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Recipe: Skillet Souffle with Spinach, Smoked Salmon & Tomato Jam Topping
Spinach will be in season for another couple weeks. Try it a new way in this skillet souffle, which is made on the stovetop to avoid heating up the oven now that summer is here. The salmon addition is optional. The tomato jam topping is a nice, low-cal and dairy...
Cooking Disasters and Ugly Soup
What Not to Do When Cooking Opportunities for humility are never in short supply. In a recent class, a participant brought up the perennial problem of cooking failures. My response began with the reassurance that cooking disasters don't really happen that often, so...
Recipe: Millet (or Rice) with Garlic Scapes
Problem: You’re having rice for dinner, again. Solution: Jazz up grains with seasonal garlic scapes.
Getting to Know Quinoa
. . . and other healthful, wonderful (but sometimes strange) new foods "I was so proud of myself. I wanted to begin eating some healthier foods so I tried quinoa. But it wasn't that good--it just didn't taste like much." While I'm doing quick and healthy cooking...
Imagine Your Way to a Healthy Eating Lifestyle
Super Foods can sound like a great idea–but when it’s 5:30 and you’re starved, fast, convenient, cheap processed foods beat them to the table. Ready for a winning strategy for Super Foods? Start with your imagination.
Kitchen Tip: Making Produce Safe to Eat
Just about the time salmonella and E. coli fade from the headlines, it seems like some new contamination case surfaces, putting us right back on edge about the safety of our food. Learn the simplest and most effective way reduce and even eliminate contamination on produce.
Recipe: Winter Squash Patties
About this time of year, most of us have some winter squashes kicking around, waiting to be used up before spring. Here's a great way to put them to good use. Simply roast up a double batch for dinner one night and then, a couple nights later, you'll be set to make...
How Good Imagination Leads to Healthy Eating
It's tough to adopt a new lifestyle if you can't at least hold it in your imagination. Unless something very unusual happened this year, a good number of us reiterated resolutions having to do with "eating better." Would you like to end this year having actually...
Food Day a Good Day for Food Thought
Alabama is having trouble getting its produce picked. As reported in the Camera on Friday, Alabama's tough immigration law has frightened most Hispanic workers out of the state. But American workers are not picking up the slack. "Americans simply don't want the...
In the News: Talkin’ Skinny but Eatin’ Fat
Article Chronicles America's Trouble Putting Healthy Words into Everyday Actions Virtue has always been hard to embody, and healthful eating is no exception. As a recent article summed it up: Even though restaurant menus now broadcast the nutritional damage...
Mary’s Every Year Autumn Musings
Ever feel like the ball at the end of a cue stick, getting blasted from one end of the pool table to the other? The entire meaning of things seems to be getting through one event so you can make it on time to the next. This is what "disconnected" feels like to me. ...
Recipe: Breaded Eggplant with Herbed Tomato Topping
Breading is a good way to begin getting to know eggplant, since the breadcrumb coating adds familiar flavor and a nice texture. Those who are experienced eggplant eaters will also like the possibilities presented by a nice breaded eggplant fillet. Layer, roll or top...