Archive for July, 2008
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Lardy, lardy when will they learn?
Friday’s Santa Barbara Newspress carried a front page article trumpeting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signing of legislation that phases out the use of trans fats in commercially-prepared (but not pre-packaged) food–i.e., in restaurant and cafeteria foods. (I would love to link to the full article, but the SBNP makes its online service available only to [...]
23 Comments » - Posted in food and food products, nutrition, rants by mdeades
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Curried Chicken and Veggie Cauli-Cauli (aka faux cous-cous)
Thanks to the miracle that is the world wide web, our blogs reach people in all parts of the globe. Just the other day, for example, a reader from India wrote telling us that she had purchased our book Protein Power and was persuaded by it to commit to the diet to lose weight [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in recipes, travel by mdeades
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
An Independence Day Feast
Day after tomorrow, July 4, we Americans–most of us at least–will gather together in backyards and parks, on beaches and boardwalks, in small groups and giant crowds to celebrate our nation’s birthday with fireworks and music and, most of all, food.
We plan to do likewise. Although we’re headed back up to Tahoe in a [...]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Cauli-Cauli: delish low carb cous-cous
We were having a friend over for dinner a few weeks ago for a simple steak cookout. Usually I opt for ease on these occasions and roast squash or asparagus on the grill while I’m cooking the steaks. This night, however, I had a buzz on to have something a little different, something [...]
