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.
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Recipe: Sauteed Beet Greens composed with Toasted Walnuts, Bacon Bits, & Chopped Egg
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.
The Beauty of Relishes
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.
Kitchen Essentials: The Humble Storage Container
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.
Best Practice Secrets of Good Every Day Cooks
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?
Brain Eating Stress and the Cooking Solution
If you can’t find relaxation time, consider that time making meals can double as stress-relief time
The Special Beauty of Old Things
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...
Recipe: Skillet Souffle with Spinach, Smoked Salmon & Tomato Jam Topping
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...
Cooking Disasters and Ugly Soup
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...
Recipe: Millet (or Rice) with Garlic Scapes
Problem: You’re having rice for dinner, again. Solution: Jazz up grains with seasonal garlic scapes.
Getting to Know Quinoa
. . . and other healthful, wonderful (but sometimes strange) new foods "I was so proud of myself. I wanted to begin eating some healthier foods so I tried quinoa. But it wasn't that good--it just didn't taste like much." While I'm doing quick and healthy cooking...
Recipe: Winter Squash Patties
About this time of year, most of us have some winter squashes kicking around, waiting to be used up before spring. Here's a great way to put them to good use. Simply roast up a double batch for dinner one night and then, a couple nights later, you'll be set to make...