Food For Thought: Viva Italia! Gluten-Free!

Italian food is some of the best food in the entire world. And while it seems the whole world is going gluten-free, there are some who think that Italian is out of reach, au contraire! This delicious Chicken Parmesan dish will work, either way, so gluten-free folk, don’t feel sad! Enjoy! PS–You can receive delicious […]

Food For Thought: Dinner Diva Doles Out Advice

My alter ego, the Dinner Diva has a gig on the side that I JUST found out about. It seems the Dinner Diva decided she was fit to dole out advice in the same fashion as Dear Abby and has been helping the whiny and the lost with all their menu-planning woes. Let’s take a […]

Food For Thought: Stick to Your Skillet

The skillet is one of the best inventions since (yeah, I’ll use that food metaphor), sliced bread. This wonder of precision-crafted metal can handle your dinner with ease and gives you the extra bonus of being easy on the clean-up, too. As simple and wonderful as the crockpot is for making stews and soups, the […]

Food For Thought: Time to Get Organized!

As a cookbook writer and full-on foodie, you can imagine what my desk must look like. Yes, it is stacked with cookbooks, food magazines, and recipes torn from magazines, printed from the Internet, or scribbled furiously on my ever-present legal yellow pad. I have recipes; oh boy do have recipes. I had finally had enough […]

Food For Thought: Table Talk

Dear Friends, You’ve done the shopping, the chopping, the cooking, the serving, and assembled the whole family around the dinner table for a nice meal together. Now what? Sometimes getting good conversations started can be tougher than an overcooked steak (especially with teenagers). With hectic schedules, electronic devices, jobs, school, church, and other extracurricular activities […]

Food For Thought: Are Your Pots Too Big?

Dear Friends, Ever heard of the term “too much”? When it comes to buying food and keeping food in your pantry, fridge, and freezer, we have a tendency to become somewhat pack rattish. What we need to do is refocus and look at our needs, not our peculiar desire to shove food into every nook […]

Food For Thought: You Have a Choice

Dear Friends, In the everyday scheme of things, your quality of life is dependent on the choices you make. Really understanding the muscle of your own choices is totally empowering and has the capacity for realigning your life direction. Knowing who is in control and realizing that you don’t have to take your marching orders […]

Food For Thought: 10 Soup-er Tips

Dear Friends, One of the most wonderful comfort foods under the sun is soup and right now, we’re in the middle of Soup Season. Let me be clear, we’re talking real soup. Great big soup, not anemic wimpy soup that you can sip with a straw. I am not one of those that believes soup […]

Food For Thought: 3 Simple Steps to Avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup

Dear Friends, In the past, we’ve talked about good oils vs. bad oils, we’ve dished on transfats, and we’ve discussed artificial colorings, flavorings, and sugar substitutes. And if you’ve listened to my Blog Talk Radio Show (Wednesdays, at noon EST on FlyLady’s channel) you have no doubt heard me rail on high fructose corn syrup. […]