Food usually comes to mind while I’m out on the bike. After a spectacularly colorful October ride, I came home to put together this recipe that combines the nutty flavors of pistachio pesto and hummus along with the fresh crunch of red bell pepper and creamy texture of avocado. Great stuff for a post-ride/workout meal or any lunch or dinner.
Archive for the ‘Cycling Food’ Category
November 3rd, 2015 
Beans, Blog, Cycling Food, Fitness/Health 
Comments Off on Microwave Cooked Pistachio Pesto and Hummus Quesadilla – All in Pictures Microwave Cooked Pistachio Pesto and Hummus Quesadilla – All in Pictures
October 23rd, 2015 Beans, Blog, Cycling Food Comments Off on How to Cook Dried Kidney Beans – All in Pictures How to Cook Dried Kidney Beans – All in Pictures
Buying and cooking dried instead of canned kidney (or any) beans has two distinct advantages: dried beans are less expensive than canned beans, and, unlike canned beans – even those labeled “low salt/sodium”, dried beans are not at all processed with added salt or preservatives. Here’s an example of an ingredients label from a bag of dried kidney beans in my kitchen.
October 15th, 2015 Beans, Blog, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, One Bowl Meals Comments Off on Microwave Beans Alfredo Fusion: Full-On Flavor and All in Pictures Microwave Beans Alfredo Fusion: Full-On Flavor and All in Pictures
I’m a big fusion fan! Here’s a fully flavorful, richly nutritious, and very easy to make recipe that came to mind while ripping it on a gorgeously colorful fall bike ride the other day that combines – or fuses – the Italian creamy Parmesan cheese flavor of a modified (less fat, lower calorie) Alfredo sauce with the richly flavorful and nutritious Latin American staples of kidney beans, cilantro, avocado, and tomato.
Here’s a picture of what you need to make a bowl of microwave cooked beans Alfredo fusion.
August 19th, 2015 Blog, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Snacks, Special Recipes Comments Off on Pistachio Pesto: Nutty, Herby, and All in Pictures Pistachio Pesto: Nutty, Herby, and All in Pictures
If you like pistachios and basil or are already a big fan of pesto, you’ll love this recipe. As I mention on the first page of the step-by-step picture book recipe shown below you can get by clicking any picture on this page,…
March 19th, 2015 Beans, Blog, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Snacks, Special Recipes Comments Off on How to Make Hummus – All in Pictures How to Make Hummus – All in Pictures
Like I mentioned in the last post that showed how to cook dried garbanzo beans (also known as chickpeas), garbanzo beans/chickpeas are nut-like in flavor, versatile, meaning they can be used in all kinds of recipes, and are highly nutritious, especially regarding their protein and fiber content. Read more »
March 12th, 2015 Beans, Blog, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, How To & Tips Comments Off on How to Cook Dried Garbanzo Beans (Chickpeas) – All in Pictures How to Cook Dried Garbanzo Beans (Chickpeas) – All in Pictures
If you’re not familiar with garbanzo beans or chickpeas, they are nut-like in flavor, versatile, richly nutritious (especially regarding protein an fiber), and extraordinarily appetite-satisfying. Below is a summary of nutrition facts (164 grams is 1 cup of cooked garbanzo beans), which you can click for a full garbanzo bean nutrition graphic posted by Condé Nast that was derived from USDA information.
NOTE: If you’re not used to eating foods high in fiber, like these beans, you can acclimate your body and minimize uncomfortable bloating by starting with a small amount of beans added to your meal and then steadily increasing that amount. I followed that advice myself, and it worked out great.
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!
February 16th, 2015 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling Food, Eggs, One Bowl Meals Comments Off on Microwave Cooked Power Cereal – Warm, Flavorful, and All in Pictures Microwave Cooked Power Cereal – Warm, Flavorful, and All in Pictures
You bet it’s cold outside, but there is a bright side. It’s mid-February, the days are getting longer, and everyday forward brings us closer to spring.
Still, all we ever have to deal with is the here and now. So, to make that here and now more comfortable, flavorful, easy to deal with…and nutritionally sound, here’s Microwave Power Cereal. Microwave Power Cereal has a lot going for it. First, it tastes great and requires only commonly found ingredients. Secondly, it gives you just what you need for a sustained energy burn by combining complex carbohydrates with protein. And finally, you use the same bowl to mix, cook, and eat the cereal from, which greatly minimizes cleanup. All good stuff! Read more »
September 5th, 2014 Blog, Cycling, Cycling Food Comments Off on Grafton-Mendon Ride and Post-Ride Lunch Grafton-Mendon Ride and Post-Ride Lunch
The pre-ride breakfast I posted here yesterday (below) kept me going no problem for a big smile 48.7 mile ride with good biking bud, Ken, out through Grafton and Mendon.
September 4th, 2014 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling, Cycling Food Comments Off on Pre-Rip Up the Road Balanced Breakfast 
