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. […]

Who doesn’t love cinnamon rolls? I wasn’t picky about them back when I ate whatever crossed my path. It could be homemade and fresh baked, or a stale gas station special wrapped in cellophane. I devoured them all. In my high school years, I worked the summers and weekends with a landscaping crew. It was hard labor. […]

There are times when I plan out my grocery list for the week that I have no idea what I’m going to cook. I’m sure you have experienced this as well. You’ve hit all the favorites too many times, don’t have the energy to tackle some new and involved recipe, or nothing sounds good. This […]

There are certain things that have the power to take you back in time.  No, I’m not talking about a complex invention like a Delorean with a flux capacitor, or a theoretical tunnel through space after crossing the event horizon of a black hole.  Something as common as a scent will do, especially if it […]