Happy 2nd Birthday, Blog!
June 19, 2013
Today is the two year mark for my blog. I celebrated with some dog walking at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley (I volunteer weekly), a salmon burger and romaine salad, rowing at the gym, and then some blueberries, strawberries, and mango with yogurt and All Bran (which really was quite good). Here’s to another year!
Of grams and calories…
June 17, 2013
I made an interesting and embarrassing discovery yesterday. Worse, because it uncovered a mistake that I have made more than once. Somehow I had gotten it into my head that a gram of protein is 7 calories, when it is in fact 4 calories. The same as carbohydrates. (Alcohol is 7 calories per gram). Needless to say I thought it was INCREDIBLY easy to get 40% of my calories from protein even without meat. That’s because I wasn’t. My 100 grams of protein is much closer to 23% of my calories from fat, not 40% as I had reported in my post Body Fat Loss Contest – Weeks 1 & 2. That is all.
A Bunch of Over-processed Food Pictures (the pictures are over-processed, not the food) that Amuse Me
January 4, 2013
As I’m cleaning up photos for blog posts, sometimes I get side tracked and start playing around with the various filters and processing tools in my (free) software package. So here are my favorite over-processed photos:
Overly Vibrant Red Cabbage, Fennel and Carrot Salad Ingredients
Close-Up of Red Cabbage, Fennel and Carrot Salad
This photograph reminds me of those Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks in the 70s *
*check out said cookbooks’ pictures
Heirloom Beans, Carrots, Celery, Onion, and Garlic
Pretty Heirloom Beans (with which I seem to have developed quite a fascination)
Luminescent Bat Cookies
Extremely Yellow Beets
Gorgeous, Shiny Chocolates from Piece, Love, and Chocolate – Boulder
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 22, 2012
Too busy eating for a long post today! The best Thanksgiving dinners are the ones where everyone splits up the dishes and then brings them to add to the feast. My mom made turkey, stuffing and gravy, my dad the rolls, my brother the green bean casserole, my mother-in-law the cranberry salad, pumpkin pie, and cherry tart, and I made the chipotle mashed sweet potoatoes and cabbage, fennel and carrot salad with coconut lime dressing. YUM!
Thanksgiving Table
Clockwise from the top: Cabbage, Fennel, and Carrot Salad with Coconut Lime Dressing, Cranberry Salad, Turkey with Gravy, Stuffing, Green Bean Casserole, Chipotle Mashed Potatoes (Not Pictured: Homemade Dinner Roll)
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