Filling Up? Carbs & The Cold!

Yes, the cold weather is coming (go ahead, call me a lightweight!  I admit that after living in LA for 16 yrs temps under 60 do feel cold, but this message applies to feeling cold… and so…) Are you starting to think about staying indoors, and eating warm, filling foods- hearty things like creamy pasta […]

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Another Example of My Hour In The Kitchen

  What's this?  Three dishes going at once… and that's just on the stove top.  For those of you who are regular readers, you'll recall  yesterday's post on salmon poaching technique (see dish at top R).   What I didn't mention was that the salmon dish was just one of three meals I was making […]

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The Twinkie Diet? Really?

Click here for the full article: TWINKIE DIET A nutrition professor used himself as the experiment; his premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most — not the nutritional value of the food. The premise held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months. For a class […]

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Pro Athletes Eat Kale, Too!

Click HERE for a link to today's LAVA Mag article that talks about 3x Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington eating kale… Ah- how happy I am to hear of more and more people who are EATING MORE KALE! : )  

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