Today is day 2 of 5 of my weeklong juice challenge. I am realizing, just today, that it is quite ambitious to produce a video per day. Producing a video per day takes almost as long as it takes to clean all of the juicer parts. If you have a juicer, you can probably relate…
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4 Ingredient Basic Green Juice
Last week, I visited a local juicery named Clean Juice (this mention is not sponsored). I accidentally ordered the 20 ounce serving of juice and it was $14. I call it an accident because I really did want the 20 ounce serving, but I was quite shocked when the cashier told me the price. Clean…
Stove Top Grilled Vegetables
Vegetables get a bad rap, don’t they? They can be bland, yet colorful, little carriers of vital vitamins and nutrients, yet so few of us eat enough of them! I have discovered that one way to make your vegetables a bit more exciting is by grilling them. “But, but…I am poor and I don’t have…
Cooking Farro for the First Time
Have you ever cooked farro? Have you ever even heard of farro? I have the great and almighty Whole Foods to thank for my introduction to farro. I saw it on the Whole Foods salad bar and decided to try it. It looked like some kind of lovely and fluffy, more gangster version of brown…
Giant Ass Zucchini
Cooking your own food means discovering the wonder of vegetables. Vegetables are like people: they come in all shapes, colors, and sizes. Like people, some vegetables definitely have more length and girth. Take, for example, this big ass zucchini. I bought this giant zucchini at Whole Foods the other day. It’s labeled as organic, so…
Celery Juice: The Basic Way
Have you heard of celery juice? If not, which rock have you been living under? I’d like to come knock on your rock and tell you about celery juice. I am not a nutritionist, or really much of anything other than a smartass. I only decided to try celery juice this morning because a close…
Despair at Whole Foods
I work from home and most days, I try to get out of the house and enjoy the horrors of being around other people. Lately, I have been visiting this lovely little coffee shop in Montrose, a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, where I currently live. The coffee shop is called Inversion, and they sell the…
Healthy Steamed Broccoli
The worst part about writing a recipe about broccoli is that I have to remember how to spell the word broccoli. Have you ever spelled the word “broccoli” without assistance? If you have, then good for you. I hope you won the spelling bee as a child. Enough horsing around, let’s get down to broccoli…
Healthy Chicken Meatballs
Save fat and calories with this easy recipe for chicken meatballs.
Basic Ass Cooking 