me lucky oats

On March 16, 2011 By

I will admit that some­times I judge things by their cover. Some­times you can’t help it though!

For years I longed to buy a can of McCann’s Irish Oats in the metal tin. It looked so retro and cool! And it’s from Ire­land! OMG!!!!1! (Don’t you love how illog­i­cal the consumer’s brain is?) But […]

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nutrition is nomtastic!

On March 14, 2011 By

March is National Nutri­tion Month and in honor of that, this video is my first install­ment in a series of videos on nutrition.

It’s not some crazy, super sci­en­tific video, but real­iz­ing the mis­con­cep­tions and just plain lack of knowl­edge many Amer­i­cans pos­sess on nutri­tion basics, this video starts with my own lit­tle mini-rant about […]

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Treat of the Week– Fruit Juice Sweetened Cookies

On March 11, 2011 By

Wel­come to week 2 of Treat of the Week. As promised, here is my recipe for some lovely, choco­laty cook­ies made with the fruit juice reduc­tion we made ear­lier in the week. Sun­spire makes some grain sweet­ened choco­late chips, which are per­fect if you are look­ing to be com­pletely cane sugar free.

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mexi-can– in a flash!

On March 10, 2011 By

Have you ever seen these A Man, A Can, A Plan books? They are basi­cally cook­ing pic­ture books. I feel like call­ing it cook­ing is even a stretch, as they are truly food assem­bly books– a can of this, a box of this and voilà! Dinner!

I used to scoff at them for […]

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cleanse thyself– you decide why

On March 9, 2011 By

Today is Ash Wednes­day, mark­ing the first day of Lent. It is also the day after Mardi Gras. Whether ask­ing for for­give­ness from above or ask­ing for for­give­ness from your liver, break­ing your fast with a deli­cious green smoothie is the way to go.

Stay with me here.

I know, I know. Sure, you’ve read […]

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an ode to citrus

On March 8, 2011 By

Grow­ing up in sub­ur­ban Min­nesota, my ideas of cit­rus were lim­ited to the occa­sional (and elu­sive) man­darin, grape­fruit and the ever-present navel orange. With its thick skin and impos­si­ble pith, oranges were my least favorite fruit so I just assumed that I didn’t really like citrus.

So, when we moved to Ari­zona and Jim […]

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reduce the juice

On March 7, 2011 By

As I’d men­tioned before, I’ve started work­ing with fruit juice as a sweet­ener in some bak­ing exper­i­ments. Why not just use agave or maple syrup, you ask? Well, there is some con­tro­versy regard­ing the safety of agave nec­tar in larger quan­ti­ties (just Google it, if you’re curi­ous) and maple syrup is ter­ri­bly expen­sive to be […]

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treat of the week: carrot cake bread

On March 4, 2011 By

Woo-hoo!

It’s the first Fri­day on the new nom! nom! nom! and do you know what that means? Of course you don’t, it’s the first one! Let it be known across the land that Fri­days shall now be known as the day we show­case our Treat of the Week. Huzzah!

I’m not a huge fan […]

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