What Makes a Cheesecake? A serious question
I was trying to decide between making a cheesecake or making a pie for Thanksgiving.
cubegourmet
11/30/2008
shopping
healthy, homemade
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Tag: healthy
The intersection of healthy & frugal
Before I made a commitment to bring my own food into work, no matter how nasty the work fridge is, I’d get 2, sometimes 3, meals a day @the office. I know it was a terrible habit, but I felt @the time that I just didn’t have the time to cook anything for myself. I [...]
- cubegourmet
- 04/20/2008
- technique
- frugal, healthy, lunch
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Getting more fruits & veggies in your office diet
I’ve said it before, the office I work in is a carb minefield. Not just sweets people bring in, but multiple delis (the DC kind of deli, which wouldn’t last two weeks in New York because of the slow service and bland food), bagel and coffee shops. The fruit and vegetable selection in these places [...]
Evil office sweets
I’ve worked in offices where there’s been a jar of candy lying around. But the office where I’m working now has collectively brought office sweets to the extreme. There is a “12 Sweets of Christmas” where people bring some kind of sweet. What puts this tradition over the top is that the sweets are put [...]
- cubegourmet
- 03/12/2008
- healthy
- healthy, junk food, rant, sweets
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Food marketers say the darndest things
It’s Saturday, which means I’m looking @grocery coupons and flyers to see what’s on sale. The more I look, the angrier I get. In the wake of massive ground beef and spinach recalls as well as an epidemic of obesity, food marketers are trying to put a spin for their clients: the concept that the [...]
Make your own freaking breakfast – and just as fast
I get annoyed that things like lowfat yogurt and instant oatmeal are touted as “healthy”. Ok, they’re not Cap’n Crunch or steak & eggs, but those little yogurts and little packets of oatmeal have buttloads of sugar in them. In fact, some of those yogurts (and yogurt shakes) have almost 300 calories in a 6 [...]
The plight of the Localvore in DC
I just read an article in today’s Washington Post food section about how people are basically becoming their own food inspectors, not just reading labels but researching online etc. where food comes from. I can relate to this, as I get frustrated when I see evidence (like @Whole Foods) that healthy food seems to [...]
The wonders of leftover salad
I had a large bag of fake crabmeat (one of my favorites) and had to use it up. I ended up making a crab salad, with a little lemon juice, mayo and relish as usual, but I threw in raw broccoli (cut into tiny pieces) for the crunch and some wasabi for some heat. I [...]
Freaking Tasty lo-cal breakfast @work
Fortunately there is a Giant Food across the street from my office. By accident I discovered Canadian Bacon. I was going to go for some breakfast sausage but the CB had more bang (as in protein, less fat) than the sausage, plus it was a little cheaper. I mixed that in with my microwaved scrambled [...]
- cubegourmet
- 01/12/2008
- recipe
- bacon, breakfast, eggs, healthy
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