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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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