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 […]

If you can’t stand the heat, use your freezer!

If you’re anything like me, sometimes you are just plain fed up with feeding people. Meal planning, grocery shopping, chopping, peeling, roasting, boiling, eating, coercing the children into eating their vegetables, cleaning up the pots and pans only to do the exact same thing again tomorrow. Getting a nourishing meal on the table at the […]

Dinner Diva: When school’s out for summer, start teaching about food!

Pop quiz: How do you get kids to eat just about anything? Answer: You get them involved in the kitchen. There’s no surefire guarantee that your kids will eat something they have had a hand in preparing, but it absolutely increases the odds of them trying and liking a dish. Get your kids right in […]

Food For Thought: For meat you will praise, learn how to braise!

If you always seem to end up with stringy, tough meat that you can’t get a knife through (let alone your teeth), you can only blame the animal and/or the cut for so long! I firmly believe that with the right cooking method, you can turn the most humble of cuts into a star. Braising […]

Food For Thought: Sprouting healthy thoughts

There’s a reason why sprouts are the symbol for life! What? You never noticed how we refer to new babies as little sprouts? 🙂 Many of the foods that we eat started their lives as plant sprouts. Sprouts have long been recognized as healthy little buggers to have on your plate, but now we know […]

Healthy Foods: Looking for a frugal and easy meal?

One of my most favorite sightseeing trips was to Arlington, Virginia, right outside of Washington, DC, our nation’s capital. Arlington Cemetery is here and the hustle and bustle of the DC is evident, with monuments, statues, and museums everywhere. The great part of Washington is you can walk everywhere. But that makes you hungry, so […]

Healthy Foods: Salad Spin

I get a lot of emails from readers (feel free to email your questions—I may include them in an upcoming article, Support at Saving Dinner dot com) and this one warrants an article. I hate to trouble you with a silly salad question, but I’ve never eaten salad on a regular basis before joining Flylady, […]

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: 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 […]