Has Beyond Beef finally created the perfect plant-based ground beef? This was my first time using Beyond Beef, but I already think it is clearly superior to the LightLife Gimme Lean Beef product that I used in my Mini Meat Loaves recipe in Fool a Carnivore: Meaty Main Dishes . . . Minus the ...
Health and Nutrition
The Impossible Burger is too meaty for me
Last week in Orlando, I had my very first opportunity to try The Impossible Burger. My verdict? The Impossible Burger tastes too much like meat for me. (Hence the confused look of abject horror on my face!) The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat's Beyond Burger are actually getting quite a ...
The pasta recipe shared 2.8 million times – with 45% of the calories
Kudos to Julia’s Album for its success in having the most repinned pasta recipe on Pinterest with her Chicken and Bacon Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes in Garlic Cream Sauce. 2.8 million repins is positively mind-boggling . . . but so was the 1028 calorie cost per serving. I knew I had to ...
Eliminating the “V” Words
According to an article in Food & Wine Magazine, we should stop labeling food as vegan or vegetarian to get more folks to eat it. The source interview in Food Navigator with Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director of Good Food Institute, cited a UK study that eliminating a separate ...
Saying Farewell to one of my Carnivores
This is a different kind of post for me. No food photos and no recipes today. Just a love letter to my dear son, Nicholas Pace. Nick left home yesterday on Columbus Day to move to Tampa. He’s got great prospects, and I know he’ll have a bright future in a new city. Nick is 24, smart, ...
Just in time for the 4th – a truly meaty vegan burger!
Vegans and vegetarians rejoice! You finally have a plant-based burger that can compete with the "real meat" burgers at your family's Fourth of July bash. The cool folks at Beyond Meat have taken the Beast Burger up several notches with The Beyond Burger. I was thrilled to find it yesterday ...
How to Cube a Mango in Three Easy Steps
My marketing and social media savvy son, Nick, tells me that I need to do shorter posts more regularly. Since I usually blog only once I've perfected a recipe after making it multiple times, I'm departing from that course and will be taking Nick's advice today. Despite the plethora of internet ...
Can Eating More Plants Help You Live Longer?
According to a recent article in Time, one of the three things you can do to extend your life is to eat way more plants. We all like finding articles that support what we believe, so I was pleased to read that ". . . the healthiest diet is the one in which you eat a lot of plants." With that ...
