EBL: kale

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Friday, February 3, 2017

We should probably focus on getting Neil Gorsuch confirmed first, but just because it makes the Left completely unhinged to even contemplate this...

Andrew Malcolm is rather cruel to our Lefty/Progressive pals.

American Power Blog: Going Nuclear?

Lem's Place: Please don't let Justice Ginsburg die...

Instapundit: Liberals will not like how this revenge plot ends, Trump helps progressives find religion, Majority of people approve Gorsuch for Supreme Court, Best conservative fortnight ever, death rates rising for 30 year olds

Wombat: American Power: Gorsuch Nomination Battle May Go Nuclear and Megan McArdle: Liberals Will Not Like How This Revenge Plot Ends

Sunday, January 1, 2017

New Years Hoppin' Johns

Here's a recipe, but the black eye peas are simple to do and there are a lot of variations.

May you have good luck, health and wealth this New Years.

EBL: 2017 is here

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Madeleine Shaw, Ella Woodward, Tess Ward and Jasmine and Melissa Helmsley "Clean Food" Bloggers Rule 5

Here are the "clean food" bloggers:

There’s 25-year-old Madeleine Shaw, a ‘holistic nutritional health coach’ who believes in ‘enlivening the hottest, happiest and healthiest you’ and offers a ‘chia seed egg substitute’ to use in recipes. Ella Woodward, 23, bounced back from a rare illness after adopting a new plant-based diet and entices her followers with sweet potato brownies. Tess Ward, 23, has written a cookbook called The Naked Diet which replaces the conventional chapter headings — ‘Breakfasts’, ‘Starters’, ‘Mains’, ‘Puddings’ —with ‘Pure’, ‘Raw’, ‘Stripped’, ‘Clean’ and ‘Detox’. And there’s the Hemsley sisters, Jasmine and Melissa, whose bestselling cookbook The Art of Eating Well contains no recipes with grains, gluten or refined sugar.

Okay attractive twenty something women promoting food that will presumably make you look and be like them (I get the marketing secret of their success). There are a lot of trendy cults out there, but promoting eating fresh vegetables and unprocessed food and avoiding refined sugar is generally not a bad thing (Ms. Paltrow's obsessions may border on the cultish, but I eat a lot of kale myself).

Use common sense when dealing with new age claims (too much kale, especially raw can be bad for you). Of course, such simple living (unless you have a big organic garden) can be a bit pricey if you don't shop around--but if you are going to enjoy fresh veggies now is the perfect season to do so (the best tasting kale, however, is generally when the season starts cooling down).

Madeleine Shaw

Ella Woodward

Tess Ward

Jasmine and Melissa Helmsley

EBL: Everything Bad Is Gluten, Kale Superbowl Salad, Paleo Blogger Glenn Reynolds meets Paleo Diet Author Nell Stephenson, and Kale Rule 5

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Super Bowl Healthy Recipe: Kale Salad with Blue Cheese and Steak

Make a kale salad (here is a a good recipe):

You obviously do not have to follow this exactly, but it is a good starting point...

What I would do to alter it is add an anchovy filet or two (chopped) to the oil and lemon dressing (making it more of a classic caesar dressing). Some Worcestershire sauce can be used if you do not have anchovies.

I would then crumble over the top blue cheese. For those of you that eat my bovine brethren, I hear that thinly sliced rare flank or skirt steak is exceptionally good over top.

EBL: Kale Rule 5

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Kale Rule 5

Kale. It's not delicious. It's not poison.

Actually it can be delicious if prepared right (I prefer Tuscan kale sautéd lightly with garlic, olive oil, and finished with lemon zest and sea salt). Why kale is considered a super food. I am not buying into the whole new agey crap, but generally colorful veggies are good for you.

There are a lot of different kinds of kale. It is good for you, but you can over do it.