You can make Indian spiced cauliflower soup, and you should it’s that good, healthy and low-cal.

A habit brews in my refrigerator.  Buying cauliflower with the intention of eating it raw to get my cruciferous on, and time after time it turns brown before I can eat one more bite.  Another [...]]]>

You can make Indian spiced cauliflower soup, and you should it’s that good, healthy and low-cal.

A habit brews in my refrigerator.  Buying cauliflower with the intention of eating it raw to get my cruciferous on, and time after time it turns brown before I can eat one more bite.  Another soup to the rescue, yet this recipe is so good it deserves more purpose than saving a nearly turned vegetable from the garbage graveyard.

Vegetable miracle worker, Alice Waters, author of my almost favorite cookbook, brings cauliflower to life with a decent blend of simple Indian spices topped with a Greek yogurt dollop and shards of mint.  Exotic flavors abound.(...)
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Loving the breakfast cookie trend – take a bite of this, this, and this - kids think they’re getting something decadent for breakfast and you exert nothing more than a freezer-to-microwave maneuver.  Carnival Cookies, they’re called and are the brilliant creation from natural food cookbook author, Heidi Swanson.  The thing about Heidi, [...]]]>

Loving the breakfast cookie trend – take a bite of this, this, and this - kids think they’re getting something decadent for breakfast and you exert nothing more than a freezer-to-microwave maneuver.  Carnival Cookies, they’re called and are the brilliant creation from natural food cookbook author, Heidi Swanson.  The thing about Heidi, if you don’t know, is her commitment to ingredients that are as clean as possible. And many of her recipes are gluten-free.  You might have to pick up a few ingredients that most definitely are not in the average pantry, but well worth the effort as we lean into unprocessed diets.  I offer replacements, but dare you to try coconut oil or almond meal.  (...)
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We were skiing with my sister and her family in this town and for a last-minute dinner she pulled out homemade tuna burgers from the freezer.  Maybe my expectations were low, maybe my appetite was high, maybe it was the altitude, but I devoured this previously-frozen protein that she cooked up [...]]]>

We were skiing with my sister and her family in this town and for a last-minute dinner she pulled out homemade tuna burgers from the freezer.  Maybe my expectations were low, maybe my appetite was high, maybe it was the altitude, but I devoured this previously-frozen protein that she cooked up in a flash.  Talk about dinner options at your fingertips. When I returned home, it was all I could do to hunt down the recipe and freezing supplies to have the same luxurious meal available in my kitchen.  Not can share with you another genius idea from my sister (and her friend John with the help of their friend Gwyneth, the goop, Paltrow): gourmet burgers prepared in batches and vac-sealed for later. (...)
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While testing recipes from an upcoming book for  author and blogger extraodinaire who brought us this crunchtime recipe, the soba noodle entered our kitchen in a big way.  My prior dismissiveness of this super-charged food came from thinking it was another carb that doesn’t belong on my plate.  I was wrong.

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While testing recipes from an upcoming book for  author and blogger extraodinaire who brought us this crunchtime recipe, the soba noodle entered our kitchen in a big way.  My prior dismissiveness of this super-charged food came from thinking it was another carb that doesn’t belong on my plate.  I was wrong.

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This is a story about a best friend, a birthday cele-vacation, and vegetables with hummus.  She and I worked at this place while veejays still roamed the halls and snookies were something you sent in a gift basket. When asked what was it like to work at MTV, the saying [...]]]>

This is a story about a best friend, a birthday cele-vacation, and vegetables with hummus.  She and I worked at this place while veejays still roamed the halls and snookies were something you sent in a gift basket. When asked what was it like to work at MTV, the saying was, “It’s like dating the most popular boy in high school. He treats you like shit, but at least you’re dating him.”

We were The Suits (without suits) of the network. The dress code according President T.Freston was no full frontal nudity. One year, the execs got all McKinsey on us and reengineered our division, resulting in excessive staffing of specialists to serve clients.  It was the 90′s. With new staff came the need for team building exercises, which takes us to a sulfur infested inlet near Key West, Florida.

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Found under SuperFast entrées in this favorite publication, this recipe had everything going for it. I said yes, please.  If you don’t think scallops are your thing or maybe they’re to hard to come buy, I ask you to reconsider understanding that this powerful protein packed mollusk is low-fat, low-cholesterhol [...]]]>

Found under SuperFast entrées in this favorite publication, this recipe had everything going for it. I said yes, please.  If you don’t think scallops are your thing or maybe they’re to hard to come buy, I ask you to reconsider understanding that this powerful protein packed mollusk is low-fat, low-cholesterhol and loaded with omega 3′s. And if I’m seeming like Mitt Romney ignoring the pricier side of scallops, let me suggest that if you keep portions to the recommended 4-6 oz protein serving size, buy on sale or frozen, scallops are more affordable.  And as we like to say, repeat after me…”pay the farmer now, or the doctor later.” (...)
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We love chili at crunchtime and for good reason. Savory chili is a one-pot meal, it’s freezer friendly, hard to mess up, and relies on two foods that are a-okay in cans.  When this recipe arrived on our Healthy Dinner Tonight fax from epicurious, its righteous balance of proteins and [...]]]>  

We love chili at crunchtime and for good reason. Savory chili is a one-pot meal, it’s freezer friendly, hard to mess up, and relies on two foods that are a-okay in cans.  When this recipe arrived on our Healthy Dinner Tonight fax from epicurious, its righteous balance of proteins and vegetables spoke to us.

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Another book is out praising the French for their approach to food only this one focuses on children and has stirred up a debate of whether French make better parents. According to the American author, who raised her kids in Paris, French kids readily eat nearly all vegetables without complaint [...]]]>

Another book is out praising the French for their approach to food only this one focuses on children and has stirred up a debate of whether French make better parents. According to the American author, who raised her kids in Paris, French kids readily eat nearly all vegetables without complaint because at an early age they acquire a taste.  It’s the persistence, not the demands, that give French children a chance to learn to like vegetables.  Would they rather eat cake? Oui. But they also eat vegetables…did I say without complaint?

As an American, I’ll go right to a popular French sweet after school snack that makes its way to breakfast thanks to the masterful chef and ex-pat living in Paris, Dorie Greenspan, who offered a quick breakfast idea that would make even the French take notice.

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An author once told me that much to her objection, publishers made her put the word Diet in the title of her book or it would not sell. I assume the same happened to the authors of another book I’ve discovered thanks to my dad, who lemmings after all things [...]]]>

An author once told me that much to her objection, publishers made her put the word Diet in the title of her book or it would not sell. I assume the same happened to the authors of another book I’ve discovered thanks to my dad, who lemmings after all things Mayo Clinic.

The Mayo Clinic Diet book to me reads like a lifestyle meal plan rather than a gimmicky diet.  Sure there’s a two week kick-starter plan, scolding restrictions (like no eating in front of TV), journaling, recipes, but it all ends

with(spoiler alert)……

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The very moment my food-enunciating paranoia hit was when I was on a date with a blue blood type boyfriend, whose parents challenged me with culinary tests like eating whole lobster and using sauce spoons. At an unpretentious restaurant while we glanced over the menu, he displayed a rare moment [...]]]>

The very moment my food-enunciating paranoia hit was when I was on a date with a blue blood type boyfriend, whose parents challenged me with culinary tests like eating whole lobster and using sauce spoons. At an unpretentious restaurant while we glanced over the menu, he displayed a rare moment of seeming humility and asked me how to pronounce… and he pointed to this word –  gnocchi.  Trying to show an upper hand for once, I boldly guessed – not from my knowledge of gnawing and gnarly – but rather my uncultured assumptions that this word was foreign and thus would be spoken with a hard g as in… nothing else I knew of.  Are you envisioning this scene. “It’s ga – nyo – key,” I said.  He took it in and when the waiter asked for his order he said, “I’ll have the nyo-key [with a silent g that screamed idiot].” The only test I didn’t fail with this guy was the one that challenged me on whether to stay with him or not.

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