The Happy Diabetic Kitchen Podcast

05/18/202005/18/2020

Best Value Food Processor #2: The Cuisinart Elemental

When a trip to the local kitchen appliance store manages to spin Mr. Divabetic’s life out of control in this year’s Divabetic Mystery podcast, Kill Me Madam, he relies on a food processor for help.

This handy kitchen gadget is used to finely chop pecans needed for the pie crust in his new dairy and gluten free Key Lime Pie recipe but what can it do for you?

Why do you need a food processor?

Food processors are great for blending, but what many people with diabetes don’t realize is that they’re ideal for coarser jobs, too. You can certainly use your food processor to make smooth, well-mixed hummus or other bean dips, but you can also use them to for simple prep tasks. It’s an extremely powerful knife that quickly chops and grinds different ingredients, from onions to to nuts to hard cheeses, in a matter of seconds.

Here’s one of Divabetic’s favorite food processors:

The Cuisinart Elemental 11 Cup Food Processor lets you quickly and easily prepare large portions of ingredients for meals with minimum effort. The generous 11 cup work bowl, make this food processor the ultimate timesaver for your favorite dishes, making quick work of everything from chopping nuts and puréeing soup to slicing tomatoes and shredding cheese. Another time saver – the rubberized touchpad with Pulse control is wipe-clean and the removable parts are dishwasher safe!

The Cuisinart Elemental 11 cup food processor allows you to quickly and easily prep larger portions of ingredients for bigger meals with minimum effort. With an 11 cup work bowl, 1 stainless steel blade and 2 discs, it’s the ultimate timesaver, making quick work of everything from chopping nuts and pureeing soup to slicing tomatoes and shredding cheese. The rubberized touchpad with pulse control offers the ease of use and versatility that makes this classic the favorite of creative home cooks! The removable parts are dishwasher safe too.

Amazon Price: $149.00

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The power of pecans is true! When it comes to stabilizing blood sugar, polyunsaturated fats in tree nuts — such as pecans along with almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts, and pistachios — are especially beneficial. They’re also loaded with fiber and protein to help with heart health.

**Gingerbread Men Prefer Blondes Mystery Podcast from 2019**

Enjoy Divabetic’s 6th Annual Diabetes Mystery Podcast, Gingerbread Men Prefer Blondes. The mystery is set in the fictitiously decadent world-renowned Gingerbread Men Cookie Baking Competition in New York’s Central Park Zoo. Mr. Divabetic’s healthy culinary misadventures continue in this year’s escapade as he enters the competition with headless cookies and pureed kale hot cocoa for the judges to sample. As if this dreadful combination wasn’t bad enough to land him at the bottom of the throwdown, his mother, Mama Rose Marie, is accused of poisoning one of the celebrity judges! Things go from bad to worse when the snake phobic Mr. Divabetic hears about the giant python’s escape. Now, the happy healthcare host must decide to face his fear of snakes and recipe rejection or throw in his apron and risk getting caught up in another murder investigation.

Can Mr. Divabetic and his team of amateur sleuths hunt down the real killer and get Mama Rose Marie out of jail?

Will he be the next murder victim? Can he ever create an edible recipe?

The cast of Gingerbread Men Prefer Blondes features Mama Rose Marie, Best-Selling Author Tonya Kappes, the Charlie’s Angels of Outreach (Patricia Addie-Gentle RN, CDE and MaryAnn Nicolay BA, DTR), The Happy Diabetic Chef Robert Lewis, Seveda Williams, Coach The Cure’s Trisha Artman, Jillian Walsh, Wendy Radford, Dave Jones, Lorraine Brooks and Max Szadek. Throughout this podcast we will be featuring music from the original Broadway cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes courtesy of SONY MUSIC.

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08/31/201908/31/2019

Chef Robert Lewis Stars in Divabetic’s Mystery Podcast: Gingerbread Men Prefer Blondes

Chef Robert Lewis aka ‘The Happy Diabetic’ stars in Divabetic’s 6th Annual Diabetes Mystery Podcast, Gingerbread Men Prefer Blondes on Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 6 -7 PM, EST. Chef Robert portrays Former Councilman Skeeter Jones who introduced legislation on the Sugar Tax. The Sugar Tax is a tax or surcharge designed to reduce consumption of drinks with added sugar. Drinks covered under a Sugar Tax often include carbonated soft drinks, sports drinks, fruit juices and energy drinks.

The tax is a matter of public debate in many countries and beverage producers like Coca-Cola often oppose it. Advocates such as national medical associations and the World Health Organization believe the tax will discourage unhealthy diets and offset the growing economic costs of obesity

In a recent profile on the Everyday Diabetes website, Chef Robert Lewis aka ‘The Happy Diabetic’ admitted that he feared the worst for his own love of great food following his diagnosis with Type 2 Diabetes in 1998.

“I suspected that my days of good eating were over,” Lewis writes on his blog. “Yet, as I worked through my ups and downs, I came to realize that the selection of foods I could and should eat was vast and included many of my favorites. This motivated me to attempt to create delicious, diabetic-friendly dishes that were also easy to prepare.

Today he’s a man on the go! is a man on the go. When he’s not working as a director of training for 60 restaurants in the Midwest, he’s traveling around the country as a keynote speaker for Taking Control of Your Diabetes and/or hosting his own podcast, ‘The Happy Diabetic Kitchen Podcast’! Read more about Chef Robert Lewis aka ‘The Happy Diabetic’ in Diabetes Health Monitor magazine.

This year’s Divabetic Diabetes Mystery Podcast, Gingerbread Men Prefer Blondes, takes place at the fictitiously decadent world-renowned Gingerbread Men Cookie Baking Competition in New York’s Central Park Zoo. Mr. Divabetic’s culinary misadventures continue in this year’s escapade as he enters the competition with headless cookies and pureed kale hot cocoa for the judges to sample. As if this dreadful combination wasn’t bad enough to land him at the bottom of the throwdown, his mother, Mama Rose Marie, is accused of poisoning one of the celebrity judges. Things go from bad to worse when the snake phobic Mr. Divabetic hears about the giant python’s escape.

Now, the happy healthcare host must decide to face his fear of snakes and recipe rejection or throw in his apron and risk getting caught up in another murder investigation. Can Mr. Divabetic and his team of amateur sleuths hunt down the real killer and get Mama Rose Marie out of jail? Will he be the next murder victim? Can he ever create an edible recipe?

The cast of Gingerbread Men Prefer Blondesfeatures Mama Rose Marie, Best-Selling Author Tonya Kappes, the Charlie’s Angels of Outreach (Patricia Addie-Gentle RN, CDE and MaryAnn Nicolay BA, DTR), Chef Robert Lewis aka ‘The Happy Diabetic’, Seveda Williams, Trisha Artman, Catherine Schuller, Wendy Radford, Dave Jones, Lorraine Brooks and Max ‘Mr. Divabetic’ Szadek.

Throughout this podcast we will be featuring music from the original Broadway cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes featuring the iconic Carol Channing courtesy of SONY MUSIC.

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05/22/201905/22/2019

The Happy Diabetic’s Healthy Burger Topping Recipes

Walk into any Memorial Day cookout, and you’re likely to find burgers on the grill—few foods are as synonymous with grilling in the US.

From Italian-spiced Bruschetta toppings to South of the Border Salsa fixings, Chef Robert Lewis aka ‘The Happy Diabetic’ shares his favorite burger topping recipes for every taste this Memorial Day

“Ground chuck is my go-to. And it best has some fat!” says Dr. Chef Robert Lewis. “Ground chuck without fat means dry burgers. Let’s not go there. I tend to buy 80/20 ground chuck. 80% lean meant. 20% fat. Next, let’s add some flavor. Keep it simple, remember it’s all about turning ordinary ingredients into something extraordinary”

Chef Robert’s The Burger of LOVE Recipe

Ingredients (2 pounds of ground chuck):

1 Tablespoon garlic powder

1/4 tsp salt and pepper

1/2 TBS onion powder

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.

1 Tablespoon of French style mustard

1 raw egg to bind.

Directions: Mix all ingredients in a bowl. DO NOT OVER MIX all the ingredient. Divide the mixture into 8 balls. Then flatten it into a patty by compressing it with your hands. Make sure the patties are even this will help the meat to cook evenly cook evenly.

SERVING SIZE: This recipe creates about 8 patties. If you need less adjust recipe as needed!

The Happy Diabetic’s Temperature Guide: It’s easy to overcook burgers. I like to pull the burgers off the grill at around 155°F the carryover cooking will them past the 160°F we are aiming for. To take the guesswork out of cooking, I use a Thermometer ($10 .00)

California Dreaming Burger Toppings Recipe

2 thin slices avocado

2 T Fruit salsa

2 T shredded Monterey Jack cheese

Fruit salsa Ingredients:

1 Cup Tomato (small diced)

¼ Cup Cilantro (chopped)

1 Cup red Onion (small diced)

2 Teaspoons Lime Juice

1 cup diced kiwi, pineapple, strawberries mango

Caprese of LOVE Burger Toppings Recipe

1 ounce fresh buffalo mozzarella

1 t drizzle extra-virgin olive oil

2 slices of Roma tomato

2 basil leaf

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Southern Hospitably Burger Toppings Recipe

1 large cooked over easy egg

1 T fresh salsa

1/4 cup green leaf lettuce

1 T queso fresco

Fresh Salsa Burger Toppings Recipe

1 cup fresh tomatoes, diced

½ cup corn kernels, fresh (or frozen)

½ cup onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 T fresh squeezed lime juice

2 T fresh cilantro, finely chopped

Salt (to taste)

Not Too Much Sun Burger Toppings Recipe

2 T chopped sun-dried tomatoes

1/4 cup fresh spinach

1 ounce goat cheese

Tomato Pesto Lovers Burger Toppings Recipe

1 t of pesto

2 Roma tomato slices

1 T crumbled feta

5-6 leafs of fresh spinach

Bruschetta Burger Toppings Recipe

1 T olive oil

1 clove garlic chopped

1 pint grape tomatoes sliced in half or 1 medium tomato, diced

1/4 cup onion diced

6-8 large basil leaves chopped

1T Balsamic Vinegar

salt (to taste)

Directions

Stir together olive oil, chopped garlic, tomatoes, onion, and basil leaves. Add salt and top the burger.

Chef Robert Lewis aka ‘The Happy Diabetic’ has made it his mission to not only to be an ambassador of positivity for himself and his family (which includes 3 children and 6 grandchildren) but to also create amazing things in the kitchen for people of all walks of life to enjoy.

In a recent profile on the Everyday Diabetes website, Chef Robert Lewis admitted that he wasn’t going to let his diagnosis with Type 2 Diabetes get him down.

“When I started this personal journey as a type 2 in 1998, I determined right then and there that diabetes was not going to change my positive outlook on life! I have always looked for ways to bring joy to others,” says Chef Robert Lewis. “ As The Happy Diabetic, I work to bring hope as well as happy, healthy lifestyle strategies to people living with diabetes! Putting a positive spin on things will always help us get through the tough times together!”

Now The Happy Diabetic’s a man on a mission! When he’s not working as a director of training for 60 restaurants in the Midwest, he’s traveling around the country as a keynote speaker for Taking Control of Your Diabetes and/or hosting his own podcast, ‘The Happy Diabetic Kitchen Podcast’!

Mr. Divabetic hosts the new hilarious culinary podcast, Serve, Taste or Trash! Game. A delicious combination of crazy food challenges and fresh perspectives on the latest food trends.

Mr. Divabetic discusses easy ways to go from ‘Farm To Fabulous’ with co-founders, Debra Moser and Mitchell Berliner of Central Farm Markets and one of the market’s featured vendors.

Our Serve, Taste or Trash! Game challenge features jerusalem artichokes, kale and oranges. One lucky contestant must decide which choice they’d serve, which choice they’d taste and which one they’d trash. But will they regret their decision after hearing our guest culinary wizard’s mouthwatering recipes for each choice? Can low-sodium foods rate high in taste? Stay tuned.

Special guests include Wellness and Diabetes Coach, Ginger Vieira, the author of “Your Diabetes Science Experiment” and “Emotional Eating with Diabetes,” Co-founders of Central Farm Markets, Debra Moser and MeatCrafters owner, Mitchell Berliner, Chef Robert Lewis aka ‘The Happy Diabetic’, the ‘Queen of the Green’ Miss Aida Romaine and Laura from Chattanooga, TN who is living with diabetes.

This program aims to encourage kids of all ages to become more open-minded eaters.

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