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I first tried this side dish at a little restaurant in Albuquerque in the late 80s. I am not sure whether it is a regional dish or if it was unique to this restaurant, but I experimented and came up with my own version. It’s a summer favourite in my family, served with beans and a main dish like tacos or enchiladas, or with potatoes and a green salad.

We receive weekly delivery of an organic food box from a local farm and, with the exception of the green chile, we usually have most of these ingredients in our weekly box. I’m a bit of a chile aficionado, so I bring back a stash of Bueno Frozen Green Chile from New Mexico when I return from a trip south. For those who are less likely to travel internationally for their chile consumption, “Old El Paso” brand canned green chile is fairly easy to find in the Mexican foods section of any Canadian grocery store, and works well in this delicious dish. For those who prefer their food cranked down on spicy scale, use mild green chilies. If it is still a bit spicy for your taste, add sour cream and extra cheese.

2 tablespoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves crushed
1/2 medium onion chopped
3 zucchinis
1 cup corn
1/2 cup fresh roasted green chilies (Anaheim peppers) or 2-3 small cans
1 cup grated extra sharp or sharp
3/4 cheddar cheese (optional)
Salt to taste

In a skillet, heat olive oil to medium. Sauté onion and garlic until clear. Add zucchini. Cook until the zucchini is firm but cooked through. Add corn and green chilies. Salt to taste. Top with cheddar cheese. Serve.

It’s September, and change is in the air. Committees and work groups are back from their brief summer hiatus with a fluster of emails and a new meeting schedule. Like squirrels, we’re scampering around in a focused preparation for the upcoming season, and things can feel a little nuts. (more…)

Sage Portfolio Group offers a unique and affordable coaching option that we call ‘coaching gym’. Like a fitness gym, a coaching gym provides unlimited monthly access to services and programs for a monthly ‘membership’ fee. The coaching services are provided in a one-on-one format by telephone and email, and we offer the occasional group format teleclass to members who are working on a similar issue. (more…)

Robert Quinn’s book, published a year ago, promises to be an enlightening and inspirational read that goes beyond a narrow, superficial definition of ‘change management’ to examining how we can become change agents for ourselves and our organizations. Online reviewers call it “life-changing”, “leavened with practical examples and exercises”, “mandatory reading”, “inspirational”, and appropriate for those “willing to engage in extended self-examination.” Our copy of Deep Change just arrived from the publisher, and I’ll be putting some otherwise unproductive bus-and-plane travel time to practical use by reading it for our next Sage Portfolio Group book review, to be published later in September. Will I end the summer of ‘07 as an “internally driven leader” who has been “transformed from victim to powerful agent of change”? Stay tuned to find out.