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My Healthy Protein Muffins

My wife has a need for a good, quick, high protein & high fiber breakfast. She is in medical school and has to get up really early most days to go to the hospital and so she doesn’t have time anymore to eat her normal breakfast of either oatmeal or Egg Beaters. Her default [...]

How to Make a Healthy Cheeseburger

No, I did not mistype the title of this post. I am going to tell you how to make a healthy cheeseburger (or hamburger, if you’re a weirdo who doesn’t like cheese).
Most burgers will receive the bulk of their calories from two locations, the bun, and the meat. First let us focus on the [...]

Know your Spuds

Mmmm, man food, meat and potatoes. And yet this is a nutritional food blog, so can I still do man food? I know can do healthy meat (but that is another post) but can I do healthy potatoes?
Yes, yes I can.
But first, a primer on the humble spud.
Potato Primer
Potatoes are swollen stems, or tubers, [...]

How to Make Carmelized Onions

Onions, like some other vegetables such as carrots, have a lot of sugar in them. This isn’t to mean they’re sweet like a candy bar, it isn’t the same type of sugar. These are complex sugars.
When you take a vegetable with complex sugars and expose it to heat those sugars carmelize. This makes them taste [...]

How to Make Gravy with a Roux

Gravy is great, and it doesn’t have to be bad for you. Here is a quick and easy way to make relatively healthy gravy.
Start with your meat drippings, this can be from any type of meat, and make sure you run it through a fat seperator to get rid of the fat and keep the [...]

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