Introducing The New Blog

    Despite the fact that I am already barely managing to keep on top of my other blogs, I've been told too many times that I should start writing about food. If there is one place I feel confident, happy, and productive it is my kitchen. These last few years, as my body has gone through changes, intentional and otherwise, my concept of  "good food" has altered dramatically. Whole foods, quality ingredients, simply prepared to fuel my body, satiate my appetite, and soothe my soul. I train hard, workout obsessively, am hungry most of the time, and eat a lot. I need rocket fuel, not dirty coal, to fuel the machine that is me. I have become a tad obsessed about eating pure, organic, non-GMHO foods, and not polluting my body with chemicals. I avoid processed and prepackaged foods, avoiding anything with the demon High Fructose Corn Syrup. To make matters more complicated, I have developed various food intolerances. Dairy has become the enemy, in most of its forms, thankfully butter and cheese are not too problematic, but milk and yogurt tear me up. Wheat, in most forms, cause heartburn, which is inflammation. I have nearly cut meat from my diet, and am disinclined to consume most animal proteins, although I've been using eggs lately, to up my protein intake as I recover from a long, hard season of racing. Just recently I have discovered a nut allergy that was never a problem until I began eating a lot of nuts as a high calorie protein source. The long and short, I neurotically read labels, have to avoid a number of common foods, and therefore, it is just a damned sight easier to cook everything from scratch.
    So after a lifetime of being able to cook and eat damn near anything and everything, I am now having to alter old favorites, and create new favorites. This particular blog will be an attempt to chronicle my recipes, if you can call my handful-of-this-pinch-of-that way of creating to fall into the category of "recipes." I am hoping that this will make me more inclined to pay attention to what I do, maybe actually measure just how much "a handful" is.
    That is it in a nutshell. A chance to document what I create in my beautiful kitchen, to shovel into my gaping maw.