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  • Only You Have the Power to Empower You!

    Mar 18, 2025

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    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Self-empowerment comes from within and is key to living positively. This site, with its picture book recipes, will help enable self-empowerment in the kitchen even if you’ve never cooked before.

  • Warm Apple Fruit Topping From Simple to Exciting Picture Book Directions

    Mar 8, 2025

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Picture book recipe guided demonstration showing how to improvise on a base recipe to make that recipe all your own regarding flavor and/or personal dietary needs.

  • Easy to Make, Versatile Warm Apple Fruit Topping Picture Recipe

    Mar 1, 2025

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    If you put your ear really close to the device you’re using to read this, you might hear the sound of screeching brakes. And rightly so. Last post showed how to make a warm apple cranberry fruit topping. Nothing wrong…

  • Warm Apple Cranberry Fruit Topping Picture Book Recipe

    Feb 22, 2025

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    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Picture book recipe directions show how to make a warm apple cranberry fruit topping.

  • Quick & Easy Microwave Warmed Spinach & Pear Salad Picture Recipe

    Feb 17, 2025

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    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Warming brings out the full flavor of the pear in this salad and only slightly softens the spinach leaves – and is an easy improvisation on the recently posted warm spinach & apple salad.

  • Quick & Easy Microwave Warmed Spinach & Apple Salad Picture Recipe

    Feb 10, 2025

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    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Warming this salad brings out the flavor of the spinach and apple and is incredibly easy to do in the microwave oven.

  • The Clot Thickens, Part 2: Further Momentum Against the Diet-Heart Hypothesis

    Jan 29, 2025

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Heart disease is the number one killer in the US, and some of the advice about preventing it has been dead-on wrong. Here’s an example. I first wrote about the relationship, or really lack of relationship, between eating saturated fat…

  • Fast 5-Ingredient with Fresh Garlic Salad Dressing Picture Book Directions

    Jan 20, 2025

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    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Picture book recipe shows how to make an easy, richly versatile 5-ingredient salad dressing with fresh garlic.

  • 2 Keys to Kitchen Knife Safety: Keeping Knives Sharp and Hand Position While Cutting

    Jan 14, 2025

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    by

    Bruce Tretter
    in Learn to Cook

    Keeping kitchen knives sharp and using curled fingers both to grip food and as a knife guide are keys to kitchen knife safety.

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I help people feel comfortable making a meal on their own – even if they’ve never boiled water – through Gotta’ Eat, Can’t Cook picture book recipes and help make roads safe for all with Breitz! “6 Feet, Thanks!” performance wear. Naval Intelligence Officer veteran, BikeWalkNC VP, dad of 3, avid cyclist, scrappy runner.

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