This recipe was inspired by my wife’s pregnancy cravings. She specifically really wanted deli meats, which are forbidden during pregnancy due to concerns over listeria – a bacteria that can be especially problematic for fetuses and babies. This recipe is also super easy. It takes about 3 minutes of “prep time” to simply salt and […]
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Perimetarian Produce: Fruit
Produce is a tricky thing. It is probably the singular part of the grocery store that nearly everyone agrees is full of healthy options (excepting carnivores). Whether you’re following vegan, paleo, or weight watchers, you can find the bulk of your dinner plate in the produce section. Let’s start with a primer on fruit vs. […]
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Chicken Fantastico
I began making this recipe almost 20 years ago. At the time, I’d marinate the chicken in grocery-store-bought Italian dressing. Since I now avoid the vegetable/seed oils that are the base of nearly every standard salad dressing, I make my own marinade from scratch. Don’t worry, the homemade marinade only has 3 ingredients and takes […]
Nutrition Facts are Ruining Our Health
Nutrition Facts are on just about everything… They were my guiding beacon when I first began pursuing healthful eating fifteen years ago. At the time, my main source of health information was Mens Health magazine, which is basically Cosmo but for men. (I will credit Mens Health for helping to establish the desire to do […]
The Meat / Plant choice: GMO and pesticides, best as your food’s food.
Author Michael Pollan has an elegant way about how he boils complex topics down to a sentence or even just a phrase. A couple of my favorites include: Yet there is still a plant-based bend to a lot of his quotes and the two I’d like to dive into are below. This is not an […]
Eat Local -ish (the 100 mile challenge)
A long time ago, the seed of an idea was planted by Chef Emeril Lagasse, of all people. (At least I swear I saw this on his show ~10 years ago, but a quick internet search yielded nothing but the 100 mile diet – which is an intriguing book I’ll be reading soon.) During a […]
Aisle exceptions: Sauces & Dressings
The great Mark Sisson said that his inspiration for Primal Kitchen Foods came from a failed cookbook he wrote about how to create make-your-own sauces at home. He had had success with his first several books, and ordered several hundred thousand copies for his sauces & dressings cookbook. A decade later, most of those cookbooks […]