Blackened Shrimp with Citrus and Roasted Fennel
It’s been quite a long hiatus from blogging, and I for one am glad it’s over.
Nothing special made me stop blogging, just the overwhelming business of life and work. It’s a good life, but one that for the past year or two has lost the balance between work and private life that I seem to have achieved when I was blogging more frequently.
At any rate, things in general have settled down a bit and I find myself actually having free time again to write. And so the blog is back!
What’s new, you ask?
Well, I am about 30 pounds thinner, that’s one big thing. Nothing magic or amazing, just a food delivery diet that let...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - June 23, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Fish Pasta Rice & Potatoes Uncategorized Chrimp Fennel orange quinoa shallot Source Type: blogs
Take a minute and ask: Is that really grain-free?
Living the Undoctored and Wheat Belly Lifestyles may take a bit of effort, but the results are so worth it. You have to really think before you order your meals. Hidden sources of grains and corn by-products are lurking in some unlikely places. You may have thought that by skipping the bread/sandwich and choosing the soup-n-salad would ensure that your meal was safe. Think again…
Often the seemingly innocent chicken breast sitting on top of your salad was dusted with wheat flour before cooking to help it retain moisture and achieve that golden-brown color. Or the seasoning used contained grain by-products. Or the fish wa...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 20, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune Dr. Davis gluten gluten-free grain grain-free Inflammation undoctored Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Spinach Stuffed Mushrooms
Tired of serving the same old cheese plate and cracker appetizer? Looking for something just as satisfying and crowd pleasing but without the calories or carbs?
Look no further than these delicious, easy to make, healthy spinach stuffed mushrooms.
Eat them with a knife and fork, cut into quarters and you have four incredible mouthfuls. Serve with a bowl of spicy olives – there’s nothing that tastes better than a bite of each in your mouth at the same time.
These mushrooms are so satiating that I’ve served them as a main dish. Add a side salad following a small bowl of soup and you’ve got a light bu...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - March 5, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Appetizers best easy Make-ahead Spinach stuffed mushrooms use bread crumbs vegetarian Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Spices for a Healthy Brain
Your diet plays a crucial role in your mental well being and physical health, as they are intricately connected. Have you ever thought about everyday spices that could give your brain an internal boost and reset from within to function at an optimal level?
Consider adding these 10 spices below to your current diet, or better yet cook with them to improve overall brain health, and help prevent, or at the very least stave off future cognitive decline. These top spices have been studied extensively by world renowned psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen, and is widely discussed in many of his journal publications and books, including ...
Source: World of Psychology - February 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily Waters Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Books Health-related Mental Health and Wellness herbs rosemary Spices Turmeric Source Type: blogs
Ottolenghi ’s Roasted Chicken with Clementines and Arak
One of these days, I’m going to visit Israel, if only to taste in situ the foods that inspire Ottolenghi, whose Jerusalem cookbook has become one of the most used cooking tomes in our household. The hummus recipe alone is worth purchasing his book.
This recipe combines orange and anise flavors with a delightful roasted chicken. Don’t let the use of Arak, a licorice flavored liquor – worry you. The anise flavor is subtle, despite the use of both fennel and fennel seeds – and perfectly balanced by the clementines.
We served it with brown basmati rice and carrots, and I used the leftovers the nex...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - January 18, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Arak Chicken Clementines Jerusalem Ottolenghi Source Type: blogs
Flageolet with Fennel and Feta
I send Mr TBTAM to the market for French Le Pay lentils yesterday, and he returned instead with French flageolet.
It’s partly my fault. After all, he did call to ask before he bought. My mistake was assuming he knew what a lentil was, and instead focusing on making sure that what he was buying was actually imported from France. He did say the word flageolet, and even spelled it out for me. I had no idea what flageolet meant, but it sure sounded French to me, so I approved the purchase.
Only when he got them home did I discover that flageolet are not lentils, but a type of bean. And not just any bean, but a small, b...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - January 17, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Salads flageolet beans Source Type: blogs
What ’ s in the sauce?
Living the Wheat Belly Lifestyle may take a bit of effort, but the results are so worth it. You must think before you order your meals. Hidden sources of grains and corn by-products are lurking in some unlikely places.
You may have thought that by skipping the bread/sandwich and choosing the soup-n-salad would ensure that your meal was safe. Think again…Many commercial “cream” sauces and soups get their creamy texture from starch, not real cream. And that starch often comes from wheat flour or corn starch. In fact, most commercial soup manufacturers literally use countless tons of wheat every year to produce ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 29, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Coconut Flour/Milk Dr. Davis Food choices Grain Free Lifestyle Grains Low-carb diets Weight loss Wheat Belly Wheat Belly Lifestyle Wheat Watch Wheat-Free Lifestyle diabetes gluten Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
How to Cure a Cold
They say there ' s no cure. And " they " may be right, but there are a lot of things that we can do.
Heard from doctors fairly recently (but note: I am not a doctor):Gargle with warm salt water to sooth and treat the throat.Use a neti pot (nasal irrigation) to clear sinuses.Take Claritin (loratadine) and Claritin-D (loratadine with pseudoephedrine) to reduce symptoms.
Other common-sense and folk treatments:Keep extra warm, particularly the chest. Especially avoid getting chilled.Get lots of sleep - morning and afternoon naps if possible. In my opinion this is the best thing we can do.Chicken soup with lots o...
Source: Myeloma Hope - November 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
Where My Brain ’s At–Vol 1, Issue 1: Spoonulas, Hexies, Grunts and Beer
A friend once told me, while I was lamenting about my lack of expertise in anything, I am indeed an expert—at knowing stuff about a lot of things. I tend to forget that I posses that talent and instead follow my tendency toward ADOBSO. This is a weekly collection of the myriad of bright shiny object which have captured my attention. For the record, I am not sponsored or paid to talk about anything on this blog so the opinions are my own and this is stuff I either like or hate. Me, blunt.
What I’m reading: Grunt: The Curious Science of Humas at War by Mary Roach on my Kindle. I love Mary’s snarky sense of hu...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - October 27, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: Where My Brain's At Source Type: blogs
Foraged Delight – The Staghorn Sumac
This is staghorn sumac (rhus thphina), whose gorgeous red fruit berries I first encountered last summer atop High Knob in the Loyalsock. Isn’t it gorgeous?
The branches and berries of the staghorn sumac have a fuzzy feeling like the antlers of a deer (hence the name) and will NOT give you a rash. The stuff that gives you a rash is poison sumac.
Poison sumac has a red trunk. It grows in swamps and standing water, it’s berries are white and hang down, and the leaves look like this.
Got it? Good. Now stop being afraid and go get yourself some staghorn sumac.
What to do with Staghorn Sumac Berries
The sumac f...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - September 18, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Recipes drying sumac making sumac spice Middle Eastern Spice Ottolenghi staghorn za'atar Source Type: blogs
Foods that Nourish, Replenish and Repair
The food we eat serves many purposes. It satisfies a primal need to fuel our bodies and quell hunger. It connects us to family and friends in lovely ways, during the holidays, in social situations and at the nightly dinner table. It encourages us to be creative, to try new things, explore different cultures, and savor interesting tastes. And it comforts us, at least temporarily, when we are lonely, sad, anxious or otherwise spent.
Food has another very important purpose: it cleanses, repairs, replenishes our body at the most basic cellular level. In fact, the latest research from the field of nutrigenomics[1], reve...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Study on Potential Toxicity of E-Cigarette Flavorings Produces Unwarranted Scare
A study published in the journal Tobacco Control this past April has produced an unwarranted scare about the potential toxicity of the flavorings in electronic cigarettes.(See: Tierney PA, et al. Flavour chemicals in electronic cigarette fluids. Tobacco Control. Published online ahead of print on April 15, 2015. DOI: 0.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-052175.)The study used gas chromatography/mass spectrometry to analyze the chemical constituents in e-liquids of various flavors. It appears that 30 different e-liquid flavors were tested. Multiple flavors of two brands of disposable e-cigarettes (Blu and NJOY) were tested along with...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - July 16, 2015 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly safe thickeners
In the Wheat Belly lifestyle, we’ve removed all the standard gravy and sauce thickeners from our kitchen shelves: no wheat flour or cornstarch, despite their widespread use in culinary practices. Even though cornstarch is mostly amylose/amylopectin carbohydrates, there are zein protein and other protein residues that are problematic in a grain-free lifestyle, not to mention the excessive carbs, as well.
But, when looking for alternative ingredients to use as thickeners, it would be silly to replace one problem ingredient with another problem ingredient, like replacing unfiltered cigarettes with low-tar cigarettesR...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 5, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle coconut flour cornstarch dairy grains gravies sauces thickeners Source Type: blogs
Haitian Griot Served with Cuban Black Beans & Rice and Marinated Cucumber Salad
If I haven’t blogged much in the way of new recipes lately, it’s because not much of what we’ve been trying lately has been blog worthy. Oh, of course, it’s been edible. Maybe even tasty. But not worth sharing with the world.
But this dinner? It’s worth shouting about.
In fact, I’ll go on record and say it’s one of the best meals we’ve ever made. And worth every minute of preparation, which is not a lot of time at the stove, but does include an overnight marinade and a couple of hours braising. So save it for a weekend dinner when you can give it the time it deserves to sa...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - March 24, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Salads Vegetarian Cuban black beans & rice Cucumber Salad Haitian Griot Melissa Clarke Source Type: blogs
