Wow Chow Cooking

While hashing through my feed reader for the first time in AGES lately, I read with great interest a blurb about a book called Cereal Killers on Val’s cooking blog. (I also found some very cool ipod reviews, iPhone deals, and cell phone plans to research, but that’s for another story!). Cereal Killers provides answers [...]

I love eating salad in the summer, when everything is so fresh. Doesn’t this look so good? Salads are not just a quick weight loss tool– they are SO nutritious because they incorporate so many varieties of raw foods. Cooked food has enzymes in it, which your body sees as toxic. Your body must work [...]

My daughter makes all the smoothies in the house, I cannot take credit for any of them (I only do credit for office furniture, yukyukyuk). I like her strawberry smoothies (yum!) but strawberries can be pretty expensive. Right now, it’s watermelon season! So she tried a watermelon smoothie, and OH MY WORD this is incredible. [...]

My local news online had this as “big news” today, but it’s actually “old news”: Beets are very, very good for you. Duh! Haven’t our moms been telling us that for, like, FOREVER?! I chuckle that scientists do all these expensive “studies” to “discover” things when people — especially moms– have known it to be [...]

I can’t believe how expensive those “instant” smoothies are, in the freezer section. Holy cow. I think they are $3 a package?! We got a blender, a very nice one, from a dear friend. My daughter has taken it upon herself to create smoothies (mostly because I have been busy reviewing electronics and renovating the [...]

I’ve been hearing about something called the Raw Food Diet lately. As I’ve gotten older, I absolutely LOVE fresh vegetables and fruits (especially vegetables). You know, I almost never ate fresh vegetables or fruits growing up. I wonder if this is why my family members have certain health problems. I remember eating a lot of [...]