Jan 262010
Do you know where your meat comes from?

If you train with us at CFChampions you soon could.  This past Friday I (along with Alyx and Mia) drove up to Brenham to visit Yonder Way Farm.  It was easy to find, a beautiful farm and a beautiful day.  It’s what you would expect in the land of Blue Bell ice cream and happy cows.  Yonder Way Farm doesn’t make that claim but their animals looked pretty happy doing what pigs and cows and chickens are supposed to do.  They were all out grazing or foraging or just plain enjoying the sunshine.  I could have pulled up a seat [...]

Jul 042009
I love that my kids like to cook!

Mia has a sweet tooth.  A really big sweet tooth!  Thank goodness!  Because of this sweet tooth she is willing to attempt recipes out of the ‘healthy’ cookbooks and websites after I’ve looked around and liked the pictures enough to ask if she’ll make them.  Alyx likes being in the kitchen as well between the two of them the recipes actually get tried.  Mia has made Almond Flour Pancakes out of desperation because we tossed the Bisquick mix a while back.  (I personally think the hunt for sugary foods is a big motivator for her to spend the night with [...]

Jul 012009

I picked up a cookbook a couple weeks back, trying to find something in hand for recipes.  I don’t care what ‘they’ say…I’ll always prefer an actual book to the electronic version.  This is part of the appeal of us making one of our own up at the gym.  I like books of all kinds but especially love cookbooks.  I can’t remember how I ended up being by myself but there I was so off I went to Barnes & Noble to try and find something to specifically work with almond flour.  Would you believe that out of [...]