Actually, I should have said egg as I used only one in this preparation. I also had a friend who bet me I couldn’t find a way to use the word ubiquitous in a blog. But, overall this is the kind of home cooked breakfast many of us guys drool and slobber just thinking about. I … Continue reading
Here’s a recipe that anyone can make and which is pretty cheap to make with store bought ingredients. (It’s even cheaper if you have some of the items in a garden out back). Ingredients: 132 g beef cubed, optional (half cup) 60 g white onion (half a medium onion) 71 g Russet potato (small potato) … Continue reading
For five dollars and change, I decided to depart from good culinary sense and bought a Big Mac and small fry this date. My first such sandwich since a couple of years ago. While the taste was all I remember it to be, I can see why so many of us carry around those extra … Continue reading
Like so many Americans, I’ve managed to eat perhaps one or two more meals than I should this winter, and yeah maybe there was an ill-advised beer along with that irresistible bag of chips on the weekends that have pushed my weight beyond what is healthy. The real warning signal, however, was when my favorite … Continue reading
If you’re one of those trying to reduce your salt intake, Congrats. That’s a tough call in a world where the mega food suppliers are actively conspiring against you. Almost any food, especially poorer quality foods, taste a lot better if you add more salt. Corporations have relied on this fact for decades, supplying inferior … Continue reading
While this may sound far-fetched right now, scientists in England say it might make sense for fast food joints to dispense cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to their customers. In a paper published in the current issue of the American Journal of Cardiology, Dr. Darrel Francis and colleagues calculate that the reduction in cardiovascular risk offered by … Continue reading
A recent visit to the local grocery store in my town of Forsyth, Missouri convinced me more than ever that many of us should consider planting a small garden. Lettuce was well over a dollar a head, celery was pushing two dollars and you don’t even want to here about the cost of bell peppers! … Continue reading
Some days you just want to make soup, but depressingly you are missing some of the key ingredients. That’s where you can do what I do! Scrounge around and make the damn thing on the fly! On this occasion, I had some old frozen beef stew meat, a can each of diced tomatoes, corn and … Continue reading
This morning while perusing the fridge in search of something to eat, I spied some chicken and rice that was in a Tupperware container. Problem was, how long had it been in there? I couldn’t remember. But, I thought, I’ll just make sure to ‘nuke’ it really well in the old microwave. That should kill … Continue reading
