Tip, Trick & a Recipe: The ravishing watermelon radish

If you’ve ever walked past a watermelon radish at the grocery store, you probably did so not knowing how pretty this vegetable is when you get beyond the surface. The next time you encounter one of these unsuspecting round root vegetables, I encourage you to purchase one and give it a whirl. A relative of […]

Dinner Diva: Fall Foraging Primer

On the next sunny day, perhaps you’ll consider taking a nice long walk to forage for some wild fall edibles. There are plenty of nutritious foods just waiting to be plucked from trees or from the ground in the forest or a nearby meadow. Foraging is a very satisfying (and fun) activity. Plus you get […]

Healthy Foods: Love those cloves

It would appear as though pumpkin season is upon us once again. And I don’t know about you, but when I think pumpkin, I think warm fall spices. What would a pumpkin pie be without a hint of cloves? Ground cloves don’t just grow in those little tins, you know! This spice actually comes from […]

Dinner Diva: Add a new meat to your dinner plate. Game on!

There’s a lot more in the way of meat out there than pork, beef, and poultry. Venison, bison, rabbit, goat, and even alligator are all examples of readily available game meats (in most places). With the paleo way of eating running rampant in the country these days, and with one of the pillars of that […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: More to tapioca than pudding!

Many people are familiar with the creamy white dessert known as tapioca pudding, but there’s a lot more than that to the root of the cassava plant. In some countries, tapioca (which is essentially a root vegetable) is eaten as a main dish for a good source of energy that is low in cholesterol. Tapioca […]

Can you smell the sulfur veggies?

can you smell the sulfur veggies

Can you smell the sulfur veggies? I don’t know about you, but nobody ever told me to sit down and eat my sulfur-rich vegetables. Well, except for Dr. Terry Wahls in her hugely popular TED Talks video. (In case you aren’t familiar with this phenomenal doctor, she ate her way out of advanced MS through […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Few good grains left, but what about teff?

Teff is one of the smallest grains in the world, and it’s also one of the oldest, having been around for more than four thousand years. If you’re leading a gluten-free lifestyle, you may want to consider adding teff to your diet. Teff is a gluten-free grain-the seed of an Ethiopian grass-, which may be […]

Food For Thought: How to avoid the Freshmen 15

Many of us have been there. You go from being an active teenager who can eat anything and not gain a pound to a student at the end of your freshman year who can’t fit into half the clothes in your closet. Nobody wants that! Not only because we like to look and feel our […]

Healthy Foods: One of the good grains: Amaranth

If you’re pursuing a gluten-free lifestyle, you’ve probably come across amaranth on your travels. Amaranth is a teeny tiny seed that was eaten by the ancients. Today, we’re learning that this gluten-free grain is extremely nutritious, and this wee seed is making a long overdue comeback here in the western world. Amaranth contains a lot […]