MEAL PREP: Beef and Chicken and Broccoli I like Chinese food as much as everyone else does, but when you get Chinese takeout it’s full of crappy oils, crappy ingredients, and leaves you feeling just like it, crappy. Luckily, you can quickly whip up these flavors at home by swapping out their crappy ingredients withContinue reading “Beef and Chicken and Broccoli”
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Slow Cooker Chicken Sweet Potato Chili
MEAL PREP: Slow Cooker Chicken Sweet Potato Chili I’m getting married in October, and I’ve slowly begun to receive wedding gifts, one gift I just got is a truly beautiful slow cooker (Thank you Stewart and Eileen). With all this great stuff arriving at our place, I think I’m starting to understand why people getContinue reading “Slow Cooker Chicken Sweet Potato Chili”
Blackened Chicken Thighs and Bacon Sweet Potato Hash
MEAL PREP: Blackened Chicken Thighs and Bacon Sweet Potato Hash On days when I don’t have food prepared for work I often go to Whole Foods and make lunches from their hot food and salad bar. They’ve recently been stocking blackened chicken thighs. I like blackening stuff because it healthily adds deep flavor. The issue with WholeContinue reading “Blackened Chicken Thighs and Bacon Sweet Potato Hash”
Season It Up!
Ahh, Summer. After such a long, cold winter, I’m sure that many of us are now happily enjoying warmer temperatures, longer days, flowers in bloom, and of course, seasonal produce. For me, there is nothing quite like the taste of the season’s first tender asparagus and leafy greens, or the sweet berries, melons, and peachesContinue reading “Season It Up!”
Meal Prep: Mexican Meatloaf
I meal prepped a Mexican meatloaf this week. I added a ton of vegetables to it so that it would be more nutritious. If you are concerned with the higher calorie count in this than in my other recipes, you can switch out the pork churizo with one made with chicken or turkey, or even sub it outContinue reading “Meal Prep: Mexican Meatloaf”
Chronic Inflammation And How To Tame It
Chronic Inflammation and How To Tame It A stressful life, poor diet, and toxic people, we would all happily trade with a more balanced existence filled with nourishment, inner growth and conscious living. Sure, why not? But it’s not always so easy, when our go-go lifestyles encompass a daily barrage of toxins, infectious agents andContinue reading “Chronic Inflammation And How To Tame It”
The Unrefrigerated Egg
While working to set up our new studio in Santiago, Chile recently – I took time out to visit the city and to go grocery shopping. Visiting a large and well-stocked super market, I became fascinated as I walked down the ‘egg aisle’ that resembled any bread aisle in a U.S. super market. There theyContinue reading “The Unrefrigerated Egg”
I Drink Coffee
I’m a regular coffee drinker, and now that reports claim that coffee is actually a good thing, I no longer feel the need to be discreet about my caffeine addiction…um…attraction.
The Skinny on Fats
Fat is simply the most misunderstood component of the modern diet, and ‘healthy’ and ‘low-fat’ are dangerously regarded as synonymous. After years of experts recommending that we eliminate fat completely from our diets, they are now starting to concede that some fats, like Omega-3s, are good for us. Notwithstanding, we are told to proceed withContinue reading “The Skinny on Fats”
Going Caveman With The Paleo Diet – Regressive or Progressive Evolution?
The Caveman Diet Movement, also called the Paleolithic (or Paleo) Diet, is not really a movement, but a comeback. In fact, it’s a comeback from more than 10 thousand years ago, and is gaining momentum. But unlike bell-bottoms, we should all take this burgeoning regression to our ancestral ways seriously and progress backwards towards betterContinue reading “Going Caveman With The Paleo Diet – Regressive or Progressive Evolution?”
