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I’m still on the road to recovery from anemia, though I am feeling somewhat better and was able (yay!) to do a run yesterday without the deep, sickening exhaustion that had been accompanying my exercise. (That was my first run—a short one, just a mile—after taking a week off from exercising while I get my [...]

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I’m weighing in this week at 168.8 pounds, which means I have now lost 34.8 pounds since January of 2007 and over 58 pounds since my highest weight. I have 18 pounds until I reach my goal weight! That’s exciting. (My goal weight could always change if I decide I’m comfortable at a [...]

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Coping with a diagnosis of celiac disease or food allergies and learning to eat healthfully can have some very key things in common: they teach you to look for alternatives to what you formerly consumed. They teach you to combine foods in new ways. They teach you to seek out foods you [...]

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It’s raining! It’s raining in Georgia! It’s been raining in Georgia for two days!
Yes, this is a big deal. For those of you who don’t know, we have been in the worst known drought in Georgia history. Our water source for Atlanta (Atlanta has the smallest watershed of any major US metro area) [...]

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Yep, I’m still in love with having a baked potato for dinner once a week. Last week (which seems so very long ago right now), my simplicity group took on the baked potato theme. Our host for the evening slow-baked the potatoes per my instructions, and the rest of us brought toppings: [...]

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. . . was very tasty.
potato baked for three hours (see why in previous posts)
goat brie
cranberry-orange relish
organic bacon
organic, herbed turkey breast

Substitute in some extra-firm tofu or seitan sauteed in soy sauce or some other salty goodness (or I guess some fake meat, even), and you’d have an excellent vegetarian potato.

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I told you I’d be on a baked potato kick for a while, didn’t I? And I am. . . . Last night was this week’s slowww-baked-potato-with-a-fabulous-topping night.
I decided to make a beef stroganoff tonight as the topping. Here’s the recipe I made up as I went along:
Beef Stroganoff Potato Topping
Serves 4.
1 [...]

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. . . and Alanna at A Veggie Venture has the secret: it’s baking the potato for a long period of time. That’s it? Yep. Well, baking it for a long period of time after giving it a simple treatment of olive oil (I added kosher salt to my rub) and then [...]

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