When you don’t control the food agenda it’s hard to stay true to your eating ideals. Find out how one dedicated person survived a traditional holiday dinner, Texas-style, with the in-laws.
7-Recipes–Healthy and Tasty
Holiday Dinners: The Salad Strategy
If you care about weight maintenance, holiday dinners are where your resolve gets tested. Assuming there are any healthful options at all, it's most likely a gloppy coleslaw, tray of cold raw vegetables with ranch dressing, or whatever other tasteless nod to...
Creamy Roasted Pear and Butternut Squash Soup
Talk about winter comfort food! Although it may sound unusual, the squash-pear combo makes a delightfully luscious soup base or pasta sauce to serve over whole grain ravioli or tortellini.
Officially End of Summer Dishes
Don’t settle for bland vegetables. As JaneSpice.com puts it:
Autumn Eating: Wilted Salad Recipe with Cool Weather Mizuna
A perfect salad to accommodate autumn’s in-between weather and use up the last of summer’s goodies with some of the cooler weather crops now coming in. Find out about mizuna, stir-frying monster cucumbers and how to wilt a salad.
How to Make the Best Brown Rice . . .
Think brown rice doesn’t taste as good as white? Try these flavor-boosting tricks and you’ll be loving your whole grains.
Women, Weight and Protein
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.
Looking for a Quick Lunch?
When a dish comes out well, I like to think it’s due to my brilliance as a cook. But more often than not, good, carefully selected ingredients are the true stars. This recipe is a perfect example of one that’s all about the ingredients. No cooking skill required.
Using Frozen Veggies: Creamy Gingered Peas and White Fish
Yesterday's post offered advice for dealing with "vegetable exhaustion:" Take a break every now and then by using frozen vegetables, which require little to no prep time. Here's a great, "take-a-break" one dish meal, made easy with not only frozen peas, but also a...
Easy Entertaining: Build Your Own Taco Bar
For entertaining, there's nothing like a bar--a food bar, that is. Food bars don't require gourmet cooking skills; just set out bowls of components. They also make it easy to navigate the myriad food preferences, sensitivities and allergies typical in groups these...
Mexican Rice (made with brown rice)
Since this recipe uses brown rice rather than white, it's made like a fried rice. The vegetables would turn to complete mush if they were simmered with the brown rice until it was done. Instead, the vegetables are sauteed briefly before being fried with day-old...
Kale Cooking Lessons
What’s the best way to cook kale? Saute? Blanch? And how can you use it once it’s cooked?