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The Amateur Nutritionist
http://amateurnutritionist.blogspot.com
Meal ideas, food highlights, and personal opinions from a nutrition hobbyist
Recent Posts
Onigiri
First thing this morning (after breakfast, of course) I headed to the store to pick up the ingredients for my Japanese recipe weekend. A selection of my spoils:From left to right: mirin (sweetened sake), nori (roasted seaweed), and japonica rice. I e...
Models: My Two Cents
It's chic to hate models these days. "Airbrush," "body-image," "unhealthy ideals" and other buzzwords pop up in every other magazine article. Joyful mobs flock to the cult of Lizzie Miller. Soap makers launch campaigns aimed at "real women" and fashi...
Nothing New
One of the perils of living the pseudo-single life: leftovers. I haven't eaten anything blog-worthy over the past few days because I'm still working on things I cooked last week. Breakfasts have looked like this:And lunches have looked like this:Sens...
Thinking Ahead: Resolutions
I'm not much of a resolutions person. I've always wondered why we're required to overhaul our lives beginning on a certain day every year. Is January 1st like some magical holy day in which personality traits can be swapped or smooshed out most easil...
Banana Bread
Nobody dislikes banana bread. It's even more universal than parfaits. Because honestly, when Donkey says, "Have you ever met a person, you say, 'Let's get some parfait,' they say, 'Hell no, I don't like no parfait'?", he obviously never asked me. I d...
Sunday Pancakes
Yesterday I woke up late. Really, really late. When I finally opened my eyes and looked over at the clock, it was approaching noon! My sweetie was even worse; he was up until 4 or 5 in the morning doing his holiday homework assignments, presumably be...

