Archive for October 2009
Lazy Ass Leftovers
News: Today, Free the Animal surpassed 50,000 visits and 90,000 page views in a month for the first time ever. Story to follow on Sunday or Monday, plus, a substantial post I’m working up about a research doctor in New Zealand who still doesn’t get it. jimmy moore has his hands in both of those...…Read More
What’s Really Important About This Blog
I got an email from a new reader the other day. …30 years old, MD in anesthesia and critical care in Italy, fed up with being 40 pounds overweight. I’ve always been the big girl, since I was little, and now that I’m a grown up i would really LOVE to shed the pounds at last. Tried it...…Read More
Thai Masaman Beef Curry
Now that it’s getting colder, a lot more hearty dishes like stew, chili, and curry are going to be hitting the blog. Rumor has it that I’ll be up for another chicken mole in my style come Saturday night. Now for tonight’s dish: masaman curry (sometimes spelled "massaman"). Thai Masaman Beef Curry The typical recipe...…Read More
Is It Really A “National Emergency,” Mr. President?
If it is, then how come your own daughters — the young being at highest risk for contracting the H1N1 virus, according to the epidemiology so far — haven’t been vaccinated? It’s "not available to them?" Come now, Barack. You don’t really expect anyone to swallow the notion that two doses of H1N1 vaccine can’t...…Read More
“I Know It’s Just a Memory; Some Memories Last Forever”
A Ponderable, For Sure While I contemplate and pick at a couple of other posts for a day, or 2, 3… out, here’s some early, very Deep Dish rock for you. It’s Rush, 1976 live, Lakeside Park. The video is primitive but gets better. The band is quite unpolished at this point. Geddy’s vocals are...…Read More
Low & Slow Tri-Tip Roast au jus & Potato Purée
This isn’t appropriate for those on strict, low-carb regimes. I have found, however, that so long as it’s pretty real food (TM), I have no problem with occasional ingestion of potatoes cooked sensibly: do your fries in lard, coconut oil, or tallow and add lots of butter and cream to mashes & purées. Here’s the prep,...…Read More
Extra Extra: Margarine Only Healthful for 10 Years! (…then it kills you)
Can this study get any better? Yes it can. The investigators broke down the data into two halves: the first ten years, and the second ten. In the first ten years, there was no significant association between margarine intake and heart attack incidence. In the second ten, the group eating the most margarine had 77%...…Read More
Drs. Michael & Mary Dan Eades, Chef Heston Blumenthal, Author Tim Ferriss & the SousVide Supreme
What serendipity yesterday morning… As I got up around 7am, poured a cup of coffee and sat down with my iPhone, I discovered an email from Dr. Mike Eades inviting me to an event at the California Culinary Academy up in San Francisco that very day. It was to introduce chefs and the media to...…Read More
Curing the Sugar Addiction
I’m going to need reader help with this one. An email. I was very impressed to read your path. I am currently 360 lbs and I am 5’10. I know it is decision time or I have to pack my bags and leave the planet. I do have the book primal blueprint but I find...…Read More
Texas Style Chili
Two substantive posts on line for tomorrow and Tuesday or Wednesday. In the meantime, here’s Friday night’s dish. It was a 2.5 lb. cross rib roast; trimmed, cubed, and then browned pretty well in the cooking pot in a big tbsp of lard and another of bacon drippings — medium heat. Once browned, I added...…Read More
Meatballs in Blue Cheese Sauce
Nope, I can’t get enough of this sauce (the 2nd one), and neither will you if you try it. Any sort of beef will do, and it’s easy as can be. Here’s a kinda "recipe" for a pound of ground beef, which in my case was La Cense grassfed. But first, here’s what it ends...…Read More
The Vegetarian Myth Revisited
Aside from the recent abysmal nature of my blogging, my neighborhood dog-walking friend Kara emails: You are on the cutting edge. Indeed, I am. She forwards a great review of The Vegetarian Myth (reviewed here, here, here, and here) in an email newsletter from Fourfold Healing. The vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith Very occasionally powerful,...…Read More
My Article at Passionate Fitness
A couple of weeks ago I posted this on fatty liver reversal. Around the same time I was asked to submit an article to Passionate Fitness and submitted the same one after checking with Rafi to make sure that would be OK. The time for submitting articles is now past, and now it’s time to...…Read More
Chicken & Tarragon Sauce; Steak & Blue Cheese Sauce
I’m pressed for time, with a court trial (business related; contract dispute) in which my company is the defendant begins tomorrow morning. We have an excellent case — otherwise I’d have easily settled long time ago — but you can never predict an outcome. So, I’m…preoccupied. Perhaps I’ll briefly tell you about it later, but...…Read More
More Links & Quick Hits
With pressing business issues throughout the week I might not have a lot to post about. But, for now, here’s some of the more interesting things I’ve seen whilst clearing my head at the cabin this weekend. ~ In the American Journal of Epidemiology, which cholesterol level is related to the lowest mortality in a...…Read More
Links & Quick Hits
~ Dr. Eades has been up to some good beyond his typical authoritative blog postings and books on sound weight loss and high nutrition. Now, he’s developed a kitchen appliance for best cooking your meats & vegetables: Low & Slow. It’s called sous vide, ("under or less than empty," i.e., vacuum). Here’s his post describing...…Read More
Steak Ftites
…And, how looks can be deceiving. Before we get to the Steak Frites, how does this look? Poached Cod in Coconut Milk & Relish Not bad, right? And I’ve done this before. …Well, upon looking at that link, I guess I must have been trying to get by cheap on effort this time. It showed,...…Read More
How Mean Should I Be?
An email crashes in. Hi there, I work with Silk on one of their latest new products called Heart Health. As part of their new line of wellness products, Heart Health was specifically designed to reduce cholesterol. In fact, A recent study found that people who enjoyed three servings of Silk Heart Health per day...…Read More
Shorter FTC: “You’re Too Stupid”
Relax. You have been protected. No longer must you languish in uncertainty about whether I or anyone else who reviews a book, a film, or food is doing so for professional reasons with a reputation to build and maintain, or just for the goodies. The Federal Trade Commission will try to regulate blogging for the...…Read More
Calling All Health & Fitness Bloggers
I’ve long wanted to dramatically increase the number of blogs and other good resources on the blogroll, but I really hate blogrolls that are dozens and dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of links. However, I’ve solved that by installing a widget that takes my whole list and gives a random slice of however many links I...…Read More