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! 
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
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 
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 
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 
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 »
September 4th, 2017 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling, Cycling Food, Drinks (no alcohol) Comments Off on Love BIG Coffee! – with Picture Book Directions 
Just back from terrifically interesting, very fun HUGE Eurobike 2017 bike show in Friedrichshafen, Germany (show link has already been updated for 2018). More about this year’s show – with food – soon.
But first: don’t know about you, but I dig big coffee BIG time, but this is the biggest coffee I could get in Germany. Read more »
August 8th, 2017 Blog, Cycling Food, Salads & Salad Dressings Comments Off on Easy, Fully Flavorful Tomato, Fresh Basil and Mozzarella Cheese Salad Picture Recipe 
One of my favorite summer foods is freshly picked, richly flavorful, no-kidding vine ripened tomatoes, which I always look forward to getting get straight off the field at Berberian’s Farm in Northborough, MA.
July 11th, 2017 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Cycling Food, Lunch Comments Off on Improvised Post Ride Lunch: Oats with Vegetables, Cheese and More July 7th, 2017 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Cycling, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Fruit Comments Off on TDF2017 Stage 7 + Summer Fruit Topping Picture Recipe 
Live coverage of Tour de France stage 7 from Troyes to Nuits Saint George in central eastern France is on. Guys will be rippin’ it for more than 125 miles very challenging miles in the saddle – maybe some of it chased by women on horses as shown above during yesterday’s stage 6. Cool!
Last post showed how to combine crepes with a warm summer fruit topping. Great stuff! Here’s what I used to make that fruit topping a few days ago, Read more »
5 years ago our Westborough, MA, Board of Selectmen established a Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee charged with improving cycling and pedestrian access and safety and building trails in town. Over the past 5 years, we’ve worked persistently to do exactly that. We’ve installed 9 sets of Carmanah R920 solar-powered flashing crosswalk signs, like those shown below, at well used, high-priority crosswalks in Read more »
