Archive for August, 2005
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
Wrap It Up
Recently, our good friend and fellow author Loren Cordain (The Paleo Diet) and family came to dinner at our house during their annual summer trip to Lake Tahoe. They gifted us with a large, whole trout that their sons had caught on a fishing trip on the lake. We love cooking whole fish [...]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2005
Prickly Pear: Every Rose Has A Thorn
Of all the edible wild foods that man has figured out how to exploit, one has to wonder about how hungry he must have been to tackle the prickly pear. (To be perfectly correct, I would speculate that woman probably tackled this one while man was out tackling the cave bear. It’s a [...]
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
Low Carb Pizzas on the Grill
In the hot days of summer it’s no fun to heat up the kitchen and so we find ourselves looking for dishes to make that are either cold or can be cooked on the grill. We’ve recently been indulging in pizzas on the grill. Say what? You read right. Pizza on the grill [...]
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005
Sugar Alcoholics
Back in the good old days of low carb dieting,life was simpler. A prudent and sensible low carb diet consisted of real food–real beef, real chicken, real fish, real cheese, real butter, real cream, real olive oil, real nuts, real lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, strawberries, melon…you get the picture. That [...]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
How Does Your Medicine Cabinet Grow?
The fields of lavender in the Santa Ynez valley (and one would presume in Provence and elsewhere throughout the world where the herb grows wild) are in full bloom. Bundles of fresh lavender perfume our local farmers’ markets, in Santa Barbara and Santa Fe, where stalls sell everything lavender from oils, soaps, bath salts, [...]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Hug Your Way To Health
If stress reduction is on your to-do list, a new study by Dr. Karen Grewen and colleagues at the University of North Carolina suggests that you need to add a loving hug or two to your daily regimen. Doing so has been shown to enhance the release of one of the body’s natural stress-fighting [...]
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Sunday, August 7th, 2005
Cascarones: An Egg-cellent Idea
We often get questions from readers or viewers wanting to know what to do with left over egg yolks or egg whites when they’ve used the one or the other for a recipe. There are plenty of options, but that’s for another blog. Today I want to talk about what do to with [...]
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Friday, August 5th, 2005
Yogurt di bufala: A Little Cup of Heaven
A couple of years back, Mike and I went with a group of food friends (restaurateurs, food writers, cookbook authors and editors) on a ten day jaunt through Campania, lead by the indomitable Faith Willinger, an American ex-pat and author of the best-selling Eating in Italy and Red, White, and Greens and one of the [...]
