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.
Posts Tagged ‘Bruce Tretter’
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?”
May 22nd, 2018 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Breakfast, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Pancakes Comments Off on Chewy Whole Grain Pancakes – All in Pictures 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 with nut butter and a pre-cooked fruit topping along with…
…fresh and dried fruit, and then…
…kefir, ground flaxseed, and a good shot of honey.
Click any picture on this page for a complete step-by-step picture book recipe – and then lay whatever you want on that finished pancake to make it all yours.
May 20th, 2018 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Pancakes Comments Off on Whole Grain Pancakes, Part Negative 1 – In Pictures 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 I’d made recently.
And that’s exactly what I did yesterday morning, combining an egg, vanilla extract, the whole grains I just mentioned, ground cinnamon, and raisins. – all to come up with this -…
…not quite a cohesive pancake. No problem. Next time, I told myself, “Just add some flour and maybe some nut butter”. Should work great.
And then I checked my notes while putting this post together and saw I’d actually made and shot a pancake exactly like that with all parts in place called “Improvised Chewy Whole Grain Pancakes” last August. Excellent!
So, why show what I did today here? Because even fails can taste great. I just put what I had in the pan in a bowl and topped that with a spoon of almond-peanut butter, some quickly cooked apple-mango-cranberry topping, dried fruit, kefir, ground flaxseed, and a shot of honey.
All good and plenty of fuel to keep me going for a 30+ mile good-paced training ride on the bike. Next time: the recipe I forgot to remember – all in pictures.
May 14th, 2018 Blog, Breakfast, Cereal, Cycling Food, Fitness Food Comments Off on Supercharged Oatmeal – Great Training Fuel! Supercharged Oatmeal – Great Training Fuel!
Here’s how to vary the flavor and supercharge oatmeal by adding protein and some fat to keep you fueled and satisfied for any kind of endurance athletic or physically demanding activity. First, though, a couple quick notes:
1. Flavor and taste – most important – are exceptionally personal. The ingredients you see below work great together – for me – but my taste is not your taste. For example, you’ll see in the picture below that I use plain nonfat Greek yogurt, which I love for its flavor, thick texture, and high protein content. You, however, might not like Greek yogurt – or any yogurt at all for that matter – and that’s ok. Skip it, replace it with something else – and do the same for any other ingredient you see below to make your simple to exciting oatmeal all yours. Read more »
May 6th, 2018 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Breakfast, Cooking Technique, Cycling, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Grains, How To & Tips Comments Off on Microwave Cooked Oatmeal: Great Move Your Body Food! Microwave Cooked Oatmeal: Great Move Your Body Food!
Want fuel move your body: prep for a good ride on the bike, run, workout, or to feel fully alive to start your day? Oatmeal’s a great favorite of mine – packed with complex flavorful carbs and fiber, and both those attributes can be well enhanced if you oppose them (i.e. supplement them) with protein or healthy fat.
More about opposing real soon. But first, click the picture above to learn how to cook oatmeal as quickly and easily as possible and that means cooking it in the microwave oven.
April 2nd, 2018 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Fitness/Health, Salads & Salad Dressings Comments Off on How Learning and Adapting Applies to Cycling and Fresh 5-Ingredient Salad Dressing How Learning and Adapting Applies to Cycling and Fresh 5-Ingredient Salad Dressing
It’s all about applied learning and adapting.
First, regarding cycling. Since becoming the Ops Officer at VOmax (performance sportswear) and driving to and from Northampton everyday, I’ve had to adapt to splitting time between rippin’ it on the real road, which I love, and crankin’ it on the “living room bike” (trainer), which no matter how hard I pedal never gets me to the kitchen.
February 9th, 2018 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Breakfast, Cereal, Cycling, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, One Bowl Meals Comments Off on Instant Hot Cereal From Cold Cereal Picture Book Recipe + Bicycles Battling Cancer Instant Hot Cereal From Cold Cereal Picture Book Recipe + Bicycles Battling Cancer
I’m an avid lifelong cyclist dedicated to improving cycling/running safety (breitzwear.com) and enabling people to eat better (gotta-eat.com). All connected, engaging & fun!
I rode the Central Massachusetts Bicycles Battling Cancer ride last June in memory of my dear ‘ol pioneering radiation Read more »
November 1st, 2017 Blog, Breakfast, Fruit Pancakes, Pancakes Comments Off on Full-on Flavorful Variation on an Apple Pancake Theme Full-on Flavorful Variation on an Apple Pancake Theme
You have to fuel up before you can ride on. And, man, I dig that most excellent part of the cycling life!
Last week I brought the apple blueberry pancake above to my good buds at VOmax, who I’ve partnered with to put out the Breitz! bright, bold & cool to wear line of cycling and running wear like what you see below. Adding blueberries or any fruit, dried fruit – anything you like – to an apple pancake is an easy way to improvise on the root recipe you can get, all in pictures, by clicking any picture on this page.
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September 9th, 2017 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Breakfast, Cereal, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Grains, One Bowl Meals Comments Off on EuroBike 2017 & Whole Grain Cereal with Fresh Fruit & Kefir Picture Recipe EuroBike 2017 & Whole Grain Cereal with Fresh Fruit & Kefir Picture Recipe
Like I mentioned in the last post, I learned a lot about European cycling culture at Eurobike 2017 in Friedrichshafen, Germany last week and also had some terrifically flavorful foods. Regarding cycling culture, the Europeans are way ahead of where we are and continue to improve. Always actively improving: I love it!
Here’s a German example of how downtown driving, cycling, and pedestrian access is put into practice. The car travel lane (not visible in the picture below) is far left. Cars park up to the sidewalk. The left side of the sidewalk is Read more »
