Eating fish whole: Sardines
Different parts of a fish have different types of nutrients that are important for our health; this includes bones and organ…
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Another kind of meatza: Ham, salami and cheese
A few years ago I wrote about a meatza made with lean ground beef and bison ( ). This post is about another kind of meatza…
Beef heart
I have posted here before about the nutrition value of beef liver, nature’s “super-multivitamin”. I have even speculated t…
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the …
Dried meat: Homemade beef jerky
You can dry many types of meat, including beef, pork, goat, deer, and even some types of seafood, such as mussels. Drying …
How to make white rice nutritious
One of the problems often pointed out about rice, and particularly about white rice, is that its nutrition content is fairly…
Ground meat treats: Beef and bison meatza
At the time of this writing, there was no Wikipedia article for the term “meatza”, which surprised me a bit given the number…
Ground meat treats: Zucchini and onion meatloaf
A cousin of the meatball ( ), the meatloaf is a traditional German dish. The recipe below is for a meal that feeds 4-8 peopl…
Liver and meatballs separated by a wall of sweet potatoes
A commenter wrote here some time ago that she liked to eat rice because rice can be easily used to separate food items on a …
Beef meatballs, with no spaghetti
There are pizza restaurants, whose specialty is pizza, even though they usually have a few side dishes. Not healthy enough? …
Pressure-cooked meat: Top sirloin
Pressure cooking relies on physics to take advantage of the high temperatures of liquids and vapors in a sealed container. T…
Slow-cooked meat: Round steak, not grilled, but slow-cooked in a frying pan
I am yet to be convinced that grilled meat is truly unhealthy in the absence of leaky gut problems. I am referring here to h…
What about some offal? Boiled tripes in tomato sauce
Tripe dishes are made with the stomach of various ruminants. The most common type of tripe is beef tripe from cattle. Like m…
Oven roasted meat: Pork tenderloin
This cut of pork is the equivalent in the pig of the filet mignon in cattle. It is just as soft, and lean too. A 100 g port…
Tender cuts of meat for the grill: Filet mignon and bison
Filet mignon is one of the tenderest cuts of beef. It is also one of my favorites. Filet mignon comes from the tenderloin ar…
Steamed gulf shrimp with vegetables
Few would argue against eating seafood several times a week, except in the case of seafood allergy. Shrimp is a very good op…
How to break a coconut
The coconut is often presented as a healthy food choice, which it is, as long as you are not allergic to it. Coconut meat ha…
Eating fish whole: Smelts
Since different parts of a fish have different types of nutrients that are important for our health, it makes sense to consu…
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