Disclaimer I am not a doctor. I am not a nutritionist. I am not a dietician. I am not a tax-preparer, a lawyer, a scientist, a phlebotomist, a bassoonist, a balloonist or a cop.
If you need medical or nutritional advice, please seek it out from a qualified professional. Because that's not me -- I am simply a curious and opinionated woman who loves butter.
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Passover will soon be upon us, and for many Passover means brisket, think what ham is to Easter. Brisket is one of the cornerstones of Jewish cooking — right up there with matzoh ball soup and whitefish.
It also happens to be a delicious, easy meal that anyone can include in their repertoire. The brisket is a wide, flat cut of beef from the breast or chest.
Ingredients:
One brisket (get a big one so you’ll have leftovers — it just gets more and more tender)
Onion or two
Garlic clove
Tomato paste
Beef stock . . .
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Now, I love broccoli. I eat it a lot. I like it raw. I like it steamed with butter and lemon. I like it roasted with garlic.
So this is no disrespect to broccoli when I question the claim made by some that it has more protein that meat. I read the following sentence last night:
“Now, which food has more protein — broccoli or steak? You were wrong if you thought steak.”
Really? I then read: ”Steak has only 5.4 grams of protein per 100 calories and broccoli has 11.2 grams, almost . . .
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I have a love/hate relationship with Whole Foods and a recent move on their part is squeezing the love out.
They are officially pushing a low-fat, plant-based diet in their stores. It’s called: Health Starts Here. and the principles are the food you eat should be:
Plant-based
Whole Foods
Low-fat
Nutrient Dense
That last part is funny, because most of the really nutrient-dense foods are neither plant based nor low-fat, but animal based and loaded with lots of saturated fat. Think sardines, marbled steak, eggs.
Now I have always enjoyed shopping at Whole Foods, . . .
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The other night, John Durant, whose website is not up yet, but has garnered some fame from a recent New York Times article entitled “The New Age Caveman and the City“ was on the Colbert Report.
Durant spoke about the caveman or paleo diet, which consists of eating how our hunter-gatherer ancestors did before the agricultural revolution. He’s hardcore — not only doesn’t he eat anything that wasn’t around a million years ago (i.e. no dairy, no grain, no sugar) he doesn’t wear shoes and . . .
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Guiding principles: We should strive to produce & eat food that is:
Organic
Humanely raised (animals on pasture, not in factories)
Grown locally when possible
Whole and unrefined (real maple syrup instead of high-fructose corn syrup)
Processed as little as possible (raw milk instead of pasteurized and homogenized)
Nutrient-dense (enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and probiotics)
Free of additives and preservatives
Free of synthetic and chemical ingredients
Not genetically modified
Traditionally produced and prepared
Myth Buster Myth: Saturated fat (animal fat) is bad for you.
Truth: Saturated fats are necessary for health. It's polyunsaturated fats (most vegetable oils) and hydrogenated fats that cause disease.
Myth: Fat makes you fat.
Truth: Sugar makes you fat -- whether it comes in the form of table sugar, grains or starches.
Quote of the week: I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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