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Since the Fourth of July, we’ve been on an ice cream making tear, a fact which probably hasn’t escaped the notice of regular readers of this blog. I’ve heard from some of you who have tried your hand at making low-carb ice cream from the blog recipe and most of you reported that the taste and texture of these low carb creams are pretty darned good. And I agree. Their one deficiency is in what’s called ‘mouth feel.’
Most Saturday mornings, when we’re at our place in Santa Barbara, you’ll find us at our local farmers’ market downtown. We’ve been avid farm produce shoppers for as long as I can remember and have haunted farmers’ markets across the country and even abroad, but I have to say that the Saturday market in downtown Santa Barbara is one of the very best I’ve ever seen.
In the recipe I posted on July 5 for the Coconut Milk Ice Cream, an astute reader caught a glaring error: the last ingredient listed in this ‘supposedly casein-free’ version was (gulp!) heavy cream.
To me Fourth of July tradition demands a barbecue lunch topped off with real strawberry shortcake, made the old-fashioned way. That means flavorful, fresh berries, just swimming in their syrupy sweetened juices, poured over homemade honest-to-Pete shortbread biscuits–none of those little sponge cake cups they sell at the store for this Southern girl–with a big fat dollop of freshly whipped cream on top.
Another one of those little news tidbits that Mike finds throughout the day and posts on the home page had the most intriguing title: Chocolate as sunscreen. Now you’re talking. The thrust of the piece is that research has suggested that when we eat dark cocoa, the catechins (flavanoid antioxidant compounds) in it make their…
Well, the kamikaze bunny ate my first tomato–actually I don’t know for sure that he ate it, but it’s gone and he’s highly suspect. Other tiny tomatoes are set, many blooms are yet to set, but the numero uno tomato of the season fell victim to Bunnicula.
When something calls for a casual warm weather celebration at our house, that usually means whipping up a pitcher of icy cold margaritas. Once the notion of having them comes up someone–usually one of the real margarita junkies, i.e., me, our son Ted, or one of our daughters-in-law, Jamye or Katharine–starts what’s become an Eades…
For my birthday last year, Mike took me to New York City to see a pair of performances at the Met and, on the day itself, to eat at the downtown location of Les Halles, the fabulous French brasserie founded by celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. I’ve wanted to go there since my thoughtful husband gifted me with a copy of Mr. Bourdain’s hilarious (and well-written) cookbook, The Les Halles Cookbook. I laughed until the tears rolled down my cheeks as Mike read aloud the descriptive text of how to properly prepare Cote de Boeuf.
I recently received a letter from a reader that asked about the protein-sparing effect of carbs. He sent me the address of a bodybuilding website he had been reading and wanted to know if what the guy who wrote the material said was true. The basic premise of the piece is that in order to…
Mike posted this article today among the “In The News” bits: Potassium Salt Substitute Is Good for the Heart. Once again, the day’s headlines trumpet ground-breaking nutritional news, hot off the press, so new, so revolutionary, and so cutting-edge…at least it was when we wrote about it in the LifePlan 6 years ago and, before that, in Protein Power 10 years ago.
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