Category: Food (Page 1 of 2)

Science says that chocolate is good for you.

September 28, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Effect of cocoa flavanol supplementation for the prevention of cardiovascular disease events,

I’ve been buying this nutritional supplement from Aldi for years.

Cocoa extract supplementation did not significantly reduce total cardiovascular events among older adults but reduced CVD death by 27%.

Finally, nutritional science has some good news. The study looks legit.

The study was conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital. There were 12,666 women over 65 years old, and 8776 men over 60 years old in a double-blind, placebo controlled study. A 27% reduction in death by cardiovascular disease is substantial.

Sparky doesn’t like picking apples.

September 23, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

It’s apple picking time, and Sparky isn’t excited. Sparky is concerned for my safety because I am climbing a ladder wearing crocs.

If I had a bucket list, this would have been on it.

September 20, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Here’s a fruit that is native to Ohio, but you’ve never tried.

Watching The Conjuring while making soup.

September 7, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

While making split pea soup, I’m watching The Conjuring. The movie is super-creepy. A carrot this twisted, may be possessed by an entity who once walked the Earth, but not in human form. The movie doesn’t specifically mention demonically possessed vegetables, but why take chances?

Sparky isn’t going to get what he wants.

September 7, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sparky has every reason to think that good things are coming his way. Poor dog, it’s not going to work out this time.

The Cracker Barrel mystery.

August 23, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

CNN: Cracker Barrel stock tanks after unveiling a controversial logo change

This Cracker Barrel controversy doesn’t make any sense to me. Coincidentally, that puts me in agreement with Cracker Barrel’s target market.

Sous Vide brisket

July 19, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

I’m hungry. And lazy.

Everybody makes a big deal about cooking a brisket, so I wanted to give it a try.

Nobody should eat like this.

July 9, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

WSJ: My Digestive Tract Flunked a Health Test. Here’s How I’m Coping.

That is a photo of the journalist’s new-and-improved breakfast. It’s the worst looking thing I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t look like food. It doesn’t resemble anything. If it didn’t have the white stuff, it might resemble a scat salad. Mouse turds mixed with deer shit, with other animals contributing.

It’s supposed to be fruit, half of a granola bar, chia seeds, almonds and Greek yogurt.

Why would anyone eat that for breakfast? Just have black coffee and a cigarette, and live free.

How would anyone eat that? Put some yogurt on a spoon, and roll it in the mouse turds. Or mix it all together and eat a small bowl of disappointment.

Outside incentives

June 27, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Walking the dog or doing yard work is more fun when candy grows on bushes.

The blackberries are getting ripe and they are the best. Cherries are just as tasty, but birds eat them about 15 minutes after they ripen. Plums might be good, but my trees have more black knot than fruit. Eating an apple doesn’t feel like a treat, and the pears are too firm until they sit on the window sill for a while.

No sign of poison ivy in Sparky’s favorite parts of the yard.

Sparky is learning to use tools.

May 10, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

When all of the Nutella is gone, I give the empty jar to Sparky.¹ He has an impressively long tongue, but he can’t get to the bottom half of the jar. He puts a ball from the snack pit in there, and when it rolls out, it has some Nutella on it.