Taste Like Green French Fries?

Heading into 2012 means shedding a few holiday pounds that Mike and I accumulated on the “experiment” (see his blog) we undertook. So for the next several weeks we will be trudging down the nutritional holy road of near-abstinence from carbs and total abstinence from that carbohydrate gateway drug, alcohol. It’s only day 5 and…

Prosciutto-Wrapped Watermelon

Fix of the Week columnist, Sam Edelman’s, recipe for Prosciutto-Wrapped Watermelon in today’s Santa Barbara NewsPress (viewing may require registration) made my mouth water. I can’t wait to try this refreshing (and pretty low carb) summer bite. To quote the author, Watermelon is the perfect fruit to enjoy on a hot summer day, as it…

A Grain of Salt

An article appeared in our local bugle today that caught my eye. The piece, written the AP’s Michele Kayal centers around Mark Bitterman’s, new book Salted which extols the glories of the natural salts of the Earth and which I just received from my darling husband for Christmas. The reason it caught my eye is…

Pumpkin’s Back!

It was with great relief that I read this headline in today’s paper: Canned Pumpkin Shortage is Over …and just in time for the holidays! Pumpkin is such a wonderfully low carb vegetable–fewer than 10 grams per cup of mashed, cooked flesh–that it really puts a crimp in your pie not to be able to…

A Sea of Irish Cider

As many of you may know, Mike and I have been on a two-week jaunt through the Emerald Isle occasioned by his participation in a golf tournament in County Cork. A visit to Ireland means, for him, plenty of Jameson and Guinness (both of which he enjoyed in ample measure) and for me (really for…