Functional Food Friday: Durban Curry | Functional Patterns

In honor of our stay in Cabo San Lucas Mexico, we decided to make our version of one of our favorite things to eat while down in Baja. A really good Guacamole is not only super delicious but is also super nutritious. The two key components of good guacamole are avocados and cilantro. Tomato and [...]

Down here in Cabo San Lucas we’re lucky to have an Organic Farmers’ Market to visit each week. We have found a farmer who sells pasture raised chicken, bones and necks to make stock and livers and hearts. No part of the chicken gets wasted! We often make Chicken Liver Pâté back in San Diego [...]

We recently shared how to make delicious ‘ice-cream’ from frozen bananas which is a great way to save and use bananas that get overripe before you can eat them. Another great way to use bananas that are ripe and need to be eaten as soon as possible is to make banana bread. The typical banana [...]

Since this is functional food Friday and we’re going to be talking about meat, we should probably address whether meat can be considered a functional food. At Functional Patterns and Authentic Human we absolutely believe it is. You have probably seen the regular news items claiming that eating red meat with kill you by causing [...]

This week we are going to take some time to provide an overview of the essential cookware that will make your cooking easier and more enjoyable. Choosing the right cookware for the job will ensure successful cooking, roasting, stir frying, sautéing or sauce making. Since you will ideally be using your cookware on a daily [...]

It seems like Memorial Day is a day when there are many Chili cook offs around the nation so we thought today would be a good day to share our favorite Chili. Chili comes in many styles and flavors influenced by various regions and with specific differences that identify it as Mexican Chili Con Carne, [...]

Today on Functional Food Friday we’re going to have a little fun! The folks from Authentic Human are sharing a quick and delicious ‘treat’ that is sugar-free and dairy-free and fits a Paleo or Primal eating plan. When you clean up your diet in order to lose weight, improve performance or heal from a condition [...]

So you may be wondering why you would want to go to the trouble of making homemade mayonnaise when it is so easy to just pick some up at the grocery store. This week, we are not focusing on what can be added to your diet to improve how functional it is – and by [...]

This week Friday’s Food is definitely functional. The folks from Authentic Human, Gavin and Candice are bringing us Durban Curry. Gavin is going to show us how to make Durban Curry and Candice tells us why curry is a super-functional food. Gavin grew up in Durban, which is a city on the East coast of [...]