Looking for quick lunches that are wholesome, too? The frozen foods aisle has a good selection of real, whole foods all washed, cut and ready to pop in the microwave. Combine with a few strategic deli purchases and ready made sauces for a meal that’s faster than fast food but still tasty, fresh and healthful.
Need a Fast Dinner or Lunch? Make Creative Use of Your Refrigerator's Treasures I promise to stop talking about beets--but not yet. After our final class on beet relish last night at Isabelle Farm, I came home with another pile of beet greens--my third in as many...
Think organics are too expensive? Try this on for size: What if, every time you purchased an organic vegetable, you actually got not just one but two or three vegetables? No doubt that would make the economic equation a lot more attractive.
Want to make organic vegetables more affordable? Use every part of the vegetable and double your vegetable dollars, as in this recipe that uses beet greens.
Could relish-making be the key for busy people who want nutritious meals without spending a lot of time in the kitchen? Time to move it from quaint and old-fashioned and into the category of vital skills for healthy eaters.
Food storage containers don’t rank in the A-list of kitchen gadgets like sleek Kitchen Aid stand mixers and shiny All-Clad cookware. But hear this: If you are interested in meals with any of these attributes–healthy, efficient, affordable, stress-free and/or tasty–then you need decent storage containers. The yogurt cups and take out tubs can (mostly) be recycled so get a set of sturdy containers that will last for years. Read more on the benefit.
For a recent magazine article, Martha Stewart was asked how often she orders take out. Her response was something like a couple times over the last 15 years.
Fact is, there are people “out there” who make healthy, good-tasting meals night after night like it’s no big deal. What do they know that most people don’t?
If you can’t find relaxation time, consider that time making meals can double as stress-relief time
Turning hard grain kernels into soft baking flour I have a fondness for things that have withstood the test of time--like Farmer John's grain mill. Manufactured in the 1940s and having traveled across three states before landing in Colorado, the mill is still in fine...
Spinach will be in season for another couple weeks. Try it a new way in this skillet souffle, which is made on the stovetop to avoid heating up the oven now that summer is here. The salmon addition is optional. The tomato jam topping is a nice, low-cal and dairy...
What Not to Do When Cooking Opportunities for humility are never in short supply. In a recent class, a participant brought up the perennial problem of cooking failures. My response began with the reassurance that cooking disasters don't really happen that often, so...
Problem: You’re having rice for dinner, again. Solution: Jazz up grains with seasonal garlic scapes.