Do you have a cold? Dry skin? Indigestion? Cook this!

Winter is coming, and although Panera, Chipotle, Legal Seafoods and Town Pizza serve the same “foods” throughout the year, we need to make adjustments to feel good and keep our health strong.

First eat fewer raw salads. If you must have salad this time of year, please blanch or press more hearty vegetables, and/or use a hot dressing.… Read the rest

Snacking Better

If you don’t bring a healthy lunch to work, then you might have to eat out.

Most restaurants and takeout joints pack their food with tons of salt, sugar, chemicals and animal products, which not only weaken your immunity and promote obesity, heart disease, cancer, etc.,… Read the rest

Does The World Work?

Sometimes it seems that everything is broken.

In my world, it’s the little things that get me. The kids up the street don’t show up on time to walk with my daughter (so I get to walk her, that’s good), the street sweeper is preceded by the leaf-blower who is spewing gas fumes on kids walking to school, people have not signed up for my cooking class and it may be cancelled, and now my men’s group has scheduled a competing event.… Read the rest

Oil Crisis and Healthcare Crisis Related!

Who do you know that “cannot eat fried food?”

In the old days, we enjoyed fried clams, onion rings, chicken, french fries, fried dough etc. with only minor issues.

Now, we get diarrhea just thinking about it. Why is that? Many reasons really, from portion size, to lack of fiber, to poor chewing.… Read the rest

Pickles! Pickles! Pickles!

Went to Zaftig’s in Framingham for the first time on Sunday evening, with my wife.

I grew up in a Jewish family, so delicatessen food appeals to me. Nowadays, however, I choose not to eat certain foods, especially in the massive quantities we see in a typical deli.… Read the rest

Healthier Pancakes

My only regret is I forgot to take pictures of these beauties:

  • -Chocolate chip w/ maple syrup, using egg replacer, soy milk, agave nectar and white & rice flours
  • -Banana chip coconut with cherry syrup, same mix as above. Both were cooked with safflower oil

Delicious!! … Read the rest

Improving Institutional Cooking

I had the opportunity to visit a cutting edge rehab facility in Metrowest this week, and was very impressed with their level of organization, cleanliness, and technology for rehabbing patients.

Unfortunately, like most others, their menu leaves much to be desired.… Read the rest