Author Archives: John

Roasting Garlic Bittman Style

I’ve started to really like the method of roasting garlic that Mark Bittman writes about in Food Matters. Instead of slicing the end off of a whole head of garlic, (or a few whole heads of garlic), drizzling the head(s) with olive oil, and roasting, he suggests separating the garlic into cloves and roasting those […]

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Lobster Supper

They’re selling live lobster for $4.88 a pound right now so last night we ate some. Lobster, grocery-store sushi, and guacamole – maybe not the most traditional menu but really good.

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Starting the Harvest

When I planted my garden at the beginning of April I wasn’t completely sure that there wouldn’t be some winter weather that would kill it off. There have been a couple of small snowfalls but nothing with the kind of cold that kills off cold weather vegetables, and this week we ate our first salad, […]

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Roast Garlic & Fresh Herb Vinaigrette

I put together a vinaigrette the other day and thought I would share an approximation of the recipe. Roast Garlic & Fresh Herb Vinaigrette (All quantities are approximate) 1/3 cupWhite wine vinegar 1/6 cupCanola Oil 1/2 teaspoon Normal mustard that you would put on a hot dog 2 tablespoons Chopped fresh chives 3 sprigs Thyme […]

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Week Nineteen Roundup

I seem to be getting worse and worse about getting my roundups posted on time, but here’s the roundup for last week, (ending this past Sunday). The waist size, (measured Tuesday morning, not the customary Monday morning), was 40 3/4 inches. This is an increase of 1/4 of an inch. On the budgetary front we […]

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Yeast-Leavened Rye Bread

We’ve been wanting to reduce the amount of wheat in our diet. Actually, we would like to eliminate it for a while and see how that goes, but we also like bread. Enter Rye Flour. I’ve been having pretty decent results making bread so far, but before I embarked on my rye loaf I did […]

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Week Seventeen and Eighteen Roundup

I haven’t had a chance to write about what’s been happening but it hasn’t been that exciting on the food front. I have been keeping track of the vital stats though. After 17 weeks I had a waist size of 41 1/2 inches, and we spent $256.21 on food in the 17th week, and after […]

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Lazy Leftover Morning Burritos

We have some leftovers, and I turned some leftovers, plus an egg into a morning burrito. We still have a ton of the filling from my Chipotle Sloppy Joes the other day, (now simply referred to as “fire” because it’s gaining heat as it ages), and some chopped cilantro, some tortillas, (“whole wheat” – according […]

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Almost No Meat Chipotle Sloppy Joes

Our fridge has been filling up with leftovers from other meals, a bit of tomato sauce, some rice cooked with chicken drippings, sliced tomato, chopped shallots, and chicken breast trimmings. Since we had chicken burgers the other day, we had some of what the grocery store calls “whole wheat” hamburger buns. With all of this, […]

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Week Sixteen Roundup

Here we are at the end of week sixteen. Starting with the numbers, my waist is down to 40 3/4 inches this week, that’s down 3/4 of an inch from last week, which is pretty awesome. It’s looking like I might break into the 30s soon, (in more ways that one…). On the budgetary side […]

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  • What is Choices That Matter?

    I'm a guy named John, and I do most of the writing around here. I went from a really active lifestyle to a really inactive lifestyle very quickly and my body is noticing. On top of that I'm worried about what's happening to our planet, so, I'm trying to do something about it.

    For Christmas I received the book Food Matters, which I found very interesting and inspired me to start changing. Check out my first post for the beginning of the story.