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Coconut Milk: Tips for Buying, Using and Storing

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Healthy Pantry Know-How, New Ingredients, Uncategorized

The previous post talked about sparking up mealtimes by weaving in recipes and dishes using new pantry ingredients.  Coconut milk is a great one to try:  creamy, rich and not at all expensive.  Here are some pointers to increase your comfort level with this new...

Pantry Stocking: Coconut Milk, Catch 22s . . .

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Easy Stress-Free Grocery Shopping, Healthy Pantry Know-How, New Ingredients

. . . and the Methodical Pantry Expansion Method Typical Complaint:  “I’m so tired of making the same old things for dinner.” Response:  Stock a few new and interesting pantry treasures to spark up mealtimes. Counter-complaint:  “But when I buy...

Frozen Veggies Can Be As (or More) Nutritious Than Fresh

3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, Healthy Pantry Know-How

After one of my Easy Everyday Cooking Classes, one participant wrote an alarmed message on her evaluation form:  “Why did you use frozen vegetables for the Cauliflower Tomato Curry?  I never eat anything but fresh!” My bad.  Not for using frozen veggies,...

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...

Pity the Poor Pantry

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, Easy Stress-Free Grocery Shopping, Healthy Pantry Know-How, Uncategorized

Invaluable Kitchen Resource Gets No Respect Pity the poor pantry.  It’s always getting lumped with all that old-time stuff our mothers (or grandmothers) did.  Remember the stuff they would drag out of the pantry?  Canned vegetables that tasted like cardboard and...

Pantries Aren’t Museums

Easy Stress-Free Grocery Shopping, Healthy Pantry Know-How, Uncategorized

How to Breathe Fresh Air Into Yours If we cringe at the word “pantry,” it could be a reaction to the staleness that seems to go hand in hand with both the pantry and its contents. “Pantry staples” sounds a bit dull to begin with. To make matters worse, our...
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