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Building Your “Tasting Muscles”–and Putting Them to Good Use

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, 5-New Kitchen Thinking, Local and Sustainable Eating, Weight Loss

The ill consequences of our couch potato culture aren’t limited to flabby abs and saggy triceps.  All the homogenized foods that comprise the bulk of our diet have gradually eroded our “tasting muscles,” too. Never knew you had tasting muscles? ...

Bad Boy Bacon VS. The Cheese Danish

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, 5-New Kitchen Thinking, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, How to Be "Marketing-Wise", Local and Sustainable Eating, The Simple Prescription for Good Eating

What a way to stir up controversy, angst and anxiety:  At a health fair last week, we demonstrated Spinach Sauteed with Pears and Bacon.  Yes, you read that right.  We made a dish featuring none other than bad boy bacon.  Not turkey bacon, not a vegetarian imitation,...

Creamy Roasted Pear and Butternut Squash Soup

7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Local and Sustainable Eating, Time Saving Tips and Tricks

Although this recipe starts by roasting the pears and squash, these ingredients can be roasted in advance to save time.  Roast a big batch for dinner one night, then a couple nights later, making this soup will be a cinch.  Although it may sound unusual, the...

Officially End of Summer Dishes

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Herbs & Spices, Local and Sustainable Eating, Seasonal Eating

Two Farewell Dishes to the Late-Summer/Early Autumn Vegetables A few yellow summer squash are still dribbling in from my garden.   The previous post’s “vegetables-as-afterthought” approach would have us serving them sauteed.  Period.  Too bad.  Just...

Processed Foods: The Good, the Bad and When to Break the Rules

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, 5-New Kitchen Thinking, Local and Sustainable Eating, The Simple Prescription for Good Eating

If there’s a reliable dietary culprit, “processed food” would be it.  Whether the concern is excess fat, high sodium, too many transfats, sugar overdosing or cancer-causing chemicals, processed foods are high on the list of primary perpetrators. ...

Autumn Eating: Wilted Salad Recipe with Cool Weather Mizuna

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Building Block Techniques, Local and Sustainable Eating, Seasonal Eating, Uncategorized

Change is in the air, and as the hot days of summer give way to winter’s cold, it’s natural to start craving warmer foods.  The trouble of course, lies in autumn’s in-between weather:  one day cool, the next warm.  Wilted salads are the perfect...
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