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 […]

Diets, I think we can all agree, are stupid.  We’ve all been there.  We get fed up with our current state of being, declare loudly “That’s it, I’m never eating again” and then go on some crazy restrictive diet that cuts out your favorite foods and has you chomping on raw celery and plain tuna […]

Halloween marks the beginning of the truly scary season.  Not because of ghosts, goblins, or creatures that annoyingly go bump in the night when I just want a few hours of uninterrupted sleep…I’m looking at you, cats.  No, Halloween is terrifying because that’s the start of Eating Season.  Truth be told, most people treat every day […]

Taking foods I once enjoyed and remaking them into something decidedly more healthy – that’s how I manage to maintain the weight loss that I set out to achieve seven years ago. It’s a sustainable strategy for life, versus losing weight on a strict, plain chicken breast-and-broccoli diet or like-minded plan – which eventually people […]

Let’s face it, people in general are stupid. It’s been proven that all you have to do to convince the masses that a lie is the truth is just keep repeating it. How outlandish, improbable, or transparently made up the falsehood may be does not matter. Every two-bit con man, grifter, or politician knows the […]

For all of you faithful readers out there, I’ve been on a bit of a banana kick with recipes lately.  I’m throwing a curveball, or rather, an orange ball this time.  I’ve covered plenty of fruits in this column, strawberries, blueberries, the aforementioned banana, but never the trusty orange.  Maybe that’s because most people only get this […]

I’ve been ushering in winter by leaving all the windows open at night and getting the house down to 50 degrees during the day, just to get back in the slow cooker soups and stews of the colder months.  They are easy, free up most of your cooking day, and can be very healthy if you […]

Dear readers, we have been on a roll with both songs and bananas as of late. I’ll give you a break with the former this week, but we will stick with the latter for one more ride. Bananas are easy to get and relatively cheap as fruits go, they travel well, and contrary to rumors, don’t really […]

Well, it seems we are hitting a running theme of getting a song stuck in your head three weeks in a row. Why not? Cooking is always better when some tunes are playing. So anyone familiar with Van Halen’s self titled album from 1978 will be very familiar with today’s topic…ice cream. That’s right, stop […]