I’ve decided that pickles are going to be the next big thing. The next “bacon” if you will. Why not? Bacon’s had a very nice run and still tastes yummy, but why not pickles now? Pickles are more complex in flavor and take a more mature palette than bacon. Also, they’re a little friendlier...
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This is the chicken cottage mac Sometimes good things come from the combination of a few mediocre things. Conceiving this meal was one of those times. The Chicken Cottage Mac consist of 1/2 can chicken (water drained), 1/4 cup cottage cheese, and 3 slices wheat toast. I seasoned this tower of protein and carbs with...
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The Food Guide Pyramid is out. After spending two million dollars in tax payer money, the government (The USDA specifically) has gotten rid of the pyramid and created a pie chart (actually a dinner plate of some sort). Irony aside about the new symbol being a “pie” chart, is the whole “instructions on eating”...
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As a musician who performs and tours independent of record label support, I have had to learn how to scare up quality meals on a scant budget. For several years I toured as a soloist so it was easy enough to supplement a vending machine snack for an actual meal when I was laid...
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5 ingredients in the food version of purgatory called left-over-land came together to form 1 great dish. This dish starts with chicken. As a rule, if meat makes its way into my grocery cart it’s first been labeled with a bright yellow sticker that reads MANAGERS SPECIAL. This weeks mystery meat was chicken breast tenderloins, 3lbs for $4.27, SOLD!...
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One of the hardest things to admit to myself over the years has been the fact that I am an artist. Why? Fear of rejection? Fear of other “artists” not agreeing with me? A perception that I needed to be corporate? Thinking that my art wasn’t real art? You know… Writing isn’t art. Singing...
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I really could have used an Easy Button. Somewhere in the process of writing The Starving Artist’s Diet I decided that I should make a collector’s cereal box as a gift and marketing tool for the book. After listening to a speech by Seth Godin, I was motivated to create the cereal box as...
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It is very hard to ship. Yet it seems so simple. In fact all I had to do was open an email, attach a file, and click send. But every time I thought I was ready to attach that file, I’d think of something else I needed to add, or I’d see an error...
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