Last post showed how to ripen and prepare fresh kiwifruits (kiwis). Here’s a fully flavorful way to have those kiwis warmed in a pan with fresh apples and cranberries either as is or over hot cereal, or any way you like.
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February 2nd, 2017 
Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Blog, Breakfast, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Fruit, Special Recipes 
Comments Off on Warm Apple, Kiwi and Cranberry Fruit Topping Picture Book Recipe Warm Apple, Kiwi and Cranberry Fruit Topping Picture Book Recipe
January 24th, 2017 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Blog, Breakfast, Fitness Food, Fruit Comments Off on How to Ripen and Prepare Fresh Kiwifruit (Kiwi) Picture Book Directions How to Ripen and Prepare Fresh Kiwifruit (Kiwi) Picture Book Directions
Kiwifruits, also known as kiwis, are native to Southern China but are now grown around the world with a fresh fruity flavor that’s a cross between bananas, strawberries and pineapple. Kiwifruits are rich in vitamins A, C and E, and their black seeds, when crushed or chewed, are an excellent source of beneficial Omega-3 fatty acids.
June 9th, 2016 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Breakfast, Cereal, Cycling Food, Fruit Comments Off on Adapting to Specific Dietary Needs: 2 Easy Steel Cooked Oats Picture Book Recipes Adapting to Specific Dietary Needs: 2 Easy Steel Cooked Oats Picture Book Recipes
Adapting recipes to specific dietary needs doesn’t have to be hard at all – and best of all – can be done with NO COMPROMISE IN FLAVOR. You bet!
Here are two very easy-to-make steel cut oats breakfast recipes that are very much the same – with just one slight exception. The recipe on the left is made completely with ingredients that are anti-inflammatory (AID in the title=Anti-Inflammatory Diet). The recipe on the right contains raisins, which can be substituted by any choice of dried fruit. Dried fruit, however, can cause discomfort to those with irritated digestive tracts. Removing the raisins/dried fruit is an easy fix.
April 18th, 2016 Blog, Breakfast, Special Recipes Comments Off on Breakfast Yorkshire Pudding Picture Book Recipe Breakfast Yorkshire Pudding Picture Book Recipe
April 19th is Patriots’s Day, the day the first shots were fired in 1775 in Lexington, Massachusetts, between British troops and American colonists. On that day, and all through the Revolutionary War that lasted 8 years, all Americans were still considered British subjects.
Why the brief history? Because I think it’s an enlightening backdrop to breakfast Yorkshire pudding, which as easy to make as they are fantastically flavorful to eat.
January 28th, 2016 Blog, Breakfast, Fruit, Nutrition Comments Off on Fresh Fruit vs. Dried Fruit Nutritional Value Fresh Fruit vs. Dried Fruit Nutritional Value
An extraordinarily friendly woman I check out with almost everytime I take a run through BJ’s Wholesale Club in Northborough, MA, noticed a bag of mixed dried fruit along with containers of fresh fruit in my shopping cart and asked, “What’s better for you, dried or fresh fruit? I’ve tried looking it up online, but I can’t find a good answer.”
Bottom line: fresh fruit is by far better for the following three reasons:
- vitamin and nutrient content in dried fruit is diminished through the fruit drying process, more so when that fruit is dried more aggressively commercially instead of more gently dried at home either in the oven or in a food drier
- ounce for ounce, dried fruit contains more sugar and calories than fresh fruit (that makes sense as most of the weight in fresh fruit is water, and that water is removed through rapid evaporation when the fruit is dried leaving only the fruit flesh behind)
- though fresh fruit may not be free of chemicals due to pesticide use depending how that fruit is grown, fresh fruit does not contain preservatives the way some fresh fruits do to enhance color and shelf life
December 15th, 2015 Blog, Breakfast, Fruit Comments Off on Warm Apple & Papaya Fruit Topping – All in Pictures Warm Apple & Papaya Fruit Topping – All in Pictures
This fresh and very quickly cooked apple and papaya fruit topping goes great either warm right out of the pan or chilled on hot or cold cereal, waffles, pancakes, French toast, yogurt, or ice cream.
But what if apples or papaya aren’t available – or you don’t like either of them? No problem. Instead of apple, you can use pear or any other fruit, though the picture book instructions you can get here for this recipe showing how to prepare apples for cooking apply identically to pears. You can also substitute papaya with pineapple, mango, or even banana, or really any other fresh fruit that’s available that you like. As always, imagination and taste are your only limits.
December 8th, 2015 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling Food, Pancakes Comments Off on Banana Flax Pancakes – Fully Flavorful, Easy to Make & All in Pictures Banana Flax Pancakes – Fully Flavorful, Easy to Make & All in Pictures
The hardest part of making these full-on flavorful banana flax pancakes – and it’s not that hard to do at all – is flipping them in the pan because there is no fat or oil added to the batter. I, therefore, recommend using a sturdy spatula like the metal-bladed spatula shown here as well as…
June 20th, 2015 Blog, Breakfast, Fruit, Kid-Friendly Recipes Comments Off on Kid-Safe To Make Father’s Day Fresh Berries, Yogurt, Jam & Whipped Cream – All In Pictures Kid-Safe To Make Father’s Day Fresh Berries, Yogurt, Jam & Whipped Cream – All In Pictures
Here’s a fully flavorful, completely kid-safe to make recipe kids can put together quickly and easily for Father’s Day – or anytime at all.
All you need are the following ingredients – that don’t require any cutting with a knife – and…
June 14th, 2015 Blog, Breakfast, Fruit, Kid-Friendly Recipes Comments Off on Kid-Friendly Grapes and Banana with Yogurt and Jam – All in Pictures Kid-Friendly Grapes and Banana with Yogurt and Jam – All in Pictures
Last post was about why bananas are GREAT food. This post shows how to put bananas to use with a quick & easy grapes & banana with yogurt and jam recipe that’s fresh, fully flavorful, and kid-safe to make.
The key to kid-safety is that this recipe doesn’t require the use of knife. The grapes can be eaten whole, and the banana can be broken into smaller pieces and sections by hand as shown in the two side-by-side pictures below.
February 25th, 2015 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling Food Comments Off on Microwave Cooked Oatmeal – Flavor, Nutrition & All in Pictures Microwave Cooked Oatmeal – Flavor, Nutrition & All in Pictures
Last post showed how to make flavorful, energy-sustaining microwave cooked power cereal to give you a warm, full-powered start to these exceptionally cold days we’ve been experiencing. Considering those temperatures aren’t expected to change much in the foreseeable future, here’s something else to look forward to as you climb out of bed in the morning and hit that cold floor running that’s flavorful, richly nutritious, and easy to make – microwave cooked oatmeal.
Here’s what you’ll need to put together a simple version of microwave cooked oatmeal. Next post, I’ll show how to take what you see here from simple to exciting!
