Tag Archives: love of food Thanksgiving is over, and now it’s time to refuel for the next round of holidays. From a food perspective, Christmas has a broad range of food that people consider traditional. For years I spent Christmas with friends who always had a roasted strip loin with Yorkshire puddings. Some people eat ham, others more turkey. Then […]  Today is Thanksgiving Day. I am spending it with my family, and the list of things I am thankful for is long, and for that I am doubly thankful. I try not to wait until this particular day to show or express gratitude; it is something I try to do each night before I go […]  You don’t hear much about barley (except here, where I seem to write about it a lot). It is similar in nutrition to quinoa, but not nearly as trendy. I am heralding barley as the nutritional, grain underdog, Barley Power! So far I’ve shown recipes for barley in soup, and I will again, but today […]  Who doesn’t want to shop like a chef? Have you ever seen a chef shopping? If you do, follow them around and watch what they buy. What chefs and professional cooks prepare at home isn’t the sort of fare you get a restaurants. Most professionals make simple, well prepared food. They use good ingredients, […]  Since the late 1970’s America has been on a quest to eradicate fat from our diets as a way to remove it from our middles, and at the forefront of that quest was a low fat diet. What this meant for us was replacing animal fats with vegetable fats, hydrogenating fats, using increased amounts of […] |
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