Navy Bean And Black Bean Burgers With Smashed Butternut Squash Recipe Of The Week

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Navy beans are not something I cook with frequently and since I am an honest blogger that word should be never.  I picked up some dry navy beans a few months ago and used them when making a dish that included parsnips and mofongo thinking that I could make a black and white dish.  When [...]

Food Network Is Making America Fat?

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Food Network debuted back in 1993 and has been a staple of my life ever since.  I can remember the first show I watched featuring Emeril Lagasse in a white kitchen with just about nothing else but himself.  It was so disjointed and not the greatest episode but like a bad car wreck I could [...]

Herbs: How You Can Kick Up The Taste Of Your Food (Guest Post)

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Herbs You Should Add to Your Diet You already know that the foods you eat can have a profound effect not only on your health, but also on your performance as an endurance athlete. The things you add to your foods — the condiments, the seasonings, all those little things that add flavor and variety [...]

Confetti Salad Recipe: #EnduranceFoodies Guest Post

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Confetti Salad was something I had not heard of until Courtenay joined the #EnduranceFoodies movement.  When she asked if she could be a part of it I was intrigued by the idea of what somebody does with simple ingredients while keeping it tasty.  I am a big believer that time in the kitchen should be [...]

Arsenic In Our Rice. What Do We Do?

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Arsenic was found in our rice based on a study from Consumer Reports, but I will be 100% honest about the topic of arsenic and rice.  I had no clue about this arsenic issue until I made a comment on the No Meat Athlete blog regarding snacks.  Every night I have rice cakes from Lundberg [...]

Spring Is Here: #EnduranceFoodies Blog Carnival For May

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Spring is here, or so we are being told by the calendar but the weather on the day I made this dish started at 40* and was around 59* in mid-day.  Spring had sprung for a few days but we seemed to have skipped the entire season, plus Summer and jumped into Fall.  Of course [...]

Chinese Takeout? Nope, Homemade Millet Stir Fry Recipe

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Chinese takeout was a staple of my diet when I was a kid.  I can remember my mother going to the bullet proof (that is what we called it because they had bullet proof windows and passed food and cash through a slot) and coming home with fried rice, ribs with that sweet and sour [...]

Incredible Hulk Vegan Creamy Pasta Recipe

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Incredible Hulk……remember him?  At this point The Incredible Hulk has been reduced to a supporting role in the superhero movies but back when I was a kid The Incredible Hulk, which starred Lou Ferrigno, was a show not to be missed.  I mean who doesn’t go into fits of rage when people make you mad [...]

Vegan And Gluten-Free Banana Cranberry Muffins Recipe

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Banana Cranberry muffins and its recipe came about because Karen and I had both purchased bananas and as bananas do they started to turn an ugly shade of brown.  Mind you that a banana is at its peak of perfection when there are dark spots on it these bananas had essentially turned black/brown and were [...]

Asparagus Risotto With Lemon Zest: Recipe Of The Week:

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Asparagus Risotto was voted as the recipe of the week on my Instagram feed and I couldn’t have been happier to share this recipe with you.  As you know, maybe not if you live anywhere there has been snow fall lately, we are in spring and so it is time to dust off your favorite spring [...]