Author: brucetretter
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Anti-Inflammatory Fresh Ginger Cilantro Kefir Salad Dressing Picture Book Recipe
If you’re an athlete or physically active at all, you know how inflammation exhibited in joint or muscle pain inhibits how you move your body. Inflammation is also a key contributor to diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and much more. The very easy to make, fully-flavorful fresh low fat salad dressing you see…
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Turning Lemons into Lemonade: Figuratively and Literally
First, the figurative lemon. I recently became part-owner of VOmax, makers of custom design performance sportswear. When my new business partner, Raj Singh, took ownership at the beginning of the year, the company was dysfunctional. Business was down. Morale was low. Our objective as new owners: transform the company from dysfunction to excellence. Easy to say,…
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A Friend’s Genuine Cancer Note and Fresh Ginger Mint Tea – Super Easy Hot or Cold
The tea you see above: great stuff I drink just about everyday and look forward to after rides preparing for a now annual Bicycles Battling Cancer, Ride to Remember, and other rides that add charitable purpose to my daily joy of cycling – and now, running. Regarding cancer charity efforts, I’m not a big Facebook…
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Almond Butter with Dried Cranberries, Flaxseed and Toasted Coconut Picture Recipe
Flavor rules – always! Cool thing about making almond – or any nut – butter on your own is that you can add anything you want to it to make it all yours.
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Homemade Almond Butter: Training Food Extraordinaire – All in Pictures
I’ve always been a big fan of almond butter: great flavor and texture, terrific energy sustainer. Years ago, when my favorite vendor of that almond butter – and many other favorite food products, Trader Joe’s, experienced a recall and then was only able to dole out cases of new almond butter the way Apple doles…
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Chewy Whole Grain Pancakes – All in Pictures
Last post showed how to make the best of a cooking fail as I tried to develop a whole grain pancake recipe that I’d forgotten I’d already developed last year. Memory’s great – when it works. Here’s how that chewy whole grain pancake turned out last year. Then, I topped a piece of that pancake…
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Whole Grain Pancakes, Part Negative 1 – In Pictures
Memory’s a great thing, especially when you forget. I’ve been posting a series of cycling training foods for the Bicycles Battling Cancer ride coming up June 10th out of Marlborough, MA, and thought it’d be great to put together a whole grain pancake made with some leftover brown rice, steel cut oats, and bulgur wheat…