I have a great love affair with chickpeas. It’s the potato of the bean world. You can prepare it a multiple of ways and it is a great source of protein. Fry it for a snack, add it to a soup or stew, make hummus, or do this: oven roast it and add it to [...]
Archive | April, 2010
A Quick Trip to the Oven
I shamefully admit that I had my fair share of the Hamburger Helper craze around the same time I was intrigued with the idea of Shake-n-Bake. These meals offered a quick way to get inexpensive meals to the table. Forget the fact that they never delivered a nice serving of vegetables (because apparently you can [...]
And They Say Carbs are Bad for You
How can you blame people who do say pasta is bad for you? You know who I am talking about: the fitness gurus, the annoying celebrities who get paid millions to look the way they do and the models who melt away at the slightest glance of real food. They all tell us to limit [...]
No Mayo Please
Sometimes it necessary to step away and really investigate what you are eating. And although, no one likes to do it willingly, you really do get a sense of what you shouldn’t be putting into your system. Well, on a recent binge of bacon (hey, I had to eat it before it went bad), my [...]
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