September 4th, 2017 
Blog, Breakfast, Cycling, Cycling Food, Drinks (no alcohol) 
Comments Off on Love BIG Coffee! – with Picture Book Directions 
Just back from terrifically interesting, very fun HUGE Eurobike 2017 bike show in Friedrichshafen, Germany (show link has already been updated for 2018). More about this year’s show – with food – soon.
But first: don’t know about you, but I dig big coffee BIG time, but this is the biggest coffee I could get in Germany. Read more »
May 31st, 2017 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, French Toast, One Bowl Meals Comments Off on Great Training Fuel: French Toast Taken From “Simple to Exciting” – All in Pictures 
Yesterday’s post showed how to use your favorite bread to make French toast either in the pan or microwave oven. As mentioned in that post, the I bread used to make French toast last weekend was Seeded Levain bread from the BirchTree Bread Co. in Worcester, MA. (That bread, by the way, goes great with your favorite cheese, nut butter, and much more – terrific stuff!)
What you see below is all I needed to power a fantastically invigorating 60+ mile Bicycles Battling Cancer training ride from my town, Westborough, MA, through Northborough, Boylston, Sterling, Clinton, Bolton, Harvard, Read more »
May 30th, 2017 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, French Toast Comments Off on 12 Days to Cancer Ride and French Toast Training Fuel
12 days to the 100 mile Bicycles Battling Cancer ride through Central Massachusetts – you bet, I’d appreciate your support.
Regarding training, French toast, which combines sustained energy from the protein in eggs with the more immediate energy provided by complex carbohydrates in bread, is a great fuel for a good ride, run, or any activity that keeps your body in motion. I made the French toast shown above with a great local find: Seeded Levain bread from the BirchTree Bread Co. in Worcester, MA – I’ll be back for more soon! Tomorrow I’ll show how to take the French Toast I made above from “Simple to Exciting” to power a gorgeous 60+ mile training ride last weekend.
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 
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.
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 
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 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 
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 
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:
December 15th, 2015 Blog, Breakfast, Fruit Comments Off on 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 
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…
