There are times when you just need a chocolate cake, damn it. Say, like after hearing The Beatles song “They Say It’s Your Birthday” on the radio. Yep, that will do it. Or, perhaps like myself and my son, you just had an actual birthday. I turned 48 this past week, and even being the so-called Shirtless […]

Local fitness enthusiast Jason Murphy remakes favorite meals of his youth into healthy dishes. See the full list of his recipes at www.mysaline.com/shirtless. Of all the meals I have adapted to fit my lifestyle once I gave processed foods and simple carbs the boot, Shrimp and Grits has to be one of my favorites. Sure, […]

I’ve always loved British pop culture. From Monty Python, The Young Ones, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as a teenager, to Peaky Blinders, Broadchurch, and Top Gear as an adult, I find myself immersed in British culture. Sometimes it’s easy to forget with all the deep-fried battered fish fast food places around here that […]

There are some dishes that are required to be on a rotation when you live in this part of the world.  I’ve already covered a few of them like Chili and Cornbread, Catfish, and soon Shrimp and Grits will be coming out. Today, though, is probably the quintessential meal of the south, and that means […]

There are a lot of common lies we all tell ourselves. I can hit the snooze button again and still be on time, the boss will believe me if I call in sick the Monday after the Super Bowl, that warning light on the car is probably nothing… but the biggest of them all is […]

Time. To quote Joe Jackson, it just keeps tick-tick-ticking in my head. If you are like me, it feels like there’s less of it every day. It can be a real struggle to get everything done in a day and cooking healthy from scratch is very time consuming. Most of the recipes I’ve featured in […]

If I had to guess, I’d say about 80% of my childhood diet consisted of hot dogs. My first cooking related injury resulted from boiling water for hot dogs as a 5-year-old latchkey kid. I accidentally touched the burner with the palm of my hand, and seared the flesh right off. I had a perfect […]

I used to have an All State Letterman jacket covered in patches for blowing diets. I would eat healthy for a few days, and then some high calorie junk food meal would come along and derail everything. These usually happened at work or family functions with a high dose of peer pressure. I’m sure you […]

Slow cookers are a paradox. They take all day to cook something, while simultaneously saving you major time in the kitchen. Since making the commitment to eschew processed foods and cook everything from scratch, any time recouped from the kitchen is greatly appreciated in my life. When I have chores or some random life thing […]