Pumpkin Pie
I love a good pumpkin pie. By good I don’t mean a commercially baked pie sold by the thousands. I mean a good pie baked from scratch in your kitchen. Using a fresh pumpkin right out of the garden or from the local farmers …
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Breads and Spreads
When I grew up we were really poor. Not welfare poor but my parents struggled and we lived out of town. Not close to a store and stores were all closed on Sunday’s. Times have changed. My mom made homemade bread every week. …
Tex Mex Taste of Summer
I love Salsa. I am from Arizona and love salsa’s. Many of my friends are from Mexico or South America and over the years they have taught me many things about how different salsas can be and how creative one can be in …
Rediscover Sauerkraut
Some foods bring back so many memories. When I was growing up we ate things like canned spinach, liver and onions, and sauerkraut. And we all loved it. It was part of life. So many of the food we used to eat are making …
Another Look at Sourdough
I love sourdough bread. Actually I love bread. All bread, but I have found that when it comes to breads my body loves sourdough and I don’t get the side effects that most breads give me. Things like inflammation, rashes, congestion, and fatigue. I …
How to Fix your Food
What do I mean when I say fix your food. Often times we taste our food and it can be off. Not enough flavor, too sweet, too spicy, too rich, or no flavor at all. My number one rule of cooking is to always …
Healthy Treats~Date Bars
I love treats. I like to have things that I can munch on late at night. The problem is that my go to is ice cream. I love ice cream in milk. Chocolate ice cream with whole milk is my comfort food. I …
How to Have a Successful Cookie Dough Party
We all love cookie dough. Children adore it and every one I know at one time or another has had thier finger in the cookie dough bowl. There is just something magical about cookie dough. It is a make you feel good food that brings …
Summer Beverages
I love beverages. I think just as important as the food is, you need a beverage to go with the meal. Think about it. Social drinking has been part of our culture for a long time. From coca cola to lemonade we enjoy a beverage …
WholeGrian31 Energy Bars
Chocolate Date Bars In my quest for health and wellness the biggest challenge is finding something to appease the sweet tooth. That is a huge challenge and most protein bars are filled with junk or they are expensive and not really that great. …
Sprouted Whole Grain Pancakes
I am a pancake eater. I love them. But I have to say that I cannot eat white flour pancakes after having enjoyed whole grain cakes for so long. They have so much flavor and you don’t feel like you ate bricks when you are …
WholeGrain 31/LifeStyle Jump Start to Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness can mean many things. For me it means our spirits are in line with our bodies. That means that we are in harmony and we have learned to listen to what our bodies need and want to stay healthy. So often we …
The Perfect Reuben Dressing
I love a good sandwich. With a great rye bread, nothing compares to a fresh made Rueben. I remember like it was yesterday the very first time I had a Rueben Sandwich. I was a busboy at a local coffee shop in Show Low Arizona. …
Cooling Summer Soups Part 2
It’s cherry season for a while. We get them now in the stores and by summers end they will be ripening on our fruit trees in many parts of the country. I love cherries. I love just eating them. Having a cherry pitter is …
Cool Summer Soups Part 1
I love making soups. Especially in the summer. Cooling summer soups are amazing and just the perfect thing to cool off with when we don’t really want something heavy and we want to prepare it quickly In my younger days I work in Private Clubs. …
Savory Onion Rings
I love a great onion ring. But all to often they are greasy and flavorless. I am talking about the batter. And most often the batter is made with poor quality flour. Onion rings are the perfect companion food to a great burger. They are …
Real Tortillas
Fresh sourdough buttermilk tortillas I love a wonderful tortilla. Nothing like a great flour tortilla, baked on a cast iron griddle, served warm. I have made many tortillas and consumed my fair share. Moving to Utah has been difficult in the fast that good tortillas …
Handling Change
We are living in changing times. I have been in the Food and Beverage arena for most of my life and I have enjoyed watching how it changes and flows. Like a river, some times it ebbs along and other times it’s dangerous and hard …
The Perfect Hot Cereal
As a young boy we lived on hot cereals. Pretty much cracked wheat or germaide is unheard of in todays cold cereal kingdom, but when I was a boy cracked cereal was a staple. The funny part is that now it is easier then ever …
Pressure Cooking/Instant Pot Quick Meals Cooking Formula
(Pasta Meals are fast and wonderful in Electric Pressure Cookers) Pressure Cooking is one of my favorite ways to cook. Today’s pressure cookers/instant pots are fast and easy, making creating wonderful meal a cinch. Foods come out tasting better then ever and with minimal results. …