Last week, I wrote about biscuits and how they can be reworked into a healthier alternative to the pre-packed store bought version.  What prompted that was a craving for red beans and rice with sausage.  I guess it’s possible to have one without the other, but why would you?  So, today is the companion piece […]

Bruce Lee famously had to win a fight against the best hand picked martial artist in order to keep teaching Westerners the art of Wing Chun.  He won, but barely, and was struck by how much of what he had learned wasn’t useful in actual combat.  Lee decided a brand new approach was in order. […]

It absolutely blows my mind when it comes to the extremes people will go to in order to lose weight. Nevermind eating less processed foods, taking in slightly less calories than you use in a day, and moving more. Let’s go on some crazy restrictive diet, use some weird piece of equipment, or take some […]

When fall comes around, pumpkin gets all the press, thanks mainly to Starbucks and their sugar laden, calorie infested Spice latte drinks.  Don’t get me wrong, I love pumpkin, just not from a coffee shop spiked with enough sugar to kill an elf pulling a double shift in that North Pole sweatshop.  There are other winter squashes […]

I have a plethora of childhood memories centered around being held hostage at the dinner table, arms crossed, locked in a staring contest at an ever colder growing pile of some green mush, refusing to eat it.  I’m not sure why my parents had this occasional line in the sand forcing me to eat some […]