Green Thai Curry the Easy Way – Me vs. Food

Green Thai Curry

“That doesn’t look like curry,” my friend said as I was showing off my latest dish.  ”It’s too pale”. “I can promise you….it’s fire on a plate.  And it’s greener than it looks” Thai food is  one of my guilty pleasures.  The only problem was that it was one of [...] Read more »

Mujadarrah – Me vs. Food

mujadarrah

My wife groaned when she found out that we were having this dish after our Monday evening workout. “I thought that that was stuff you ate when we didn’t eat together”, she told me.  The thought of eating lentils and rice just didn’t sound near as appetizing as a wide [...] Read more »

Fitness Comes in Baby Steps

10 years ago, I was in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal and sporting a pudge around my mid-section.  As the days passed, that pudge turned into a pootch.  One day, a friend of mine poked me in the love handles and said something to the effect of “someone’s expanding“. [...] Read more »

The Revolution is LOCAL

They say the internet is more scalable. And it is.  Entrepreneurs will have you imagining that by opening a storefront, you will have the potential to reach 1,000′s or even hundreds of 1,000′s. And they are right. Bloggers would have you believe that a part-time income from your niche website [...] Read more »

Ethiopian Cabbage Dish- Me vs. Food

ethiopian cabbage

I ran across this recipe awhile back and have since made it a couple times. My wife hates the way it makes the house smell but it is a hearty and cheap meal that is not only delicious but healthy.  It’s a dish that combines cabbage, potatoes and carrots with some [...] Read more »

Write that Down- Writing in Analog in a Digital World

“We don’t know where we get our ideas from.  What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops” -John Cleese “Write that Down” -Van Wilder The first quote is the opening quote from a chapter in the book Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon and [...] Read more »

How to Customize the AddThis Plugin

The Add This plug-in is crazy simple to use and almost perfect if you want to have social buttons on your website.  I say almost because out of the box, anytime someone “tweets” your message, @ addthis will be at the end of the message rather than your name. If [...] Read more »