The Ultimate Guide to Weekday Grilling–Steaks, Chops, Fillets, and Veggies

August 10, 2012

  After a long day of work, you get home. And you’re starving. You’ve got three options: Find something in the fridge or freezer that you can nuke in the microwave. Go back out and find a restaurant or drive thru window. Make a quick weekday dinner from healthy ingredients. The first option is always […]

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Adventures in Zion Canyon

August 3, 2012

The path narrowed and I clutched the chains along the path until my knuckles turned white. To my right was a sheer drop of about 1,000 feet. To my left was a sheer drop of about 1,000 feet. And ahead of me was a steep climb to the top of Angel’s Landing, which overlooks Zion […]

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Cooking, Energy, and the Power of Full Engagement

July 27, 2012

Learning how to cook is the first step in achieving self-actualization. Hubris? Hyperbole? The ramblings of a sheltered blogger? Hardly. While learning how to make a pot roast with mashed potatoes won’t make your life fulfilled in and of itself, it is a fundamental skill that will make your journey there all the easier. This […]

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The French Lunch–No Cooking Required!

July 20, 2012

What is “enough” for you, and how do you make the most out of as little as possible? That’s the question that gets tackled every week on one of my favorite podcasts, named (wait for it…) Enough! The show started its run focusing on how to how to get the most bang for your buck […]

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The Food Lover’s Guide to Portland

July 13, 2012

Put a bird on it! This past weekend I journeyed out to Portland for the awesomely-named World Domination Summit. (It was just as cool as it sounds, and you can read a good write-up on it at the Huffington Post if you’d like to learn more.) One of my favorite things about traveling is immersing […]

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How to Make a Manly Salad

July 6, 2012

Salads are one of the weakest meals known to man. They are too “dainty.” They are best used as a side to a heartier meal. And there’s something simply, well, un-manly about them. But there’s plenty good about them as well. Most salads are at least 90% Real Food. It’s hard to fake all the […]

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The Blog Is Dead! Long Live the Blog!

June 30, 2012

“All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.” -Ovid, The Metamorphoses I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is this will be the final […]

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