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Archive for November, 2007

Pocket Pies

These make a great Saturday morning breakfast. It has taken me about 5-6 tries to get all the kinks ironed out of these, but I’m pretty happy with this recipe now.

1 1/3 cups whole wheat pastry grain (or about 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour)
6 tablespoons rapadura or sucanat
6 tablespoons butter
2/3-3/4 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon baking [...]

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The Thanksgiving leftovers were devoured by my visiting family. I had not planned meals for most of this week depending on the fact that we generally have enough leftovers to last us for a week. What to do? I remembered that Shari likes a white bean chicken chili she’s had at Ruby Tuesday’s and [...]

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Moderation

Some people tell me I’m too extreme and should use moderation.
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me [...]

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I Want Results

Sometimes people ask me what benefits I get from my “extreme” lifestyle. Here is some evidence that this lifestyle really works.
All my life I have been very susceptible to any contagious disease that gets near me. If the guy in the cubicle next to me gets a cold, so do I. If my kids get [...]

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Chicken and Rice

This is a quick and easy thing to do with leftover chicken or turkey.

1 cup brown rice (I use short grain brown)
2 cups chicken stock
1 tsp salt

In a covered saucepan, simmer the rice in the chicken stock with salt until all the water has been absorbed.

2T butter or coconut oil
2T unbleached flour
about 2/3c coconut milk [...]

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