Bariatric Foodie Play with your food

I’m still working on the free recipe e-book for this year’s “Play With My Food” recipe contest, but I thought in the meantime I’d showcase the winning recipes. So check back this week as I post each of the five winning recipes in the following categories: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and dessert. First up, breakfast! The winner of the breakfast …

Aubergine. That’s what I think of when I think of eggplant. Because that’s what my mom used to call it. With an exaggerated, fake French accent. Aubergine. Turns out that’s French for eggplant. Who knew? (Shouting up to heaven: “Sorry, mom, for all the times I rolled my eyes!”) It’s a nifty little vegetable once you are able to eat it. …

First, thank you for your patience in waiting for me to post this! And my apologies for the delay. As it usually happens with me there was a bit of a challenge in writing this recap in that I lost my notes! I’m going from memory here but thankfully I have a good memory so let’s get to it! For …

  Zoodles! Have you tried them? I LOVE THEM. That’s one (of many) reasons I wrote Oodles of Zoodles: Your Jumpstart Guide to Zucchini Noodles, which gives you not only a great starter collection of zoodle recipes, but step-by-step (and illustrated) instructions on how to prepare your zoodle dishes so they come out perfect. Be sure to check it out! (After …

Recipes like my “Cheesy Chicken & Cauliflower Bake” are quick and easy – do you have a quick & easy recipe you love? Submit it!   I know you guys have some great recipes cooking in your kitchen. How? Let’s just call it intuition. (Or we could call it the fact that you guys often send me your recipes!) Well …

FCC Disclousre: The reviewer of this product was given free product for the purposes of this review, however was not monetarily compensated. The opinions expressed in this review are those solely of the individual reviewer and may not express the opinions of Bariatric Foodie.   Enlighten Ice Cream. The good for you ice cream. We’ll just see about that won’t …

Now for those of you who are new, I’d like to let you in on an important piece of information (that you probably already know): when I put the name of food is “quotations,” it means it’s not really that food. So “rice” is not rice and, in this case, those “grits” are not grits. We all on the same …

Disclaimer: Blue Diamond provided almonds for use in this blog post. The opinions stated in this blog post are the unbiased opinions of its author.  I’ll let you in on a little secret if you promise not to shame me for it. Part of why I like to work out is because I like workout recovery food. There, I said …

 Even though we’ve been experiencing fall-like weather in Baltimore over the past week it is still, in fact, summer. Which means my gut instinct is to NOT turn on the oven if I can avoid it. I have one big cooking day a week where I make or “start” a bunch of things and then finish them off throughout …

  Ah…fall. I love it! Some folks get down during fall because it’s the gateway to winter. Not me! No, no. I love, love, love fall. (But I hate winter.) Especially because after many long weeks of avoiding my oven like the plague I can turn it back on! (I don’t have central AC…the struggle is real!) So in honor of …