CABANA BOY COOKS: Our Guest Blogger is Dietitian, Julie Livengood

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Our Guest Blogger is Dietitian, Julie Livengood

Our Guest Blogger is Dietitian, Julie Livengood. This is our first dietitian to be a guest blogger. Julie is a registered and licensed dietitian in the state of Missouri. She is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University. Julie has experience in several areas of nutrition including public health, community health, food service and clinical. Our guest dietitian is dedicated to nutritional health and healing. Julie does a great job counseling people about their eating habits and helping them move forward. Providing an empowering environment is Julie's priority; one that erases the concept of dieting and encompasses nourishment and mindfulness as part of a healthy lifestyle.

I know Julie very well as she worked with me before my retirement from the food industry. She also worked with me on the cookbook, my website-barrybeacom.tateauthor.com and now the blog by providing the nutritional information for the recipes in the cookbook. Julie also seems to have questions for me about butter and heavy whipping cream in my recipes, I'm not really sure why.

A few fun facts on Julie are below.

1. Julie claims to have NEVER eaten a Big Mac in her life. Her husband would like to dispute that but has no real evidence, so she is sticking to her claim.

2. Unlike my wife and daughter, Julie does not collect shoes. Her shopping obsession is swim suits and in particular- bikinis.

3. Even though she is a dietitian and thin, her favorite food is a Casey's Pizza. Two of our sons think Casey's has the best pizza too. I guess Claudia and I will have to break down and buy one to see. Any comments from those reading the blog would be appreciated. Thanks.

4. Julie and her husband, Dana, own and operate "Outlaw Fireworks" selling fun items for the 4th of July. That's where most of her vacation time goes but they have a good time. I don't know about others, but Claudia and I love watching fireworks shows. The St. Joe Mustangs Baseball Team in St. Joseph, Missouri has the best fireworks show in the area. They do it after every Saturday night home game.

My Etiquette Dinner went great and I've been told I did good on the The Hometown Morning Show too. I haven't seen it yet.

This week has WeightWatcher Points for sides from the cookbook, Julie's blog on Thursday and a recipe on Friday and Saturday. Have a great week.

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AliceNovember 11, 2011 at 9:56 PM
I beg to differ on who has the best pizza. I'll take FOUR cheese pizza (HyVee's very own) any day over any pizza Then purchase Canadian bacon or pepperoni to put on the pizza before baking. Yum. Think I might have to follow Julie's footsteps and get your cook book too. Alice
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Barry BeacomNovember 13, 2011 at 12:42 AM
That sounds good and I'll have to try it. I just like pizza and rarely complain about who's it is. But I have been more into thin crusts in recent years.
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Cabana Boy Cooks is a food blog that gives a little insight and help on Tuesdays. That is followed by recipes on Wednesdays and Thursdays each week. This blog is for all who enjoy cooking but is geared towards new & inexperienced cooks.

This food blog came about because I wrote a cookbook for new and inexperienced individuals wishing to learn their way around the kitchen. It is an extension of that cookbook and offers more than 600 recipes here. The cookbook has an additional 125 recipes plus helpful instruction and advise..

I try to offer recipes that cover all aspects of cooking. You'll see on the tabs above that the recipes are broke into categories. Gluten-Free and Vegetarian recipes are marked behind them with a (GF) or (V) sign. Many of the other recipes can be adopted to meet gluten-free or vegetarian by making minor changes.

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My Cookbook

More Than Your First Cookbook

Every year, thousands of young people graduate high school or college and find themselves on their own for the first time. Amid all the excitement and freedom that comes with this fresh start, many of these newly independent people will find themselves out of their comfort zone when it comes to one critically important area--food.

This cookbook helps those people establish a new comfort zone in the "Kitchen" and learn to enjoy being creative in their culinary pursuit.

The cookbook draws on all the years of my life to collect the recipes, tips, anecdotes and life advice that will help everyone. From safety and sanitation to menu planning and budgeting, I walk new cooks through all the basics of food preparation. A great gift for children or grandchildren just beginning to cook for themselves and a useful reference for more experienced cooks, this cookbook offers readers 125 mouthwatering recipes to match all tastes and abilities. I believe that cooking should be fun and personal, so all the recipes leave room for experimentation. There are even tips on how to make a few of the dishes fit into a vegetarian diet.

Breakfast, soups, salads, sandwiches, entrees, sides and desserts are all covered, along with a few odds and ends. Whether you're looking for the right way to set the table for a formal dinner, you want to take your grilling to the next level or you just want to figure out how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon, The cookbook will help you find the answer.

GLUTEN-FREE Recipes and Information

A few years ago, my granddaughter discovered she has Celiac and needs to be Gluten-Free. I started doing a special week of Gluten-Free information and recipes on this blog then and they appear every four (4) weeks. So if you happen to be on a Gluten-Free diet or know someone that could this help, please check it out.

There is a recipe tab above that holds all the GF recipes (in alphabetical order). It also holds the information posts in the order they have been posted.

All Gluten-Free recipes have this (GF) mark behind the titles. There are many other recipes on this blog that are or can be easily adapted to be Gluten-Free. So you may want to check other recipes too.

I also try and mark VEGETARIAN recipes with a (V) behind the titles as well. I hope these features help many of you that want or need these options for your lifestyle.

About the Blog's Author

I spend over 40 years in the food industry doing everything from pot scrubber/dishwasher to managing around 250 employees. In 2009 I retired from my career to start a new adventure. That adventure was to write and publish a cookbook for new and inexperienced cooks. Many of my years in the industry involved working in "Higher Education." I saw a need for such a cookbook as I watched college students move on to a life on their own. So it has become a mission of mine to help anyone that wants to improve their cooking skills and learn to enjoy being in the kitchen.

In April of 2011 I started my food blog "Cabana Boy Cooks" as a continuation of the cookbook. The blog covers many areas and topics. It also offers at least two (2) recipes a week not found in the cookbook. There is now over 200 recipes for you on this food blog.

Once a month, I write a food column under "Cabana Boy Cooks" in the weekly newspaper, Nodaway News Leader in Maryville, MO that includes a recipe. Some of the recipes are from this food blog and others come from my cookbook "More Than Your First Cookbook"

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Our Guest Blogger is Dietitian, Julie Livengood

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