Grilling on Pink Himalayan Salt Slabs (For amazing taste and nutrition) To celebrate the hopefully soon completion of the outdoor gas grills right outside my door, on a HUGE mezzanine area in front of my modest studio apartment in Seattle (the culinary Gods smile upon me!!), I just ordered my Pink Himalayan Salt Slabs, which [...]

Sweet potatoes are kinda like this nutritional powerhouse that seems to just be sitting out there unutilized, except, as in my family, on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The good thing about making stuffed sweet potatoes is that I can go vegetarian when I want, and I can stuff with some quality protein when I want. I [...]

Vegetarian Kabobs with Olive Oil Marinade I wanted to pull this recipe from a piece I wrote in my "Wanderlust Food Diaries" section called Caribbean Style Vegetarian with India Arie in St Lucia. I'm into quality poultry and meats, but even us fish and poultry lovers have to be prepared this summer, because of the [...]

I remember when I worked in Connecticut a few years back, and trying to win the "affections" of a lady in Hartford, I was considering sending her flowers, since I heard from a friend of hers she loved roses, but when it came to flowers, her girl said she liked something original, not the flowers [...]

Not sure if this is technically iced tea or lemonade, but whatever………………. I remember growing up, at family picnics, one of my mother's sisters used to make the most incredible Peach Lemonade. She was from Georgia, and I remember her with dozens of sliced peaches on the picnic table, huge lemons, that was such a [...]

Perfect Grilled Chicken every time: The "Slash" and Marinade Method Pictured above, is my "health nut" friends, is my end goal. My dream is to have a cooking show in the ultimate outdoor kitchen, loving the sun, and spreading the gospel that healthy eating blows away traditional eating in every category including taste. I'm starting [...]

I had promised myself in 2012 to get Green Tea into my daily regiment due to it's amazing health and healing properties, which go all the way to the level of cancer prevention. For example, I make a big batch of green tea, let it cool, and put it in a half gallon glass container, [...]

Brazilian Beer Marinated Chicken I remember growing up, observing my father in the kitchen, when Sunday was his one day to take over the kitchen and cook, that he was always pouring beer on his creations. I found it "interesting", to say the least. Well, like father, like son. I don't drink that much beer [...]

I get the feeling from the comments from my readers make about my recipes, that I am winning the war against those who don't think that healthy eating can be delicious eating. Now its time to go on the offensive, hit at the jugular vein of the enemy, and launch and attack on their most [...]

Is your fish sticking or falling apart on the grill or skillet? Try grilling or frying fish on lemons!!!!! (Why didn't I think of that?) I know this seems like such a trivial subject to write a whole blogpost on, but running across this little "tidbit" of information opened up fish "Fish Grilling World" to [...]

The quick comment, as I make with all my bread recipes, is that I'm not a huge bread eater anymore, but I still love occasional fresh baked quality bread, and I utilize papaya enzymes to digest gluten. Just thinking "outside the box" to address the gluten free, grain free movements. Anyhoo, tricking friends into eating [...]

Although I eat tons of veggies, I'm not a vegetarian, and doubt if I ever will be. I do however, like to prepare some "non-meat treats", and just to keep in practice with some non meat recipes, which comes into play if, for example, you have vegetarian friends, or are throwing a party and want [...]

I'm not a super big coffee drinker, on most days at work I drink my Maca Coffee, which is much better than java to me. I do still love regular coffee on some days however, especially on those "lazy Sundays" where the world slows down, and I actually have an hour or two to live [...]

Sriracha is a type of hot sauce, named after the coastal city of Si Racha, in the Chonburi Province of Eastern Thailand. You can replace the Sriracha with you favorite "spicy stuff" if you want. I love chicken thighs, mainly since they are so juicy, and I am not afraid of fat, or shall I [...]

As I keep saying in this blog, I don't eat a whole heck of a lot of grains, or dairy, except perhaps in a weekly slice of quality Whole Foods Pizza, and whenever I do consume them, I utilize papaya enzymes to digest gluten, meat and cheese. Thinking out of the box allows me to [...]

I never had to force myself to get off refined sugar and artificial sweeteners, once I started consuming natural sweeteners, my taste buds started to reject excessive sugar…..it happened very naturally for me, with no effort, an no need to fight sugar cravings.  I love to have a loaf of this type of healthy/delicious pastry [...]

Growing up in the brutal Chicago winters, often times coming home looking like Dr. Zhivago on bad day (photo right, LOL), I never thought until I got to Oregon and Washington State, that grass and trees can still show their greenery in the dead of winter. It totally suits me So, I invented a new [...]

I've been into this lamb thing lately, especially since getting a "vote of confidence" from Bernando Lapallo, the 111 year old whom  I wrote about in a blogpost, never been sick a day in his life and made the comment in an interview "……a little lamb is OK". Well, that's good enough for me. I'm [...]

I literally hated tomatoes growing, up but I can't get enough of fresh organic tomatoes now. And I have learned about tomatoes being rich in the prostate cancer fighting antioxidant Lycopene, so I get super health benefits along with super "taste bud" benefits. But I don't get into the science of it in my recipe [...]

I realized as much as I love salmon (no exaggeration, in any given month over the past 5 years, I eat it no less than 26 out of 30 days),  just realized I don't have any salmon recipes on the blog. This recipe is to help with my "withdrawal symptoms" from football season, when I [...]

…..One of my "Cast Iron Pot" style treats, eat a little now, eat a little later. Anyone who knows my blog knows that I swear by the inner seed of the Apricot for cancer prevention, which contains B17, a nutrient abundant in cultures and races that had low cancer rates. However, the apricot flesh has [...]

On a day when I woke up too late to make my typical healthy delicious lunch, I ran across these Turkey Collard Wraps at PCC Natural Market in suburban Seattle Washington, PCC being a "Ma and Pa" version of Whole Foods. Treats like Turkey Collard Wraps, is merely another "arrow in my quiver" so to [...]

When cooking for others, I love those meals that look like a "Grand Production", but in reality are very easy and very straight forward, with very simple quality healthy ingredients. So far as fish is concerned, I don't get overly concerned about mercury levels in fish, mainly because my main fish I eat almost daily [...]

I don't eat a whole heck of a lot of grains, a slice of Whole Foods pizza here and there, and I try to think out of the box with gluten , as in using papaya enzymes to digest gluten. However, I do still love breads, and although I love my Coconut Banana Bread, in [...]