The dark complexion is no accident. I actually like my food darn near burned, but that’s my issue…  Oven fried porkchops. Nothing new, right? Shake ‘n Bake has had this on lock a looooong time, right? Believe it or not, there’s still room to make this just a bit more WLS-friendly. How? That trick I taught you guys about …

This is something new I’m trying out. I figured it’d be an easy way to summarize everything we’ve covered on Bariatric Foodie this week! Monday: we went over the details of the Pouch Party Pledge and announced the winner! Tuesday: For all the Reuben lovers in the house, I offer the recipe for my adorable Reubein ramekin! Wednesday: We visited …

Often when I post a recipe, I get a message or two from people asking where to buy certain ingredients or lamenting about having to order something in order to make one of my recipes. I just want to let you know I hear you! You might notice that these days I am giving more and more local suggestions to replace …

~by Nikki Anyone who ever saw the very first Baltimore episode of “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” knows about the wonderful confection that is “Cap’n Crunch French Toast.” It’s served at the Blue Moon Café and it is an experience (meaning, one I’m glad I got to have before my surgery!). I make a variation of this breakfast for my children …

This is a total riff off of the “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and there is probably a WLS version of this somewhere. But here at Bariatric Foodie, I like to think we approach things just a wee bit differently than the general bariatric community. Keeping that in mind, I compiled a list of seven habits that I think …

Someone call the Food CSI. That one on the left looks MURDERED!!!  Sometimes bad things happen to good food. Even mine. Especially mine. Which is why this recipe underwent my self-imposed three test batches before I even thought about presenting it to you. And yet…something went wrong. As you can see, one of my pocket sandwiches is gorgeous – …

(Note: Nik accidentally left her other camera at home today so Nik doesn’t have process pics for this YET. But tomorrow morning I will so…stay tuned! We now return to our regularly scheduled nominousness…) I am now officially addicted to ramekin cooking. Why? Mostly because it’s automatic portion control, it’s easy to figure up just a few ramekins full of …

Ok, so I realize since I’ve been stepping my photography game up lately that this picture COULD have been better. But it was taken at work. Cut me some slack!!!  You ever go to make something you REALLY want, reasonably sure you have all the ingredients, then you go to finish it and you find that you really don’t? …

PWYF??? Play with your food! Learn that acronym…then we can speak in secret languages and giggle as others look confused! Moving on…seriously. This acronym is going to become increasingly important on Bariatric Foodie in the coming months…so I want you to know what I mean while I describe a “PWYF Moment.” An e-mail I got from a reader, Melissa, perfectly …

~by Nikki The pies go marching one by one…hurrah…hurrah…  Raise your hand if you, like me, used to love it when your mom was too busy to cook dinner and handed you off one of those little pot pies that you cook in the oven? The only problem for me with that little pie…and I mean the ONLY problem…was …