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Seattle chef Tom Douglas had a special holiday “shoestring” budget of $80 to work with, on The Early Show.

From time to time we have recipes that call for setting something on fire. Food editor Melissa Roberts shows you how a common pantry item can come to your aid when you need to flambé.

Natural News has an kindly published an excerpt from an interview I did with Kevin Gianni’s Renegade Roundtable, (thx Amy). In the excerpt, Dhrumil Purohit (that’s me) talks about what it means to have a beautiful relationship with food and how to deal with cravings.

You can read the excerpt at NaturalNews.com

If the excerpt makes no sense what so ever, which occasionally happens when I get really excited, check out this essay that I wrote for WLIR that covers the same topic, but with a little more clarity: Struggle vs Challenge: my road to completion

Big ups to Kevin G and Mike Adams for all the great things they are doing in the world of natural health.

Disqus is a third-party blog commenting system. We’ve been using it here at WLIR for 11 months to host all of our blog comments. It’s simple to use, it has a ton of cool features and more blogs are singing up to use it everyday.

Most blog commenting systems, like those on wordpress, typepad and blogger, aren’t very easy to use. They all have their own sign-ons, their interface is often cluncky and they lack the ability for people to reply directly to one another in comment threads.

Disqus not only allows commenters to reply directly to one another, but it also:

• Does a way better job blocking spam comments
• Allows blog owners and commenters to reply to comments directly via email (my favorite feature!)
• Allows blog owners to block the ip addresses of ego’s with malicious intent
• Allows bloggers to re-blog great comments they see on their site

And it allows your readers to share the same sign-on/avatar for other sites that also use Disqus. That means less logging in and out to blogs to share your opinion!

We use Disqus here, but there tons of other blogs that use it too. Including a few other health blogs like, Crazy Sexy Cancer by Kris Carr and Raw Model by Anthony Anderson to mention two!

Before I installed Disqus on WLIR, posts would average about 3 comments each. Now, we’re easily averaging 10 comments a post with about two posts a week getting 20+ comments. A lot of that is due to the fact that I’m participating in commenting more often than I use to because makes it easier to do so.

Disqus won’t make you a better writer : ) but it will make you and your readers better commenters.

Here are a few great raw food blogs that I’d love to see using Disqus in the next few weeks:

• Raw Food Coach by Karen Knowler
• Raw Food Right Now by Heidi and Justin
• Debbie Does Raw by Debbie Young
• Real Food Tulsa by Penni Shelton
• Wyldegirl by Jenny Nelson
• Bunny Berry by Beth Berry
• Rawdorable by Shannon Marrie

Here’s to great conversations!

p.s. Install is easy, but if you need help, feel free to holla at your boy!

Miracle Fruit Berry contains a harmless glycoprotein which temporarily gently binds to the tongue’s taste buds, causing bitter and sour foods (such as lemons and limes) consumed later to taste sweet. It can also be used to prepare sugar free desserts.

A healthy food review of Hostess 100 calorie muffins and Hostess 100 calorie cupcakes. Are they worth opening your wallet for? Also, the issue of trans fat, and how the government allows foods to be labeled as “zero grams of trans fat” when they really aren’t, is discussed.

When I lived in Colorado, I learned the importance of staying hydrated due to the dry, mile-high elevation as I worked out, and now that I live in the desert dryness and heat in Las Vegas, I carried that need to stay hydrated when I work out with me. But if you are watching your calories, you can’t just choose any hydration drink. Pick the wrong one and you can end up downing the equivalent calories to a bottle of regular soda in the neighborhood of 200-300 calories!

Like Italian food but trying to lose weight? My “Healthy Chicken Parmesan” is the perfect alternative for you!

A fun review of Weight Watchers ice cream sundaes and ice cream cups. Find out if they are worth opening your wallet for!

Two soup recipes that use no meat or meat broth. One is an egg soup and the other is a tomato carrot soup. Both are suitable for diabetics.