Normally I find quinoa overpowering in any dish, but it was simply sprinkled throughout the brown rice package in the perfect amount. The rice is seasoned to taste perfection. If you’re eating bachelor style, I wholly recommend this side dish treat.
Category Archives: Foodie Fridays
Foodie Fridays: Twin Brook Creamery
The best cow’s milk I’ve ever had and I always wanted my milk to come in a bottle! Check out more about the Twin Brook Creamery here
Foodie Friday: Mushroom Burger
Using Portabella Mushrooms as buns (lightly toasted in the oven) you can make a great low carb/gluten free burger and you can even add bacon and avocado!
Foodie Fridays: Turkey Bacon at Costco
For nutritional content: https://www.jennieo.com/products/80-Extra-Lean-Turkey-Bacon
Such delicious bacon, you can hardly tell it’s not pork! This is a worthwhile purchase.
Foodie Fridays: Bees in the Burbs Honey Comb
Happy Fourth of July Everybody!
Local honey comb is great for combating your allergies and tastes great too! Just a little spoon a day keeps the sneezes away.
Foodie Fridays: Loaded Angry Orchard (Hard Cider)
I’m not an avid drinker of beer and slide towards the hard cider end of things. I love some good hard apple cider and Washington is full o f Angry Orchard. I saw this bad boy at Costco and decided to give it a try. It came in around $9 and around 10% alcohol by volume and boy could I taste it. This was so far from the lovely sweet hint of alcohol taste of the regular Angry Orchards that I was deeply disappointed. The flavor was more like cough syrup than any hard cider I have ever tasted. My opinion? Stay away from high percent ABV beers/ciders if you’re in it for the taste.
Foodie Fridays: Local Peanut Sauce Review
What I liked: It is homemade, natural peanut sauce. Take note of the ingredients because there is no added sugar or preservatives. It was sweet and tangy like traditional peanut sauce but made from scratch.
What I didn’t like: The taste of the cumin was a bit too strong.
Where you can buy it: Redmond Saturday Market
What I ate it with: Chicken, brown rice, and broccoli cooked in the peanut sauce. It is also good on bread or crackers.
Foodie Fridays: Rhubarb time of year again!
Remember last year how wonderful our rhubarb was growing?
This year the rhubarb is coming in strong and delicious. We’ve even made a $16 profit selling it to the local fruit/veggie stand (I love those guys).
Rhubarb is a resilient plant that grows without any help therefore it’s a gardener’s dream, unless you don’t want it then I guess it would be a nightmare plant.
This year I’ve gotten into making cake breads with the rhubarb and even muffins!
I’ve got the fancy muffins. The recipe I used was based loosely on the recipe for bread cake (upper left corner) from my Zojirushi bread maker. The mash in the tupperware is my attempt at ‘frosting’ where I combined the leftover mashed strawberries/rhubarb with powdered sugar and some coconut flour for thickening.
Loose rhubarb muffin recipe:
– 1 stick of butter (1/2 cup)
– 2 large eggs
– 1.5 cups of rhubarb (mashed in my Vitamix)
– 3 tsp of baking powder
– 1 tsp of vanilla
– 2 cups of flour (I used wheat flower)
– 1 cup of sweetener such as sugar/honey (I didn’t put any in these cupcakes this time)
Foodie Fridays: The Top New Year’s Resolution
I bet you can guess that it is to lose weight.
I believe that the body has an ideal weight and when you are in that ideal weight zone, it is easier to stay at that weight. I also believe there is a comfort weight level your body can reach above that ideal weight zone and it is really difficult to get under that comfort weight level.
Most everyone is obsessed with their weight for one because it is an easily attained statistic. Step on a scale and boom. There it is. But there are other measures of health. Such as body fat percentage. According to the internet, my source of almost all knowledge these days, says that a fit percentage of fat content is 21-24% for women and 14-17% for men. An average percentage of fat content is 25-31% for women and 18-24% for men. Where do you fit?
Foodie Fridays: Portion Control and the Nation of Over eaters
I think a common problem is that we eat too much…
I have an expectation of quantity in my meals built in from growing up in a nation of large portions, over-eaters, and finishing what’s on your plate. Slowly, as a culture, we’ve been moving away from this but the damage has been done. I want to eat and I want it to be a lot. Every time.
I also have an expectation that the food should fulfill qualities of a stereotypical meal when in fact not every time I eat do I need to represent carbs or sugar or meat. But I still think eating without any of these constitutes an incomplete meal that I must make up for in subsequent meals.
My appetite expectations don’t meet my realistic amount of hunger and instead of allowing this disparity to exist, I reconcile the difference by consuming more than I want or need to. And then I do that two more times every day. So many extra calories!
We must first change our eating attitudes and then amend our eating behaviors.
Rachel Author Barnard 