Extra Virgin Organic Olive Oil is a beautiful thing. The flavor is so rich with so many layers/notes..I absolutely love the stuff. But you know, sometimes you need a little heat & spice. So let’s amp up this wonderful oil..pump it up with roids..make it extreme..dress it up dangerously sexy. The recipe is given below. Recipe for Hot & Spicy Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil Shopping List: 1 Cup Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2 Organic Red Chile Peppers (or a hotter or milder pepper if you choose..remember your Scoville Units) to yield one Tablespoon when [...click to contimue reading...]
So have been running with the experiment of living without Gluten, Dairy, Nuts or Coffee just to get myself totally detoxed and level set to a completely healthy state. And so far the results have been fantastic… am able to go to bed earlier..sleep like a rock and wake up totally refreshed as opposed to being all grogged up from a food sensitivity hangover. Also, we’re talking about feeling this good while getting up at 4:30 AM .. Nice.
Jan 222008
I’ve been spending more time travelling lately for my business which makes it even more challenging to live Organic, Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free. There’s a ton of food available out there but the conventional crowd has quite literally fouled it up in one way or another. Did a few things that didn’t work out.. One was this mix of precooked vegi’s that included things such as sweet potatoes. That didn’t work too well as the sweet potatoes sort of melted as the day wore on and turned into this orange mush. ..Not good. A few good things [...click to contimue reading...]
Well, we made a few tweaks to the meat eater’s version of Boston Baked Beans (which used the traditional salt pork) and worked out a vegan version. Actually, we found that very few tweaks were necessary. These involved the amount of molasses used, extra virgin olive oil, additional cooking of the onions (to substitute flavor that had been in the salt pork) and adjusting the temperature & baking time (to give a little extra margin of protection between the oven temp. and the smoke point of the olive oil). And something really nice happened .. these [...click to contimue reading...]
Jan 122008
Boston Baked Beans is a classic American Recipe. And this is one of the great times of year to put them together..especially if you’re going to be home for several hours due to the weather or football. Anyway, we tried several variations of the classic recipe and have arrived at one that really produces some great beans…
Sorry I have been away from the blog for almost a week, but it’s been a tough one. Continued experimenting with Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Caffeine-Free Living and there have been tough days with some pretty harsh withdrawal symptoms. But one of the good outcomes to surface was in learning that I was anemic due to an iron deficiency. Prior to this I’d eat very clean during the week and have one off-day during the weekend. Turns out that upon analysis, my weekly diet (not counting the off-day) supplied about 50% of the RDA of iron..seems that the [...click to contimue reading...]
