Revelry Reverie

So I’ve been on hiatus. But I have a really good excuse! As you probably recall, I was pregnant with twins. Well, I’ve now had the twins. They’re 5 months old. I’ve been very busy. I’ve barely cooked, much less made any new recipes. Fortunately, the twins will begin on solids soon. I plan on…

Experts at the Harvard School of Public Health recently had a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on the link between red meat consumption and type 2 diabetes. It’s the largest study of its kind. You can read the abstract here: http://www.ajcn.org/content/early/2011/08/10/ajcn.111.018978.abstract?sid=c3e3247b-e031-48e8-bbb1-8a1fd1c877c9. You can read a review of the study here: http://news.yahoo.com/red-meat-boosts-diabetes-risk-us-study-161043220.html.…

We all know that gelatin is made from animal by-products (bones and whatnot) – now they’re making gelatin out of human genes (see the link below for the story from Fast Company). It looks like, so far, it’s being used for stabilizers for vaccines and perhaps in pill capsules. Regardless, I find it off-putting. http://www.fastcompany.com/1767744/coming-soon-human-derived-gelatin-in-your-marshmallows

A question I get frequently concerns how I can manage to eat enough protein while pregnant without eating meat. My answer is that I eat dairy (milk, eggs, cottage cheese) and tofu. This tends to leave people skeptical that I don’t understand where protein comes from – oh but I do. And here’s an article…

I came across an article on scary additives that I thought I’d share. The link will be at the bottom. Note that the “found in” sections are not exhaustive lists – read your labels. Here’s the top 10 scariest additives, as according to the editors of Men’s Health. Olestra (found in Lay’s Light chips and…

This isn’t rocket science. You have to marinate them. And you have to start with some good caps. Shriveled caps don’t work for me – they’re tough. I don’t mean fully dried ones, I mean ones that are old enough to shrivel. Skip those and go for some good, fresh, fleshy caps. The shriveled ones…

One day I ate a tiger, and then a tall giraffe. And when I ate an elephant, it really made me laugh! And then my belly looked like this: My apologies for the graininess of the image. iPhone, low light, the usual excuses. Of course, I’m just kidding. I didn’t eat any of those things…

This past weekend, Bob and I took my parents to Canandaigua for a night. Our plan was to attend a wine and food pairing class at the New York Wine and Culinary Center on Saturday, spend the night at Belhurst Castle, and return home on Sunday. That’s more or less how the weekend went, but…

For New Year’s, Bob and I went to Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario for 5 days. “But Zandy, why on earth would you go somewhere colder on vacation?” Glad you asked. Because of the surrounding geography, there is a small area that has a very temperate climate. Due to the surrounding lakes and prevailing winds, the town…