Sunday, February 12, 2012

Saturday, February 11, 2012

The New Potatoe Chip

Last week my Mom calls and raves about Kale chips. I laughed because it's KALE. As in the green, leafy vegetable nobody eats unless they've celebrated their 80th birthday. So I tried this recipe and they were aaa-mazing. Is it like eating kettle chips? Not really. It's a little more refreshing and high in many vitamins.  

Kale Chips recipe

Ingrediants:

Bunches of kale
Olive oil
cracked sea salt

 1. Kale has very thick stems that are not tasty. Cut those out. Then chop leaves into bite-sized little bits.

 2. Brush and coat with olive oil. Add your sea salt.

 3. Lay bits on cookie tray in one layer spread.

 4. Cook at 250 degrees for 20-25 minutes. When you take them out they will have darkened in color and shrunk. Leave standing for 2-3 minutes. The finished product will be crunchy, salty, and low calorie. Gorge away.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Diets are Bananas

I have to come to a food resolution. In our society, everyone thinks they're an expert on loosing weight. We have the All Grapefruit Diet, the Cabbage Diet, the Atkins Diet, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, The Daniel Fast, Low carb High Protein, Gluten-Free, blahblahblah. And yet, we're all still chubby. I have tried a variety of different methods to cutting the pounds, including some sketchy pills that may have been legal meth. However, I am still not waifish and fragile looking like a Victoria Secret Model in Barbados.

What's the resolution? Screw diets. Simply stated, I am going to find healthy foods I like to eat. You know what health food I don't like? Bananas. I HATE bananas. I don't like the taste or the texture, but for years I have tried to eat bananas because they're suppose to be healthy for you. Yeah, that's awesome except I find them totally disgusting. There are many healthy food items out there. I just have to find ones that are 100% for me.

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