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You might have noticed a few new things around here lately. I've slowly been pushing out a redesign and sort of "re-focus" of the website. The homepage now features more individual recipes that we've been testing with larger photos and a more detailed recipe guide. There will be a new featured recipe every day. Or, when I remember to update it...

Hi. Remember me? I know, it's been a while. I knew when we started this blog that it was going to be a balancing act to keep up regular postings. I'll have months where I have the time to work in a post here and there and then other times... bam! My freetime is gone. Hence, the lack of posts lately. To further complicate things around here we just had our home and offices painted. Everything...

Normally you'd probably be expecting to see another edition of Foodie Friday in this post. Well, I've decided it doesn't need to be every Friday. I mean, let's face it, trying recipes from my own website is time consuming enough. And as much as I enjoy the food blogs I visit, I have to put my regular work first. There will definitely be more Foodie Friday blogs featured - just not each...

Yesterday I wrote about growing my own alfalfa sprouts for a recipe. Now you will probably think I was crazy to even bother with it since the amount of sprouts I needed was basically for a garnish. That's right, that "gardening" project was taken on simply to adorn the recipe we're featuring...

Over the last few years there have been several warnings about consuming/purchasing sprouts (alfalfa, radish, and other types) due to salmonella, e. coli and listeria outbreaks. As a result, many grocery stores no longer carry this yummy veggie. Of course, I ended up with a recipe I wanted to test that called for alfalfa sprouts. I knew my regular store...

Have you cooked with spaghetti squash? It's one of my favorite types of squash - not just because it's a tasty squash, but because it makes a fairly acceptable substitute for spaghetti pasta if you are following a low carb diet. Now, you aren't going to fool anyone into thinking it's real pasta. But for those of us who have sacrificed those...

Jicama is one of those veggies that for most of my cooking "career" I hadn't paid much attention to until a few years ago. They never were very appealing to me - all brown and earthy looking. They look like a big, dusty, squat potato.    Fortunately my job allows me to try new ingredients so when I finally got around to trying...

Would you believe that as a kid I never went on an Easter egg hunt? Not once. Every year for Easter we'd go to my Grandma's farm, not really for Easter per se, but rather because we had time off school so it was a good time to travel. There was always a big dinner for Easter, with various other relatives joining us. And candy. Lots of candy. I was...

I used to make a lot of things from scratch. Homemade salad dressings, seasoning blends, pasta from scratch - you know, all the things that you can also buy premade, but that are better made at home. What's interesting is that when I used to make things like those from scratch was when I was working a full time job, going to graduate school full...

The "genre" of blog we reviewed for this week has been a type that people have been asking for since we started Foodie Friday. I figured it was time to get it on the schedule! That's right folks, your low carb blog is here! I found "Your Lighter Side" when I was searching to see if a soy-free, sugar-free chocolate existed. Frankly, I...