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Salmon Baked in Cream and Herbs
January 28, 2010 By 26 Comments
Swimming a pool of fresh cream and seasoned with fragrant herbs, baked salmon makes for a satisfying and deeply nourishing supper. Simple food is often the best food. Indeed, good food needn’t be complicated. When you rely on wholesome ingredients of the best quality you can reasonably afford, the simplest of preparations will illuminate their [...]
Eat Your Beef & Butter: CLA, Disease and Diet
September 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A healthy dietary fat, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) was discovered fairly recently; however research into its potential benefits to human health are extensive. CLA is a natural trans-fatty acid that shows strong promise in inhibiting cancer, reducing the risk of heart disease and fighting inflammation. (Learn more about CLA in this post: CLA: The [...]
Ghee: A Wholesome Fat
August 4, 2009 By 6 Comments
We don’t fear fat in my household. Indeed, olive oil, coconut oil, tallow and butter make regular appearances in our kitchen, but there’s an under-appreciated wholesome fat: ghee. Ghee is pure butterfat in its truest sense. Like many traditional foods, ghee is virtually ubiquitous in cultures that raised cattle for milk. [...]
10 Reasons NOT to Give Up Red Meat
April 7, 2009 By 55 Comments
1. Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) Found in the meat and milk of grass-fed ruminants, like cows, Conjugated Linoleic Acid or CLA is a potent nutrient. Researchers are just beginning to understand the mechanisms behind the potent and positive health effects traditional peoples have enjoyed since the days of hunting and gathering. CLA is known [...]
Fats for Cooking & Fats to Eat Uncooked
April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Fats contribute a great deal to food and cooking, but not every fat is suitable for every purpose. Just as not every fat is suitable for cooking, neither is every oil available on your supermarket shelves suitable for a nutritious and healthy diet. Certain fats such as beef tallow and coconut oil have [...]
Fat Soluble Vitamins: Vitamins A, D, E & K
April 1, 2009 By 16 Comments
Fat Soluble Vitamins Fat soluble vitamins are critical to health and wellness–particularly reproductive health and wellness. Unfortunately, adequate intake of fat soluble vitamins is sorely lacking among modern peoples–especially by comparison to traditional societies. Average intake of fat soluble vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and vitamin K is inadequate at best [...]
Classic Hollandaise Sauce
January 18, 2009 By 5 Comments
I’m trying to serve more sauces as they can truly enhance a meal. This sauce–classic hollandaise–is one that is making it to our table more and more frequently. Rich with butter and egg yolks, the sauce is dense with wholesome fats and micronutrients. Make sure to use quality ingredients like eggs from [...]
CLA: The Good Trans-fat
January 6, 2009 By 5 Comments
You’ve doubtlessly heard nutritionists, doctors, medical professionals, alternative health practicioners and virtually everyone else (including me on this post: Butter vs. Margarine and here: Trans Fats & Colon Cancer) rail against trans-fatty acids and their inclusion in the modern diet, but did you know that there’s actually naturally occurring trans-fatty acids? These trans-fats, unlike [...]
Classic Meatloaf
September 27, 2008 By 10 Comments
It may not be a pretty dish, but it’s classic American fare: meatloaf. Rich in calories and fat, it’s often the bane of low-fat gurus, but when made with proper, natural ingredients it can be both richly nutritive and flavorful. Use grass-finished beef, as it’s rich in vitamin A, CLA, omega-3 fatty acids and [...]
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