Best Books – Food Edition!
Today I wanted to share my favorite books on food. Some of them are cookbooks and others are a bit different. They’re all books that for one reason or another I really love. In one of his books, Michael Pollan talks about how people spend more time watching cooking shows than actually cooking these days. […]
My February Whole30 Win
Yep, this time around I finished the Whole30!! 🙂 I’ll jump right into the improvements and good things I’ve noticed: I feel more optimistic about my health. I don’t 100% feel like I’m ‘there’, but I feel like I’m definitely on the right path. I’m closer to ‘there’ than I was 2 months ago. I […]
My January Whole30 fail
My big goal for January was to complete a Whole30. I will say right off that I did not succeed. I was going strong through day 16 when everybody in the house came down with the stomach flu. I managed to stay compliant to the program for three whole days of the flu after that […]
Whole30 mega-post
In this post I’ll talk about what the Whole30 is all about, go over my experience with my first Whole30, provide some resources for if you’re interested in doing one, and talk about why I’m doing another one. I mentioned in my last post that this year I am focusing more on monthly goals than […]
Food! And food gadgets!!
This week I am experimenting with a new sous vide cooker that I picked up on sale over cyber Monday and a FoodSaver vacuum sealer that I got on sale at Costco. My friend Sarah stopped by a for a visit once and made us an excellent sous vide meal plus she’s always talking about […]
A Saturday field trip to Bosque Farms
B and I were itching to get out of the house today so we headed on a drive to Bosque Farms. My initial goal was to stop by the DeSmet Dairy, but we ended up making some extra stops. The DeSmet dairy sells fresh milk (raw or pasteurized), eggs and yogurt. It’s a low-key operation. […]
The one diet tip nobody mentions
There is one diet tip that I think could help a lot of people regardless of the diet that they are on. It doesn’t have to do with the rules of what or how much you eat. It has to do with making it easy and appealing to prepare the things you eat. And it’s […]
N things of the week – #14
The last week has been filled with lots of great stuff for me! Here’s a few of the highlights. Going to the gym (almost) daily I have been going to the gym pretty much every day for the last two weeks. I’d gotten in a slump about it in December because I was sick for […]
Dumpster bread (a.k.a dead guy food)
So I’ve been baking bread recently. Michael Pollan’s book Cooked has a whole section on baking bread and he goes very in depth into whole wheat flour, why it’s better than white flour, and why what is marketed as whole wheat often isn’t really whole wheat. Listening to it as an audio book made me […]
Yesterday we finally ran out of regular sugar… and a bunch of other thoughts on sugar and food
I thought I’d provide an update and a few reflections on my no-buying-sugar-for-the-year quest. In some ways the changes from it have proven to be more gradual than I expected. In other ways, the changes have proven to be much deeper and far-reaching than I expected. I figured that not buying sugar would quickly equate […]