I find I still have a lot to learn about how to grill. I’m still living in a world where you throw the burgers on, wait till they look dark with black stripes and then throw some cheese on. Now, I’m doing steaks and pork chops and have a bigger fear that I’ll ruin a $10 piece of meat because of my ignorance. Meat and grills all seem to be very temperamental and many are in the ranks of grillers who live with ancient apparatus because they know where all the grill hot and cold spots are.
What I do know how to do is follow a recipe. I volunteered to try out a new one using raisins the other day. Seems the California Raisin Board is promoting the use of raisins as a natural sweetener and sticking them in a sauce seems like a natural idea. I ran out and bought all the ingredients including tomatillos, raisins, and a can of chipotle chiles “in adobo” (whatever that is), as well as four nice pork chops for a surprise Friday night treat for my hard-working wife.
Bacteria on the floor attaches to food on contact, so forget all you’ve ever heard about eating something off the floor.
In a New York Times Q+A column, they quote Dr. Roy M. Gulick, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College, who said, “Eating dropped food poses a risk for ingestion of bacteria and subsequent gastrointestinal disease, and the time the food sits on the floor does not change the risk.”
January 26, 2011 – 10:01 PM
Shopping for pregnant mom or baby products can be a difficult task. DadLabs finds out what types of natural products parents should look for.
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November 30, 2010 – 10:49 PM
My wife and I are always looking for healthy, organic and tasty foods to feed our kids. My wife, especially, has always struggled with feeding the kids homemade organic foods vs. anything that comes in a jar. And the recent trend of frozen baby food doesn’t work as well, since our freezer is already jam packed with packages of breastmilk, homemade food and more recently, a quarter of a grass-fed cow. Given that insanity with which we approach food, I was please to find the 
Happy Baby organic baby food pouches a welcome option for baby food.
Pros:
– Delicious flavors. We tried the beet/blueberry/banana, broccoli/pea/pear, spinach/mango/pear and chick chick – all of which our hungry son inhaled rather rapidly.
November 5, 2010 – 11:46 AM
I guess I’ve really become a mom now, since the highlight of my day yesterday was getting my six year-old to eat both fruit and vegetables at dinner. While my wife worries that they will starve to death from not eating any food, I obsess that I can’t get them to eat the right things. After years of trying, I can claim success with my daughter who now snacks on red peppers and regularly eats her broccoli. My boy, on the other hand, just shakes his head when forced to consider a banana, grape or tomato. However, things may be changing. Here’s what I’m doing. It’s not a miracle, and some you’ve heard before, but it bears repeating. We dads need a to-do list to keep this stuff front and center in the war on keeping our kids healthy and growing.
1. Don’t give up. Once you do, they might as well eat Halloween candy all year. It’s your job to have the discipline to put the stuff out there, and show them new things. You will find things eventually they will like, if only for
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