Dinner Diva: Shining the light on nightshades
Are you familiar with the Solanaceae family? No, they aren’t the neighbors of the Sopranos! The Solanaceae family is more commonly known as the nightshade family. Its name has lots of folks assuming that these foods are grown in the dark of night with fairies waving their magic wands over them removing any need for […]
Dinner Diva: The scoop on dietary lectins
Dietary lectins are most likely not on your radar screen. Not unless you’re fairly heavily involved in the world of food science and/or nutrition in general, anyway. Most everyday people don’t know about lectins and neither do many doctors! Considering the damage these nasty little boogers can do, that’s really not so good. So what […]
Dinner Diva: The Paleo diet and your kids
I feel SO amazing since transitioning to a paleolithic way of eating. I feel even better than I did when I was a teenager. Honestly, I wish I knew more about about the benefits of avoiding grains, dairy, gluten, and legumes back when my kids were little! Let me back up for a minute here […]
Dinner Diva: Something to chew on
You take much care to choose healthy foods that will do your body good and you carefully prepare those foods into delicious meals. Why negate any of that effort by mindlessly stuffing food into your mouth? One thing many of us are guilty of forgetting is that digestion starts with saliva. We eat so quickly […]
Dinner Diva: Lessons from the hive
Dear Friends, Today I was contemplating the big honey extraction coming up at the end of this month from our hives. The hives are positively buzzing with excitement (forgive me, but prepare yourselves, this probably isn’t the last of the play on words, LOL) and the sweet reward of what’s to come has everyone excited, […]
Dinner Diva: Skip the supermarket this week!
I have a challenge for you this week if you dare. Actually, I am going to double-dog dare you to try this. Skip the supermarket this week. That’s right. SKIP. IT. Instead, go to the farmer’s market and buy all you can of their freshly grown local produce, purchase the farm fresh eggs and the […]
Dinner Diva: There’s nothing like it
This is the time of year when green thumbs and gardening novices alike storm the home improvement store’s gardening section and attempt to start a vegetable garden. It’s an old tradition to plant a summer garden. And while it may seem a tad romantic to have a Martha Stewart-styled vegetable garden, for many people it […]
Dinner Diva: Where does your garden grow?
Todd Jones had a dream that food, good food (the kind you grow in the ground), could be more readily available to more people, especially people who have little access to fresh food. So last June, he started a personal farming service in the suburbs with the assumption that if people didn’t have the time, […]
Dinner Diva: Indulge in Summer’s Sweetness
Everything is just coming into season—luscious peaches, plums, berries, and melons. Not only are they in season, but they’re also the least expensive right now—especially if you’re lucky enough to happen upon a little produce stand or someone selling melons in the back of a truck. In the more rural South, it’s not unusual to […]