What the heck is that ugly thing?
No… I’m not looking in the mirror again. Here… check this out. That is celery root, or celeriac. It’s not the root from the usual celery we see in the store, the stalks from this are hollow and reed...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Celery
Celery is sort of a character actor of the vegetable world. Always playing the supporting-actor to other more well known items like peanut butter or cream cheese, cause by itself it really doesn’t pack...
View ArticleBeef “Pot Pie”
I inventoried my chest freezer last week, and decided to pull out the chuck roast I had in there and cook that up. I turned to Good Eats for inspiration and cooked it the way Alton Brown showed in his...
View ArticleLet’s Cook! Turkey Quinoa Meatballs
Since I’ve been promoting quinoa on Twitter and such so much lately, people have been asking me for recipes using it… here’s a good one… turkey meatballs that have quinoa and veges in them, making them...
View ArticleReal Dudes DO Eat Salads
I’m still not a fan of quiche, but I do love salads… and one heck of a manly dude seems to agree with me. John DeVore is a former editor at Maxim magazine and maxim.com and recently wrote a piece for...
View ArticleFlash Back: Surviving on 1500 calories a day…?
Originally published November 29, 2009 So yea, I met with the dietitian on Tuesday, and after we talked about eating after surgery we got in to what I need to do before surgery to lose the pre-op...
View ArticleFeed Your Brain
and no… I’m not talking zombies here or anything… I said “feed”, not “eat”. There was a recent study out of Chicago that is suggesting that low levels of B12 in older folks may be tied to decreased...
View ArticleChicken Six Ways P4 – Chicken Pan Pie
It didn’t feel right calling this a chicken pot pie when I cooked mine in a pan. A sauce pan for part of it and a cast-iron skillet for the baking part. So yea. But whatever you want to call it, this...
View ArticleChicken Six Ways P5 – Squashed Chicken Soup
I started thinking of soup when I first started this whole “six ways” thing. I did a similar “single-serve” soup a couple weeks back, using broccoli slaw. This time I wanted to have a bit of noodle...
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