In my previous life, Beef Stroganoff was only possible if it came out of a box of Hamburger Helper. Looking at the ingredients, the only thing that product was helping was my waistline expanding and future medical bills to skyrocket. Ingredients Enriched Pasta (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Dairy Solids, […]

There may be some of you that read this series but don’t really buy into the why of it all. I’ve shared the before and after pics showing how I lost eighty pounds of body fat and added lean muscle by avoiding pre-packaged foods with Tolstoy length ingredient lists. I’ve written out the recipes I’ve […]

Want a chocolatey peanut buttery ice cream treat? Of course you do. Want it to be full of protein, healthy fats, and minerals? Don’t care, you say? I get it. But now you can have your ice cream and eat it too, all while fueling your lean muscle mass and reducing blood sugar impacts. How? […]

Anytime I make a dish with noodles, I think about Kung Fu Panda. I guess it’s because that movie came out when my youngest son was four years old, so I figure I have watched the first one at least one million, five hundred and seventy-five times, on a conservative estimate. It’s so ingrained in […]

It’s getting hot. The days of heavy meals are distant memories now, shaky images in the rearview mirror of culinary winter. I still need dessert, though, no matter if it feels like Venus on a bad day outside right now. It needs to be light, it needs to be refreshing, and it needs to be healthy. […]