Charcuterie: …from chair ‘flesh’ and cuit ‘cooked’) is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products such as bacon, ham, sausage, terrines, galantines, pâtés, and confit, primarily from pork. Charcuterie is part of the garde manger chef‘s repertoire. Originally intended as a way to preserve meats before the advent of refrigeration, they are prepared [...]
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So this is what I chowed-down on Sunday evening, following a rather long day spent in the fixie saddle. What you see here is a 1 lb, applewood smoked ham steak, from my good friends at Greene County North Carolina’s Rainbow Meadow Farms. You can’t really tell from the photo, but that good-tastin’ bad boy [...]
Oh yeah, I’ll take Ceviche anytime…so why the hell not for breakfast? Now this dish might be a little fruit-heavy for some of my more fructose-avoiding friends, but really, the amount of fruit per serving here is not all that much. And, too, we’re talking whole fruit here, not the bereft-of-fiber, liver-hammering (and insulin spiking) [...]
So here are the greens from the beets that I made on Wednesday night, making an appearance alongside Thursday night’s totally awesome, locally/pasture-raised cut of smoked pork. Damn fine eats, I gotta say. The greens were sautéed with onions in a liberal amount of coconut oil, then splashed with a bit of coconut vinegar, salt [...]
OK, so I’m much more creative in the gym than in the kitchen, but I don’t exactly starve, either. Most times I don’t plan my meals so much as I throw them together at the last minute; maintaining a strict Paleo household saves me from doing something (eating something) stupid. I guess my point with [...]
First up, the guacamole, ham and cheese omelet. Nothing special here, except for the use of duck eggs — if you can get your hands on these things, by all means do so! Big, beautiful yokes — and so tasty! The photos below are pre and post fold; free-range ham steak strips, your favorite guacamole [...]
No more than a single iron skillet and a few minutes of prep time for these two. Grass-fed eye of chuck, butternut squash and cauliflower mix, free-range pork sausage, roasted free-range chicken quarters and a little sweet potato. Good meals, and plenty of leftovers to boot. By the way, you’ll notice that there’s very little [...]
No Dip Session is the Same… …Or, for that matter, is any selected movement within an exercise session ever the same; there are just way too many variables at play — and that, in and of itself, is a good thing, serving to keep the trainee from becoming both mentally and physically stagnant. It does, [...]
Being creative with the ol’ leftovers is another important piece to maintaining Paleo sanctity. I live by leftovers, and yeah, sometimes the combinations can seem a little odd. Go figure, as I’m just a little odd as well. I think everyone would do well, though, to bust free from the old “that food is [...]
Came home from my Austin trip to an empty freezer, so I stopped off at the store after the following day’s work and cruised by the meat counter to see what was on sale. This is think-on-the-fly meal making, 101, with lesson #1 being that of damage control: not gonna find grass-fed, free-range, loved-and-hugged-on animal [...]
The Rocky Mount YMCA — hey, it’s the place to be, especially at the ass-crack of dawn! Today we have another workout from the Iron MetCon bag o’ tricks. Here’s what went down: barbell thrusters: 135 x 7, 7; 145 x 6, 6, 5 weighted, regular grip pull-ups: 45 x 7, 7, 7, 7, 6+ [...]
The Paleo diet is such a sacrifice, right? I mean, damn, what’s there to eat? Well, here’s yet another meal I had to suffer through — some pay-off for spending a tough hour of intervals in the fixie saddle yesterday evening, huh? That’s bacon and avocado on the side. In the free-range egg scramble are [...]
Here’s the deal: if you fail to rotate through a number of different exercise variations, and choose, instead, to continually hammer-away at a few specific exercises — the bench, squat and deadlift are, to a great detriment, rarely rotated out of a “serious” trainee’s program — you will eventually stagnate, regress and/or tumble into an [...]
…Unless, of course, your father happens to be Dan John, Louie Simmons…or, heh… Keith Norris Actually, this little gem went down yesterday morning (4/27/10). A very busy day — complete with a dash out to the RDU airport to pick up Meesus TTP, among other things — prevented me from posting this in a more [...]
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” – Socrates Crock pot meals may, to the culinary artist, boarder on the unimaginative, but they sure are easy as all hell to throw together — and they’re not too bad in the taste department, either. And hey, for those of us who’d rather [...]
