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Posted in Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on Mar 19th, 2013
Over the past few years, I’ve ordered all of my meat from I order my meat from a local farmer. He not only sells beef, but poultry, pork, lamb and goat. I tend to have two orders, a spring order which includes beef and pork and a winter order which includes beef and a whole […]
Posted in Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on Mar 5th, 2013
One of the frustrations of doing a gluten-free and low carbohydrate way of eating is sometimes you just want something hot and heavy and cheesy. I haven’t had lasagna in many years, but I knew this summer that I wanted to experiment with making it out of my preserved foods. So when I had a […]
Posted in Fitness, Gluten Free, Personal Health, Personal Story on Sep 25th, 2012
This month has been an exercise in frustration. Within a day or two of writing my last post, I was down to 179 pounds! Wow, 21 pounds gone and I was out of the 180’s. Life was good I thought. But then I ended up gaining about 3 pounds in the month and when I […]
Posted in Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on Sep 18th, 2012
While many people equate a gluten-free way of eating with low-carbohydrate, they are not the same. For many people, including myself, eating foods that are gluten-free is a medical necessity. We need to eat foods free of contamination by wheat, barley and rye to avoid being sickened. Low-carbohydrate on the other hand is a choice […]
Posted in Cooking, Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on May 22nd, 2012
So there I was at Whole Foods, doing a little bit of grocery shopping. I saw a package of egg salad at the deli counter and thought to myself that it would be nice to make some. I always have pastured eggs at home, but I don’t usually have mayonnaise. I know it’s a staple […]
Posted in Gluten Free, Ingredients on Apr 10th, 2012
Posted in Cooking, Gluten Free, Ingredients, Seasonal on Feb 21st, 2012
Celery Root or Celeriac has got to be one of the ugliest vegetables out there. Its bumpy, with lots of crevices for dirt to hide in. While celeriac is a root vegetable, it is not the actual root of the celery we eat today. Instead it is derived from a species of wild celery […]
Posted in Gluten Free on Feb 14th, 2012
This is the fourth in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. Probably the hardest issue when dealing with no longer being able to eat gluten is the issue of cross-contamination. Cross-contamination basically comes down to tiny pieces of gluten which have been cooked, or prepared on a […]
Posted in Cooking, Gluten Free, Ingredients on Jan 17th, 2012
In most cooking, stocks are an integral part of many recipes. From soups, to stews to sauce reductions, many cookbooks (and restaurants) rely on them. In fact, one of the first tasks in a restaurant is making stock. Especially in winter, I want a constant supply at my finger tips. In the past (near past […]
Posted in Gluten Free, Ingredients on Jan 3rd, 2012
This is the third in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. One of the first steps in living a gluten free life is identifying the foods in your house that you no longer can eat. If you are single or are in a household which will […]
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