Wal-mart is making headlines today with a big press blitz claiming they’ll deliver healthier foods at a lower price.  Call me skeptical, but that seems to be the opposite of what is actually happening in their stores. A few years ago, they got proactive about checking for gluten in their generic brand products.  However, in […]

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I don’t cook a whole lot of sea food, but I am always looking to try new things.  So after a fairly successful attempt at salmon, I headed back to the sea food counter at the local grocery.  The man behind the case mentioned some shark steaks, and they looked so lean and meaty that […]

There’s a lot of confusion about gluten free diets and meals, and some might be asking:  What is a “typical” gluten free meal? Well first of all, just because one can’t eat wheat doesn’t mean there aren’t still thousands of other ingredients and combinations available!  In that sense, it could be almost impossible to declare […]

When you’re eating gluten free and you want to try various sauces & flavors, you’ve basically got two choices.  You can either research every brand and their production methods, or you can skip the risks and hassle by making it fresh at home.  While cooking everything is definitely time consuming, it is also a chance […]

A lot of cooks and kitchen enthusiasts swear by cast iron frying pans – and now I understand why. From the hand-me-downs I got when moving out to the replacement pans I eventually picked up, everything I could find seemed to be that typical “non-stick” alloy that is actually pretty bad about sticking.  What’s even […]