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An Autographed Cookbook? A perfect holiday gift!

Not sure what to get for someone on your list? Consider an autographed Glorious One-Pot Meals cookbook with a personalized inscription to the recipient!

Glorious One-Pot Meals introduces my unique, patented infusion cooking method through over 100 recipes for quick and easy dinners.

Created by layering whole foods into a Dutch oven and then flash-cooking for 30-45 minutes, Glorious One-Pot Meals are deliciously nutritious complete meals — and clean-up is only one pot!

I have resisted selling the new Glorious One-Pot Meals directly from my website thus far this year, but now I am offering to personally autograph any cookbooks ordered through the GOPM site store through December, 2009.

Who could use a copy of Glorious One-Pot Meals to make their lives easier and healthier?

– busy moms
– empty nesters
– singles
– health-conscious people
– budget-conscious people
– those with food allergies (gluten-free, dairy-free, etc.)
– vegetarians and vegans
– time-challenged people
– seniors
– new graduates
– R.V.ers

Did I miss anyone?! Probably. The better question may be: Who wouldn’t want to have a quick and easy solution at their fingertips to the daily question of “What’s for dinner?”

Purchase your autographed copy of Glorious One-Pot Meals by December 20th and receive it by Christmas!

Glorious One-Pot Meal recipe: Feta Shrimp

Is is safe to say we’re all sick of turkey by the first week of December?

For a change, check out this Glorious One-Pot Meal recipe for Feta Shrimp! A delightfully surprising meal of tangy feta with smoky roasted tomatoes and succulent shrimp. Yum!

I’ve finally gotten around to uploading some of my televised appearances this year — yes, you’re allowed to say, “Took you long enough!” I know, I know. I haven’t posted a new video in quite some time. My only excuse is that I could really use an assistant or two!

Removing Plantar Warts with Salicylic Acid and Apple Cider Vinegar

Seems like plantar warts plague a lot of people, so I figured it was time for an update on the plantar wart remedy I wrote about two years ago.

In case you haven’t seen the original post on using apple cider vinegar to remove plantar warts, I wrote about my friend Pete’s plantar wart and how he was using apple cider vinegar and duct tape to remove it. A recent commenter inspired me to see if it actually worked, so I sent off a message to my friend Pete and posed the question to him. Here is his reply:

“I switched to a mixture of salicylic acid and apple cider vinegar but yes it did go away, completely. No signs of it at all. I got the salicylic acid OTC (over-the-counter) and would apply it twice a day under the duct tape with a gauze soaked in cider. After 2-3 months it slowly started to dissipate and then one day when I pulled the tape off, the whole thing came off. It was a very slow process but it was the salicylic acid in the end which did the trick.”

Salicylic acid is a natural product that comes from the bark of the willow tree and has been used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesiac since ancient times. Nowadays it’s often used in treating acne, wrinkles, aging, and other cosmetic skin issues. Since salicylic acid loosens and removes aged cells, I can understand why it might be helpful for plantar warts.

Pete writes: “One other point which I forgot to mention. About half way through the process when it was incredibly tender, my doctors only concern when he saw it was that of infection. I made a point of cleaning it several times a day since it was on my foot.”

Let us know if this works for you, or if you have found other effective plantar wart remedies!

Food Matters by Mark Bittman

Here’s my beef with the mainstream diet and fitness industry: they say you should change the way you eat, but they don’t give you the tools to make it work in your regular life. They don’t teach you how to shop in the grocery store or what to keep stocked in your pantry and freezer so that you can always eat well. They don’t give you a “go-to” cooking technique that will give you a healthy meal when cooking is the last thing you want to do.

Laura Miller explains it better than I can in Salon’s review of Food Matters, a recent book by Mark Bittman that’s “an unusual blend of manifesto, self-help manual and cookbook designed to convince people that they can drastically improve their diets with relatively little discomfort.”

She writes: “Of all the challenges confronting the “Food Matters” plan for “responsible eating” … probably the single most obdurate is the fact that so many contemporary Americans simply don’t know how to cook. By “cook,” I don’t mean being able to concoct an impressive dinner the one night a month you have guests over while otherwise subsisting on nuked Lean Cuisine. Real home cooking means having a good repertoire of reliable, quick, uncomplicated recipes and understanding enough of the underlying principles to improvise when needed. It means knowing how to stock a pantry and plan your menus so that you shop for groceries only once a week. It’s a set of skills manifested as an attitude, something you can acquire only through regular practice, and it’s the one thing that can make a person truly at ease in a kitchen.”

Another Glorious One-Pot Meal fan

Susan Joseph, a new initiate to Glorious One-Pot Meals, details her introduction to this quick and easy cooking method in a recent blog post.

Thanks, Susan! Please keep spreading the word and enjoying deliciously healthy meals.

I love hearing stories like Susan’s — they keep me going when it feels like the world just doesn’t get it about how revolutionary and helpful this cooking method is. Your stories, dear readers, inspire me to keep developing recipes for the next book and not give up on this career path. I am so appreciative when you share them with me.  🙂

Happy cooking!