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November 23rd, 2016

Blog, Chicken & Turkey, Cooking Technique, How To & Tips, Seasonal/Holiday Recipes, Thanksgiving Dinner

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Stress-Free Roast Turkey Picture Book Recipe

Years ago I put together what I thought was the most stress-free roast turkey picture book recipe available. That recipe produced terrifically tender results because it required roasting the turkey at consistently high heat (450℉/230℃) mostly with the bird in a breast-side down position. Leaving the the turkey breast-side down for most of the roasting time protects the more delicate breast meat from direct heat and also allows the fat in turkey’s legs and thighs to baste the rest of the bird naturally by gravity. That technique, though, has two significant drawbacks: high heat roasting works well only for turkeys weighing up to 15 pounds and consistent high heat roasting temperature creates a lot of smoke in the kitchen. Read more »

November 16th, 2016

Blog, Dessert, Seasonal/Holiday Recipes, Thanksgiving Dinner

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Fresh and Easy Apple Pie Picture Book Recipe

All right! My favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, is just around the corner. Friends, family, great flavors, terrific smells – and for some, a 4-day holiday!

The fresh and easy apple pie you see here goes great for dessert anytime, but particularly for Thanksgiving.

Here’s all you need to make this pie. I put the pie crust in a separate insert picture because the recipe itseslf doesn’t show how to make a pie crust, though there is a link to an easy recipe showing how to make the crust shown in that insert.

October 28th, 2016

Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Vegetables

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Oven Roasted Delicata Squash Picture Book Recipe

I was first introduced to delicata squash only recently when I shot the recipe you see here with a good friend of mine. I’m now a big fan!

October 5th, 2016

Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Cooking Technique, Fitness Food, How To & Tips, Vegetables

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Oven Roasted Butternut Squash Picture Book Recipe

The toughest part about roasting butternut squash, if you want it in cubed shaped pieces the way you see above, is removing the outer skin as shown in the picture below. After removing the skin (I recommend using a tougher vegetable peeler than the weak and worthless one you see here), roasting is the easiest, most flavorful way I know to prepare butternut squash.

August 2nd, 2016

Blog, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Special Recipes

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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.

June 9th, 2016

Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Breakfast, Cereal, Cycling Food, Fruit

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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.

May 31st, 2016

Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Blog, Fitness/Health

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Why Eat Anti-Inflammatory Foods?

April 28th, 2016

Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Fitness Food, Salads & Salad Dressings

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Fresh Garlic Ginger Salad Dressing Picture Book Recipe

Not too long ago, I showed how to grate or chop fresh ginger and then how to make a fresh low-fat kefir salad dressing packed not only with full-on flavor but also packed with anti-inflammatory ingredients that included ground turmeric, mustard, apple cider vinegar, ground flaxseeds, ground black pepper, and honey. Great stuff!

The fresh garlic ginger salad dressing you see here is a little twist on the fresh low-fat kefir salad dressing in that it substitutes kefir (a fermented milk, yogurt-like drink that’s packed with beneficial – or good for you – bacteria) with olive oil and also adds freshly chopped cilantro.

Here are the ingredients you need to make fresh garlic ginger salad dressing.

Click any picture on this page for a complete, easy-to-follow step-by-step picture book recipe.

April 18th, 2016

Blog, Breakfast, Special Recipes

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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

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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.