My favourite thing of last week was a cabbage accompaniment to some very good pork chops –an old Jamie Oliver number I posted about way back in the early days of this blog. It’s a delicious fatfest – pork, pears, potatoes and parsnip – and needs a sharp accompaniment to balance all...
Some foods are naturally higher in carb content than others and it’s very important to start to get a good grasp of knowledge on this, particularly when it comes to whole foods that won’t havenutritional labelsattached to them in your local grocery stores such as potatoes or bananas. Once...
“Try not to have too much dairy or anything too heavy (nor too much); sweet potatoes, vegetables, and some carbohydrates are good. Regardless of distance, make sure you have something to eat in the morning before the race to replace glycogen stores lost while sleeping. Try and eat roughly...
Add the potatoes:Cut each potato into chunks, about 4cm in size. Add these to the baking tray. Drizzle over the olive oil. Place the chicken and potatoes in the oven for 20 minutes. Prep the vegetables:While the chicken is cooking, peel the red onion and cut each into 6 wedges. Scru...
Start to re-think your regular meals. Begin to ask yourself how can you remove the high-carb side dishes? What can you replace or remove? It’s as simple as that. You can still enjoy your regular roast dinner, just remove the bread, potatoes, root vegetables and enjoy non-starchy ...
Wanna know my trick to peeling kiwi fruit?It’s super simple, the fruit stays whole and look at how little fruit I’ve wasted on the peel! I was recently on bothABC7andCBS10showing off my kiwi fruit peeling skills. Well crap! The television station must have taken down the video (I...
fridge because you’ll unfollow me forever. But if I had to only choose one, it would be a smooth Dijon — this is a greateveryday Dijon mustard.This isa delightfully crunchy whole-grain Dijon, and this our currentfavorite spicy mustard, //Mustard-Roasted Potatoes,Dijon and Cognac Beef ...
The Vitamin B club. A lot of people are deficient in B-12 (methylcobalamin — found in meat), but others might be deficient in B-2 (riboflavin — found in yogurt, spinach, almonds, and eggs), or B-5 (pantothenic acid — found in avocados, mushrooms, and sweet potatoes), or B-6 ...