Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Please pass the lemongrass
For centuries, lemongrass has been used as an herb in kitchens across the world for its citrusy fragrance and flavor. Lemongrass lends a wonderful mild lemon taste to Pad Thai and other Asian dishes. It’s fabulous in vegetable stocks and delightful in curry. But the kitchen isn’t the only place where lemongrass is used. If […]
Food For Thought: Wash what you eat!
Unless you have grown a fruit or vegetable yourself, in your own organic veggie patch, I would hope that you’re giving your produce a good thorough wash before eating it. There are a couple of good reasons why you should be washing your fruits and vegetables- even organic produce. First of all, you really don’t […]
Healthy Foods: No nutrition escapes fresh Garlic Scapes
This time of year, you may start seeing garlic scapes at the market. A garlic scape is the beautiful, curled stalk that grows from garlic bulbs before they start to flower. They look a lot like green onions, except the coiled end of the garlic scape resembles a pig’s tail! These scapes taste similar to […]
Chicken with Lemon Lychee Glaze
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Dinner Diva: How to roast a whole chicken
For many new chefs, roasting a whole chicken can be an intimidating task. But, really, there are few things that are as easy to pull off (or impressive) in the kitchen as a juicy roasted chicken. The most important thing is to start with local organic free-range poultry whenever possible. I always reach for smaller […]
Lemony Dragon Fruit Juice
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Should you supplement with L-Glutamine?
I’ve written about amino acids before and about how they quite literally are the building blocks of proteins. There are hundreds of amino acids. Eight of them must be taken in via diet (those are considered essential amino acids) and others are made by the body itself (considered non-essential). L-glutamine is a non-essential amino acid, […]
Dinner Diva: Think Outside the Side Dish
How many of us live in households where the dinner plate consists of a serving of meat, starch, and a small portion of vegetables? Now that I eat a Paleo diet, my plate looks a lot different than it once did. No longer do we eat rice, couscous or pasta at my house. When you […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Who wants wasabi?
Nothing can clear the sinuses quite like a good bite of wasabi! Wasabi belongs to the same family as cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli so we know it must be a healthy food. The sawa wasabi plant grows naturally in China and Japan, in the gravel beds of mountain streams, or in swampy areas. You might […]