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Make a Simple Salad Special

3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Herbs & Spices, Uncategorized

It seems like I buy at least a couple bottles of salad dressing every time I go to the store.  And it seems like I’m knee-deep in salad dressing every time I’m pawing through the pantry looking for something else.  So it seems like I should have had some...

Using Herbs and Spices: More on Flavor Families

Food, Herbs & Spices, New Ingredients

This multiple-entry post on herbs and spices was sparked by Julee Rosso’s recipe for Beef Stew with Eggplant (Great Good Food, p. 487).  Its unusual combination of spices ignited an entire exploration into using herbs and spices more often and more creatively. On the...

Is it OK to use the garlic and ginger that comes in jars?

Food, Healthy Pantry Know-How, Herbs & Spices

Those little jars of prepared garlic and ginger are so completely convenient!  No fussing with paper-thin garlic peels, no paring gnarly knobs of ginger or endangering fingers on the ginger grater and no garlic-smelling hands for the rest of the night.  But is it OK...

Comfort Stew: Beef Daube Provencal

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Building Block Techniques, Herbs & Spices, Uncategorized

Recipe for Beef Daube Provencal This is the slow cooker version.  See the notes below if you prefer to make it stovetop, as I did. What to have with this stew?  I was hankering for mashed potatoes, which is why I cooked the stew on the stovetop.  That freed up the...

Mary’s on Fox 31–Quick Tricks for Fast Gourmet Green Beans

7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Food News, Herbs & Spices, Uncategorized

I’ll be on TV again tomorrow, just one day before Thanksgiving with ideas for how to make a dish festive without a lot of fuss. We all know that Thanksgiving can be a huge undertaking.  To keep from getting overwhelmed, it’s nice to plan a couple dishes on...

Kitchen Coach on TV–Whips Together an Appetizer with a Difference

7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Food News, Herbs & Spices, Uncategorized

Kitchen Coach Mary Collette is doing a Holiday Cooking series for Fox 31 in Denver.  Her first appearance was last Friday, November 21, when she and host Ken Clark made an appetizer tray featuring: Rosemary Yam Butter Sauteed (or Roasted) Red Pepper Strips Whole Grain...
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