Maybe you're looking for sides to go with chicken. Maybe you need side dishes for steak dinner. Unless you've gone full-on carnivore, it's not enough that you have a main dish. You still need low carb sides to make your keto dinner more fun and interesting. It's super easy to come up with keto diet …
Last night I discovered a beautiful way to fuse some elements of Indian cooking with some elements of Japanese cooking for an easy, delectable simmer sauce that's rich with complex flavor. This dish is flexible enough that you can adapt it in countless ways. You might have other vegetables on hand, or you might want …
Easy sweet white miso simmer sauce for low-carb side dishes Read More »
Today in the mail I got one of those slick mini-magazines from my insurance provider. You know, those glossy publications stuffed with breezily written lifestyle advice along with lots of phone numbers and URLs for their various departments and services. Which is useless, because when you need something, you’re just going to call their main number …
Healthy tip for weight-loss success: Do the opposite of the low-fat mainstream advice Read More »
I must have heard about air fryers fifty times before I paid the least bit of attention. I was sure it was a gimmick. A gimmick for people who are afraid to eat fat. A gimmicky electric gadget for producing desiccated, leathery facsimiles of actual fried food. How wrong I was. One day a friend …
This morning I wanted a quick keto breakfast. Something warm and satisfying that I could eat while I worked. Donald had already made a batch of bacon, a family brand called Nueske's that we're lucky enough to buy local here in Wisconsin. He had gotten up earlier than usual, and when my alarm woke me, that …
In the early 1960s, a newly minted cardiologist named Robert Coleman Atkins was feeling poorly. He was depressed. He had packed on 90 pounds over the long, stressful years of college and med school. He tried cutting calories, but he just got tired and hungry, and his waistband wasn't getting any any looser. Once upon …
A couple of years ago, I stayed at a hotel nice enough that there was a cook in the breakfast line, making eggs to order. In fact, he was actually breaking individual eggs, then cooking them just for you. No hotel pans of scrambles here. Want an omelette? No problem. You could ask for anything at all …
You can have whatever you want for breakfast. Is that a keto thing? A low-carb thing? Sure, why not. When you flip around the way you eat, you can seize that opportunity to reinvent the rules of your game.
Breaking news! While working out the best keto low-carb eggnog recipe, I came up with a completely novel secret ingredient to make it creamy, thick, delicious, and golden.
Over millennia, we humans have developed exquisitely creative and nourishing foodways. That's how we managed to populate this wide world. We used our smarts to figure out what's good to eat. We used our very best smarts to figure out how to make whatever was available become good to eat. More recently, we've been using our …
