Since we are all about Salads, we like to sort of circle-back, once in a while, to review stuff that’s relevant, useful and informative. We think that this article covers all the bases, relative to Organic Food. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s the middle of May, and the temperature here in Silicon Valley is likely to surpass one hundred degrees, today. With that in mind, I’m all about refreshing, light and tasty. And that’s why this Citrus Salad Recipe may be just what the doctor ordered, even if you are in a part of the world that isn’t dealing with a heat wave.
Did I mention the part about Broccoli being ridiculously healthy food? It’s a cruciferous veggie, which means, um:
cruciferous |kroōˈsifərəs|adjectiveBotany of, relating to, or denoting plants of the cabbage family ( Brassicaceae, formerly Cruciferae).ORIGIN mid 19thcent.: from modern LatinCruciferae (plural), from Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’ + -fer ‘bearing’(because the flowers have four equal petals arranged crosswise), + -ous.
I throw that our there, because the chicks dig it when I show off my vast knowledge. Anyway, have a look at this Broccoli Salad Recipe.
Okay, so yesterday, I got a big ol’ head full of steam over Broccoli. And I’m not quite emotionally prepared to move on, just yet. So lets talk more about Broccoli stuff. Here is a video that’s not really a Salad recipe, but I like the looks of it. So there. Take a peek.
You had me at ninety-seven. But 101 is fabulous. Much of this stuff is salad specific, and several of the items on this list are more than a little bit interesting. Our recommendation? We don’t have one, as of yet. Check it out.
So, there we were, minding our own business, when the next thing you know, we are looking at what appears to be some really ultra-scientific egghead type stuff about, um, Ranch Dressing. And that kind of freaked us out, a little bit.
See, we were thinking that this NutritionData website would offer a ton of swell information specific to salad dressings, condiments, etc. Instead, we got the Human Genome project, or some kind of NASA Asteroid Charting Project, or something like that.
Note to the team over at NutritionData: What are you guys, fresh out of MIT? Slow down! It’s only salad dressing, for Pete’s sake. I bet you guys are just a barrel of laughs on a date. I mean, hey, Chicks dig the Euclidean Geometry, am I right?
We have a plan. A good one. Mostly, we think that it’s a good one because we’ve never really had a plan before, and so we don’t have much in the way of yardsticks with which we can measure. But we’ll cover that matter another time.
Our plan is simple: We are reducing the amount of meat that we consume. There you have it. That’s our plan. Read the rest of this entry »
There are two types of people in the world: those that really, really like shopping at Whole Foods, and those who hate those shoppers. We “get” the whole duality of this; we are both types, at the same time. Anyway, Columnist Mark Morford nails it, in this piece.