Planning one vegetarian dinner a week is a simple way to a healthier diet. Unfortunately, we scientists confused y’all in the 70′s by obsessing that vegetarian meals needed to contain all 26 “essential amino acids.” Cross-referencing tables of ingredients is not conducive to whipping up meals for hungry families. Moreover, [...]

It’s Friday, one day from being up to our shoulder pads in football both on the sidelines of my son’s rec league and on the sofa yelling bad and good things as Defensive Coach of remote control for a Big Ten alma mater. Further, the teenager will be sequestered with a laptop, [...]

“You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon. If it weren’t for bacon, we wouldn’t even know what a water chestnut is,” stand-up guy, Jim Gaffigan said as part of his 3 minute tribute to the greasy, tasty, banned-from-diets porky [...]

I admit, sausages make me snicker like frat boy.  ”I miss Jack”- who can name the movie?

We love food reinvention at crunchtime.  We start with a great summer meal: grilled chicken apple sausages, asian slaw, corn on the cob, and watermelon.
I buy the links at Whole Foods where they grind their [...]

In my never-ending, and sometimes painful, drive to get more vegetables in my diet, I subscribe to Farm Fresh to You, a produce delivery service from local growers. It’s also a good thing to eat local and seasonal food – tastes better, better for the environment and the [...]