Category: Fitness Food
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Microwave Cooked Quinoa Alfredo – Fast and Flavorful
Last post showed how to microwave oven cook quinoa. Like rice and pasta, quinoa, with it’s nutty flavor and snap-and-pop texture is incredibly versatile Here’s one of my favorite fast and flavorful quinoa meals: microwave cooked quinoa Alfredo,
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How to Cook Quinoa on the Stove Picture Book Directions
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Quinoa (pronounced “keen-wah”) is one of my favorite…seeds. Yah, right away, that’s one of the things that makes it stand out. Quinoa is not a member of the true grain family, like wheat, barley, rye and other “grass grains”. Instead, quinoa, which comes in white, red, and black color variations, is really a seed, and, specifically, it’s the…
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Warm Fruit Topping to Fuel a Winter Training Ride
Yes, it’s February, but any day cycling the road sure beats a day on the living room trainer, especially when there are sights like those below before the snow blew in last night. Bottom line: Weather’s a state of mind. Just be prepared. For me that means, step one, “goose fat” (homemade mix of avocado…
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Roast Turkey – Warm, Fully Flavorful Feast Any Day
With all that it has to offer: its signature warm smell while it roasts, terrific comforting flavor fresh out of the oven, incredible leftover versatility, and much more, especially when it’s cold out, why have roasted turkey just on Thanksgiving? I’ve roasted two turkeys since Thanksgiving: one to have leftovers at home after Thanksgiving, which…
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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…