My name is Timothy Harlan and I am both a physician and a chef. This blog is a general collection of information and random ideas on eating great food and eating healthy.
I love living in New Orleans and there are some really good restaurants here. Fortunately, there are more locally owned restaurants here than big chains. Unfortunately, that means that when we want to review restaurants for you, we don’t have a lot of choices. Our [...]
I have had a lot of interesting feedback from my patients about this blog and my experiences with change in diet. I was unsure whether to continue and one patient encouraged me saying that she felt the dialogue was about a lot of [...]
Stuffed Shells with Marinara Sauce
and Manicotti with Marinara Sauce
I have a friend with Celiac disease and he’s one of the reasons we here at Dr. Gourmet started our section for those who need to eat gluten-free. We were having dinner together not too long ago, [...]
We’ve avoided reviewing veggie burgers for a long time, mostly because for years, vegetarian meat replacements have relied heavily on salt and fat to give them flavor. What’s (almost) worse, they just didn’t taste very good.
We’ve reviewed chicken nuggets a few times, and looking back over the reviews I can’t find any that we thought were worth eating. While I am not a fan of convenience foods, I do realize that people are going to eat them, but it seems [...]
We’ve had good luck with Organic Bistro brand frozen meals. Every one that has been put to the test fared well and has received a thumbs up. That’s rare for us. We’ve found time and again that you can’t always rely on a brand every [...]
If you look at the list of our reviews, it’s pretty clear that overall, the gluten-free options get better reviews than their more mainstream counterparts. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when the frozen meals designed for people with special dietary needs are so [...]
A while back we reviewed some frozen burritos with good results. One of the burritos, from a company that makes gluten free products under the brand Glutenfreeda (love that name), came in very highly ranked in our taste tests. At the time, only their Chicken and [...]