The Spreadsheet Diet
How a Personal Chef Got His High-Powered Client to Embrace The Whole Grains We All Need.
By Ed Bruske
Special to The Washington Post
Recipes that top the charts
By Ed Bruske
Special to The Washington Post
Picture a spreadsheet, a kitchen Excel, with grains on one axis and a variety of companion ingredients -- vegetables, herbs, nuts, marinated foods, vinegars, olive oil -- on the other. By moving across the spreadsheet, picking ingredients as you go, you can create pilafs and salads that put once-scorned nutritious foods within easy reach.Spreadsheet Categories
Recipes that top the charts
I love the idea of putting different items such as whole grains together in a "mix & match" fashion to create new, healthful dishes!
I would love to have the email for the author of this article so that I could get more information about his previous article on duck also!
Posted by Anonymous | 12:17 PM, January 24, 2006
I've tried two of these recipes and loved them. I'm not sure I trust myself, however, to create my own recipes using the "spreadsheet" since what made them good was the interesting combination of herbs. Ed Bruske - Send us more recipes!
Posted by Anonymous | 6:19 PM, January 24, 2006
This is exactly the way I like to cook - my thanks to Ed Bruske for putting together the idea of a grid, and for the great recipes that I can add to those I've made over and over again. I'd love to see more articles like this one!
Posted by Anonymous | 12:13 PM, February 03, 2006
I can't wait to try these recipes. What great ideas for a healthy start to the New Year.
I am a frequent business traveler, always struggling with eating healthy on the road. It sounds like these dishes might be safe to bring along, at room temp.
I also would be curious to know if they would freeze well. Thank you.
Posted by Anonymous | 3:55 PM, January 03, 2007