Difficulty Level: 1 PITA
Cookware:
Crock Pot, Dutch Oven, or any type of Slow Cooker
Ingredients:
3 lb. lamb stew meat, cut in 1-inch chunks
1 large onion, chopped
3 carrots, chopped
2 parsnips, chopped
12 dried apricots, cut in half
1/4 cup dried cherries
2 cups chicken stock
1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
Difficulty Level: 1 PITA
Cookware:
Cast Iron or High Quality Stainless Steel Pan
Ingredients:
Red Meat
Salt
Black Pepper
(Optional) Olive Oil or Butter
Difficulty Level: 3 PITAs (totally worth it though)
Cookware:
Cast Iron Pan
Ingredients:
4 whole cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
10 to 15 Chinese dried red chiles
8 ounces pork belly sliced into bite-size pieces
Dark green parts from 2 large leeks, washed and sliced
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
Beth and I had the immense privilege of assisting Dr. Kathy Dooley at the Level 1 NeuroKinetic Therapy seminar in New York City a few months ago. NeuroKinetic Therapy seminars are two day affairs — an incredibly short period of time during which to absorb a substantial amount of information. I honestly can’t think of anyone better equipped for the task than Dr. Dooley, who does everything from teaching anatomy at medical schools, to seeing patients, to bending steel with her bare hands (no joke).
In Mr. & Mrs. Diet Food: Kitchen Clean Out Part I and Part II we figured out what items to purge from your home and set up your kitchen for food prep and cooking greatness.
The next step is to venture a trip to your local grocery store to restock your kitchen. Tackling the grocery store is very important as the items you purchase will be the foundation for your continued nutritional success.
BUT BEFORE YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT GOING TO THE STORE…
1. Count your meals.
To make grocery shopping more like science and less like an episode of Super Market Sweep you should figure out your weekly food needs — before you go.
The short foot exercise is a technique recommended by Czech physiologist and postural expert Dr. Vladimir Janda, to build strength and endurance in the muscles that support the arch. The technique primarily strengthens the abductor hallucis muscle, an important dynamic stabilizer of the foot.
This video is a great example of how a traditional short foot is achieved and trained.
We cool? Short foot edification complete. Let’s talk some specifics.
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I guess you could say I misjudged the situation.
A decade ago I tried to talk Danny Kavadlo out of becoming a personal trainer. He had just taken on a mortgage, a wife, and a newborn. He had health insurance and a steady paycheck. He didn’t listen. His brother, Al Kavadlo was already a successful personal trainer and was encouraging Danny to throw it all away and pursue a career in meatheadedness (real word).
It seemed only fitting that Beth and I spend the weekend learning from the Kavadlo Bros at the Dragon Door sponsored Progressive Calisthenics Certification in Alexandria, VA.
Last time I wrote a Deciphering Diets article I touched on the basic underpinning of most diets;
“Most popular diets share the same common principals – which in theory is why they all work, at least for a period of time. Reduce total food intake, eat less junk, eat more whole foods, reduce refined carbohydrates, eat more vegetables, and stick to leaner meats.
After that, it’s just placing an enticing patina over the basics to try and get you to purchase books, supplements, and whatever else they can successfully market to you.”
I then promised I would illustrate how just about ANYTHING can be turned into a diet if you follow these simple principles.
So, without further adieu…
In Mr. & Mrs. Diet Food: Kitchen Clean Out Part I we talked about the various foodstuffs that needed to be exiled from your kitchen.
In Part II we will go on an archeological dig through your cookware and appliances and help you determine what stays and what goes so that you can reach kitchen Nirvana.
Cooking with Kurt (and some other guys).If you’re looking for Part 1 of the review, it’s here.
Day 2:
When a conference says that the second day starts at 8 AM you don’t expect that to mean an hour of breakfast and 30 minutes of pre-recorded chatter from an equipment manufacturer. You don’t expect it because that’s a pretty shady way of making it sound like there’s more education than there really is.
This does not count as information
