on a budget.
So Why Aren’t We Eating More Meat & Seafood?
Many of us don’t know where to buy seafood, and have no clue how to prepare it. (Ask me about the first time I tried to shuck oysters!) And we may perceive seafood to be too expensive.
When it comes to meat, most of us fall back on the same meals over and over again — ground beef and chicken breasts. It gets boring — but we don’t know how to cook the other cuts of meat. We may have tried a brisket in the past but it came out like shoe leather.
And organ meats? Forget about it! How do you get your family to eat liver when just saying the word makes them squirm?
What Surf & Turf Will Teach You
Cooking nutritionally dense, exceptionally healthy foods is not hard — once you know what you’re doing. Which is why I’m teaching this class. I will show you how to:
- Get your family to fall in love with weird foods that are incredibly good for them — like chicken livers and raw fish
- Use all the turn cheap cuts into melt-in-your-mouth delicacies — from delicious pot roasts to braised short ribs
- Master the BBQ grill
- Easily make mineral-rich bone broths, soups, gravies and reduction sauces
- Make delicious, balanced meals that are grain-free and low-carb
- Save money on grass-fed meat by buying half a cow and stocking the freezer
- Shop for sustainable, healthy seafood — no matter where you live
GAPS Legal, Low-Carb and Paleo Friendly
Are you paleo, primal or low carb? Following a grain-free diet like GAPS or SCD? If so, this class is perfect for you. This class is grain-free, sugar-free (occasional honey) and
I remember went on a grain-free, starch-free, sugar-free diet to heal my gut. It took a lot of work to learn how to go from eating pasta and prepared foods to cooking grain-free, starch-free, from scratch.
And it’s not easy to keep things interesting over time! You can only eat so many hamburgers and chicken breasts. I hope this class will help those of you out there who are following a special diet to have more variety.
Enter to Win Surf & Turf Online Cooking Class — $120 Value
To kick this thing off, I want to offer you a chance to win a spot in the class. I’m going to give away not just one but TWO spots.
Please note: I will be sharing a discount coupon code on Thursday when I announce the winner, so be sure to check back Friday!
Here’s how to enter: Just click on the link below to visit the Surf & Turf section of my site, then post in the comments below letting me know what you most want to learn from this class.
Surf & Turf: Cooking Wild Seafood and Grass-fed Meats.
That’s good for one entry.
How to Get More Entries
1. Blog about this giveaway and link back to this page on your blog. Comment below with the link. (1 extra entry)
2. Sign up for my email updates or RSS feed. Leave a comment below telling me that you signed up. You will also get an entry if you already subscribe — make sure to leave a comment! (1 extra entry)
3. Follow me on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway. Be sure to include the URL to this page in your tweet. Leave a comment telling me that you followed & tweeted. (1 extra entry)
4. Email 5 friends about the giveaway, with a link to the page. Leave a comment below telling me that you did. (1 extra entry)
5. Stumble this post and leave me a comment telling me that you did. (1 extra entry)
6. If you have a blog, add the new Real Food Media widget and leave me a comment telling me that you did. (FIVE extra entries!)
There are a total of 11 possible entries.
This contest will end Wednesday August 4th at 11:59 PM PST. The winner will be chosen via random.org. The winner will be announced on Thursday August 5th on my blog. The 2 winners will have 48 hours to contact me with his or her full name, address, and phone number. No purchase necessary to win.
This contest is open to readers anywhere in the world.
Good luck, everybody!
Questions? Comment below.
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I would love to learn more about how to cook different kinds of beef. I bought half a cow a YEAR ago and so far we’ve managed to ruin about 20 meals, and eat lots of hamburgers and tacos. =)
also, i’m signed up via google reader
I am now an official RSS subscriber…check!
I would love to learn about organ meats (classes 1 and 2). I just cooked my first liver this week and although it wasn’t bad it could sure use some improvement!
I follow you on google reader.
I’d love to learn more about cooking organ meats and seafood. I cook chicken livers for my family sometimes, but I just sauté them in a bit of butter with some onions, nothing fancy. I love seafood but tend to only eat it when I eat out and I don’t eat out very often.
I already follow you on Twitter and subscribe to your blog in my Google Reader. I’ll Stumble this post too.
I already receive your emails
I subscribe to you via email.
This sounds amazing – I am a longtime vegetarian who is struggling to learn about this! I’ve started with seafood, and just made your bacon-wrapped scallops an hour ago – holy yum, batman!!!!!
Oops! I sent and email without completing it. More ways to cook liver – awsome I love love love live, have since I was very young. I bought tallow for the first time so more things to learn to fry – awsome.
I would love to learn how to feed liver to my family. We are trying to include more grass-fed animal foods in our diets, and this seems like the best! Even if it’s rare, I’d love to occasionally get it into the bellies I work to fill
I would so love to win a spot in your cooking class!~ Thanks for the chance!
Need to learn more about cooking fish and organ meat
Already subscribed.
Would love to learn more about cooking meats – maybe I’ll be able to understand the “why’s” of when things haven’t worked by taking the classes! Thanks for the opportunity to win a spot!
Already subscribe to your e-mail’s. E-mailed 5 friends about the Surf and Turf classes give-a-way.
I already subscribe.
I am already a subscriber
Yummy looks great!
Hi Anne Marie,
I subscribed via RSS feed, I sent an email to five friends (for real!!), and I have the Real Food Media widget on my site.
I will be posting on it shortly and will be an associate (just as soon as I get it all squared away, I’ll link back……..)
I’d like to gain more insight on roasts and stews, and pate and really am into the seafood portion!!!!!!!
I can’t wait for this course- I want to learn all these topics,but specifically ,I want to make organ meats more friendly and as I am reading the Mood Cure am implementing more seafood in the diet.I am particularly interested in using stewing cuts of meat as well-actually everything in the course i want to learn!
I clicked on the link and I am a subscriber to your emails.
I already get your email updates.
It all sounds wonderful, but my favorites would be the organ meats, the grain free breads, grilling, and the raw seafood.
My husband loves fish but I just can’t cook it properly. I’d love to learn!
I already subscribe to your email updates.
This is incredible Ann Marie,as I have been struggling with the acrylamide cancer causing question for a while and haven’t been able to find reliable and credible facts on the matter.I am overjoyed to see that you are undertaking that question in your course!Thank you in advance
Hi, I’d love an opportunity to take your class. I can make a good steak and love a good piece of salmon but other than that I’m out of my league. I’d love a chance to learn some new techniques and learn to prepare seafood.
Susan
in Escanaba Mi
I really need to learn how to cook meat. My ability to cook meat stops at hamburgers. My parents recently gifted us a half of a cow and I have no idea what to do with it. This class would be a blessing, and our half cow would thank you for ensuring that it doesn’t get wasted! LOL
I signed up for your newsletter, too. I can use all the help I can get!
i really want to learn to use organ meats. what a cool class!
i’m a subscriber.
Would LOVE to win this. I have an autoimmmune disorder that has ruled out eating grains and starch…so…I have to focus on meat!
My in-laws sent us the “toxic seafood” video off of You Tube, and as a result they, and my brother-in-law’s, family all stopped eating seafood and are telling everyone else not to eat it. We are the only hold out and need more information on buying appropriate seafood. When we DO get something like proper Wild Alaskan Salmon my husband complains it tastes different than the regular salmon. We definitely need help choosing and cooking safe seafood. Help!
You Tube video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0F8x4i5GYE
I subscribe to your feed.
Oh, what a wonderful series this will be, for sure!
I grew up in the middle of this country without access to fresh seafood. We never cooked it. How I would love to acquire the knowledge to cook it well so that my 7 children can do it as well!
I’m also interested to learn more about organ meats. Beef liver was often served in our home, but I’ve never prepared it for my own children (mainly due to my husband’s attitude toward it).
I subscribe to your e-mail feed.
I would love to learn more about cooking Wild Seafood. I live in MI so we don’t have much local seafood but I do get frozen, good quality wild when I can. I have some salmon and cod in the freezer. I didn’t grow up eating much fish and I am not a huge fish fan, but my kids and husband are. I want to learn good recipes and ways to cook it so I can learn to eat more of it.
Lisa
I am an email subscriber to your blog.
Lisa
My husband and I are new readers of cheeseslave and as a family dealing with a variety of conditions – fibromyalgia, IBS and pre-diabetes – we’re doing all we can to learn a better way of feeding our family and ultimately a healthier way of living. I am especially confused about the grains & carbs. I would appreciate very much being considered for the course.
This looks like a great class for me. I had been a vegetarian for 27 yrs until about a year ago. Having low thyroid and a child with autism really made me rethink what I was doing with our family. I would love to learn to cook meat and seafood so my family loves it. I’m still a little timid about cooking organ meats but, I’m up for it (love the benefits). I’m psyched!
I am a subscriber to your blog.
Hey Ann!
This looks great. I am already subscribed to you, and I follow you on Twitter (http://twitter.com/gemfan2012/statuses/19952670996).
I will add the widget to my site once you have approved.
I really need to learn how to cook both seafood and the organ meats! Thanks!
I am signed up for email updates.
I’d like to learn about cooking organ meats- they seem a bit scary & my dear hubby refuses to try them. HELP!
I’d love to learn more about cooking fish….it’s something I hesitate to make because it seems challenging.
I get your RSS feed!
We plan on raising our own beef in the next few years and I would love to be ahead of the game when in comes time to cook it.
I already subscribe though Google.
Hi Anne Marie,
Everything in your video looked amazing, but cooking beef that tastes like my grandma’s used to is something I’ve always wanted to learn how to do… and that’s what yours looks like!
Hope I win!
Thanks,
Annie Dru
Stumbled…
I want to learn about cooking organ meats that the whole family will LOVE and how to use cheap cuts of meat. Let’s face it-eating healthy can be a lot more expensive unless you have some tricks up your sleeve!
I would love to take this course! I already receive your emails..
I did all 6, I am just waiting for my widget to arrive and I will post it into my webpage!
This is my FB page and your FB plug
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=102018016472&share_id=101761833215139&comments=1#s101761833215139
I have over 1500 members (and still growing) and another 1000 over at my ‘activist’ twitter acct. which posts get automatically posted. I also have a personal twitter acct which is following you now!
I have also posted this blog on my personal FB acct which has over 700 friends! http://www.facebook.com/enithhernandez
I will LOVE to join your cooking classes, I’m such a foodie! ♥
I want to learn about organ meats and where to buy some of these items. I’ve been teetering on the edge, ready to start, and this will be perfect.
I get your RSS feed already.
I emailed friends and practically begged them to sign up with me
I would love to take this class and I appreciate the opportunity to win it as our budget is challenging right now!
I clicked on the link and visited your site
I tweeted
I emailed at least 5 friends all about it!
I already subscribe via RSS feed
Thank you!
I would love to take the class to learn about organ meats, stocks, and preparation and planning. Also seafood!
I clicked on the link and visited your site.
I already subscribe via RSS feed and also your mealplans
I emailed at least 5 friends
I need help cooking fish. That’s my weakness.
And this preview will be posted at 7 a.m. Monday the 2nd. That’s the first bonus.
And I’m already a subscriber. (2)
And I’ll have an announcement in my newsletter next Friday. That’s after your deadline, but does it help that it’s over 2,000 friends? (3)
And I’ve got the widget installed. (4,5,6,7,8)
If I remember to tweet and stumble it, I’ll let you know.
Gosh, there is so much I want to learn! I am really clueless about the miriad of beef cuts. It would be nice to know what to do with them all! I also have a munu-panic attack when I try to figure out what fish is safe, sustainable, and environmentally friendly.
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emailed 6 people!
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I am already subscribed to your updates
I emailed 5 friends
I need more protein! I would love to get more ideas on how to use raw seafood, and hopefully finally get the nerve to eat liver!!! Class looks awesome!
I teach cooking classes and I’m looking for more nutrient dense recipes to share with others.
Plus, there is ALWAYS new things to learn about making GREAT FOOD!!
The schedule of classes is appetizing! I would sure like to learn more about preparation and cooking of meats and wild seafood. I want to buy more grass fed meats but I want to be confident knowing that the way I prepare them will not make them inedible (think shoeleather). Also, after having just read and devored “The Mood Cure” I am convinced that the American Diet is sorely deficient in protein. I’m looking forward to the addition of more healing foods in our diet! I’m hoping that I would be one that could win your class!
Your classes sound awesome. I want to learn more about cooking organ meats, seafood-raw and lightly cooked, and how to cook grass-fed meat. We still don’t have a handle on that. I would love to win this because it’s the only way I can afford to take it right now. You wouldn’t by any chance consider a pay what you can like GNOWFGLIN? That is how I am doing her saurdough ecourse.
I get your emails.
I want to learn how to correctly cook proteins and integrate more grassfed into my budget!
I already subscribe and look forward to what you have to say!
I noticed after my post that everyone else is posting separate comments, so I’m reposting my comments here – previously I posted them all in one comment above at 07/30/10 at 9:00 pm
So,
I would love to take the class to learn about organ meats, stocks, meat cuts, and preparation and planning. Also seafood!
I clicked on the link and visited your site.
I already subscribe via RSS feed and also to your meal plans
I emailed 12 friends
I blogged about the ecourse!!!
http://divinehealthfromtheinsideout.com/2010/07/surf-and-turf-ecourse-by-cheeseslave/
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Just added the widget to my blog
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I need to learn everything about seafood!
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I would love to take this class! I really need help learning what to do with seafood – we have some great sources in Seattle, and I always look longingly at the vendor stalls at the farmer’s market, but I ultimately walk on by because I’m unsure of what I would do if I bought some of their amazing-looking oysters or clams or fish.
I would also like to learn more about how to properly cook grass-fed beef. I had some success on the grill once I learned to grill low-and-slow, but in general, I want to know how to do much more, and do it properly!!
This sounds like an amazing class, thank you for offering it!
I also subscribed to your blog via my RSS Reader (Feedly) – does that count?
I want to learn how to cook seafood and go grain-free!
Wow! I’m so happy to see that you are offering this wonderful opportunity. I would love to learn more about preparing organ meats, as well as creating some yummy sauces and reductions. I currently purchase a portion of a side of beef from a local farm, so I’ve got all of the cuts, just need the direction. I’ve also got the widget on my blog
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Thanks for a chance to win! I would love the whole class, need it all, but most interesting to me when I looked at the offerings, was how to cook a variety of cuts of meat. I seem to do a LOT of drumsticks and hamburgers, as that’s what I know. Thank you!
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What a wonderful class! I have been trying to eat sugar-free, low-carb, and grain-free for a year now, due to some of the same health issues you mentioned having. It’s hard because it is really a process of relearning everything I thought I knew about healthy eating. I had about 3 recipes in my 3″ recipe binder that I could still make. So that is what I would look forward to most in this class – recipes! and someone to show me “how” to do this thing better!
I am a terrible cook! Any cooking class will help me!
I want to learn how to make sushi.
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I get your email updates.
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I tweeted this.
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Hello! I clicked on your link and am already a subscriber, emailed 7 people, and would absolutely love to know how to use the cheaper, more nutrient dense, organ meats for my family. I sounds like there would be a wealth of learning in the course! It would be put to good use. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I would love to know how to cook organ meats. This is one area where I am having difficulty and I want to be able to serve this to my family.
I blogged about it here:
http://bit.ly/9JY4SS
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I just emailed 5 friends. I really want to win this.
I’ve got my fingers crossed to win this one because I really need help learning how to cook meats and seafood. I buy meat in bulk directly from the farmer and half the time don’t know how to cook it. Thanks for the chance!
I’m a subscriber through reader.
What I most want to learn about is how to prepare organ meats.
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