Quick Question: What's languishing, all but forgotten, on the condiment shelf in almost all our refrigerators? Mustard, of course! Poor mustard waits patiently for hamburger nights but you can almost hear it begging for more: "Give me a chance! I can do so much more...
People learn I'm in the healthy eating field and assume I must cook all sorts of fabulous meals, all the time. Hardly the case at all! Fully 50% of my meals are simple skillets: Saute an onion and garlic, add some veggies and a protein and serve soup style with broth...
By the time I get home from grocery shopping, I just want to put things away and get on with the rest of my day or evening. But if there is cilantro or parsley in my shopping bags, I force myself to wash them immediately and set them to dry in a colander for the rest...
I think it's fair to say that I have A LOT of garlic! It all came courtesy of my farm share, but I don't mind a bit. Garlic is a great addition to almost any dish and can be expensive at the grocery store. The variety in my garlic stash is called hardneck because of...
Green and Gold Summer Vegetables A big part of Meal Making Transformation is learning how to simplify healthy meal making without sacrificing flavor. Check out the 4 techniques in this picture recipe for bumping up the flavor in of your dishes. Technique #1: Combine...
This salad features canned and frozen mix-ins. While these convenient foods are a good way to quickly perk up a salad, they’re also great for adding color, texture and heartiness to salads in the winter months, when tomatoes, cucumbers and other common salad standbys are out of season (and are therefore quite expensive and not very tasty.)
Never thought I’d have a kitchen full of Tupperware, but I’m a convert now that I’ve seen how these containers make it easy to find, access and cook with the healthful ingredients experts are telling us to eat.
Yesterday's post talked about parsley's superfood status and why that should come as no surprise since all real foods are good for us. Start getting more of parsley's goodness into your diet with this quick and versatile pesto that tastes great on everything from...
Don’t settle for bland vegetables. As JaneSpice.com puts it:
Did you know there’s a connection between what’s in your pantry and what’s on your thighs? It’s true, so pay attention to this often overlooked part of the kitchen–not only to what’s there, but also to what’s not there–like high-quality canned chicken that can stave off a hunger attack in a hurry.
Try to chop a waterlogged bunch of herbs and it turns into a mess of green slush. This trick spin dries herbs quickly–using citrus bags that would otherwise end up in the landfill!
Check out this great new 2-for-1 find: A vegetable scrubber + fresh herb colander for just $3.50 Although I'm a still big fan of my $2.50 nail scrubber from the cleaning supply store, I put the "Veggie Scrub" to the test on Jerusalem artichokes (also known as...