I spend so much time in the kitchen cooking for Thanksgiving that I can’t bring myself to write an article about a recipe today. I’m sure many of you need a break from thinking about measuring out ingredients or bake times or what size pan to use and blah blah blah. The one thing I will […]

Lunch needs to be quick and easy most of the time. Those two things normally mean pushing the nutrition virgin into the volcano. Do you really have to sacrifice health for time? No, you don’t.  With a bit of planning and anticipation, you can keep some basic healthy ingredients on hand that will allow you […]

Some of you may be familiar with The Purple Cow restaurant. I am not. I don’t avoid it for any food related reasons. I’m sure it’s fine standard fare as burger joints go. No, my reasons are psychological as the name triggers painful childhood memories. Confused? Every story becomes a tragedy if you follow it long […]

Halloween marks the beginning of the truly scary season.  Not because of ghosts, goblins, or creatures that annoyingly go bump in the night when I just want a few hours of uninterrupted sleep…I’m looking at you, cats.  No, Halloween is terrifying because that’s the start of Eating Season.  Truth be told, most people treat every day […]

There are so many arbitrary rules in life. I tend to avoid the ones that apply to food and cooking whenever it suits me. Not to be telling tales out of school, but that’s pretty much every time I make a meal. Some ascribe to hard and fast rules on Gumbo, for example. To me, […]

It’s funny how I used to regard fast food joints or restaurants as the only place to get certain foods. Take the humble chicken breast sandwich.  It never occured to me that it could be made at home.  That was a fast food item only.  I was a Wendy’s Spicy chicken sandwich man myself.  They actually […]

Pasta.  It’s usually one of those off-limits no-go ingredients when on a diet.  It makes sense.  Store bought dry pasta is made of highly processed flour, eggs, and enough additives to preserve it for a shelf life that ensures it will still be edible long after the zombie apocalypse has come and gone. It’s best to […]

I try to stress in this series that eating healthy does not have to be boring.  I’ve witnessed people losing weight a few weeks before a trip or event, and they invariably resort to some unsustainable diet and exercise routine. The eating plan is usually just a can of tuna and one apple a day, […]

Back in the day, I would make an Oreo cake from time to time. It was a typical Devil’s Food flavor cake-in-a-box from the mega-mart, mass produced cream cheese full of unnecessary ingredients, a tub of frozen Cool Whip, and about two-thirds of a large package of Oreo cookies. It was topped with a hard shell of melted […]