Tag Archives: processed food

Top 10 Impostor Health Foods

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Head Chef

Impostor health foods: neither tasty nor healthful. Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on Food, Top Tens | Tagged advertising, cheese, cooking, diet, fake food, fat, homemade, processed food, vegetarian, whole foods, whole grain | 2 Comments

Vegetarian chili, aside from being the perfect meal for a cold winter day, is also one of my favorites because it happens magically when I’m nowhere near the kitchen. Yesterday evening I was on the floor of the writing room, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinner, Easy, Lowfat, Meditations on Food, Recipes, Soup | Tagged canned, cheese, chili, fake food, homemade, lowfat, processed food, vegetarian, vegetarian chili, Writing | 2 Comments

Brigadeiros: Brazilian Candy-Making for Klutzes

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Head Chef

I am immensely grateful that in one of his cleaning frenzies, my dad rescued a forgotten artifact from my childhood: a recipe book my mom had begun to create with me when I was in elementary school. We apparently only … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures in Cooking, Dessert, Easy, Party & Holiday, Recipes | Tagged ADHD, Brazil, brigadeiros, chocolate, cooking, dessert, processed food, vegetarian | 2 Comments

Fresh Food

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Head Chef

I saw a commercial last night for a Healthy Choice meal that represents just about everything that is wrong with American culture. The ad begins with Julia Louis-Dreyfus telling her agent with a note of surprise that the Fresh Mixers, … Continue reading →