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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May 28th, 2018 
Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Breakfast, Fitness Food, Special Recipes 
Comments Off on Almond Butter with Dried Cranberries, Flaxseed and Toasted Coconut Picture Recipe Almond Butter with Dried Cranberries, Flaxseed and Toasted Coconut Picture Recipe
May 27th, 2018 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Breakfast, Cycling, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, How To & Tips, Nutrition, Special Recipes Comments Off on Homemade Almond Butter: Training Food Extraordinaire – All in Pictures 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 out new versions of its iPhone, a Trader Joe’s salesman I’d gotten to know asked me quite bluntly, “Do you have a food processor?”
November 26th, 2017 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Breakfast, Cycling, Cycling Food, Drinks, Fruit, Lunch, Special Recipes Comments Off on Gorgeous November Bike Rip Followed by Breakfast for Lunch Gorgeous November Bike Rip Followed by Breakfast for Lunch
Out for a gorgeous late morning, late fall rip on the bike that featured a good look at one of my favorite cycling sights: Silverwood Organic Farm on Western Rd. in Sherbourne, MA. Sky was cloudy, wind snappy, temp. about 45 – perfect for November – and it all felt great under the Breitz! “Breeze Blaster” windbreaker over layered shirts.
Then home by noon to the full-on flavorful sweet and savory lunch shown below – fresh fruit, Greek yogurt, fresh almond butter, dried fruit, kefir and honey Read more »
June 5th, 2017 Blog, Cycling, Cycling Food, How To & Tips, Special Recipes Comments Off on 6 Days to Cancer Ride + Almond Butter Power Fuel in Pictures 6 Days to Cancer Ride + Almond Butter Power Fuel in Pictures
6 days to the Central Mass. Bicycles Battling Cancer ride (please consider donating – I’m just about half way to my $300 goal). Almond butter will certainly be part of the breakfast I have to power that ride next Sunday. I had a fat tablespoon of it just now with French toast (made with killeer BirchTree Bread Co. seeded levain bread) to prep for a 30+ mile I’ll take later this morning. Here’s what you need to make almond butter on your own.
The food processor does all the work (yah, you definitely need a food processor). You just have to clean the food processor when it’s done – but that cleaning is well worth the incredibly fresh, rich flavor. Click any picture on this page for complete step-by-step picture book directions that, you bet, include how to clean a food processor (sometimes you just can’t have too much fun!).
Fuel up, ride on!
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
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.
August 2nd, 2016 Blog, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Special Recipes Comments Off on Chop And Mix Fresh Salsa Step-By-Step Picture Book Recipe Chop And Mix Fresh Salsa Step-By-Step Picture Book Recipe
Dig salsa? I sure do, especially when it’s zesty crisp and fresh. Here’s how to make it on your own quickly, easily, AND much more flavorfully than what you find at the store.
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.
April 11th, 2016 Blog, Cycling Food, Special Recipes Comments Off on Yorkshire Pudding Picture Book Recipe Yorkshire Pudding Picture Book Recipe
I first made Yorkshire pudding a couple years ago when the Tour de France raced through Yorkshire province in England. Yorkshire pudding, as you can see in the picture above, is nothing like the pudding we’re used to in the states. Instead, it’s more like a combination of muffin and dinner roll made with equal parts flour, egg, and milk and seasoned lightly with salt and ground black pepper as shown in the ingredients picture below.
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,…
June 3rd, 2015 Blog, Fitness Food, Fruit, Snacks, Special Recipes Comments Off on Avocado and Mango Salsa – All in Pictures Avocado and Mango Salsa – All in Pictures
Last post showed how to cut a mango as easily and mess-free as possible. Here’s a great way to combine the “bite of tropical sunshine” fruit flavor of fresh mango with avocado, fresh cilantro, lime, garlic, red onion, and as much – or little – jalapeño pepper as you’d like to pack together an explosion of summertime flavor. Read more »
