Healthy Foods: Wild about salmon!

Whether you buy it fresh, frozen, smoked, or from a can . . . cook it in a pan, on the grill, in the oven, or poached . . . salmon is good for you. It’s versatile, easy to prepare, and delicious! The thing is, we hear so much about the omega-3 benefits we get […]

Food For Thought: Vinegar. It’s not just for pickles anymore!

Once upon a time, there was white distilled vinegar that our mothers and grandmothers would use to pickle vegetables and clean the floors. And that was pretty much it as far as the vinegar train went. Today there are enough options in vinegar to make you nuts. There’s cider vinegar, rice vinegar, red wine vinegar, […]

Healthy Foods: Heirlooms Never Broke

By: Matt Kokenes The battle rages on between these plants, each touting their desirable assets over the other. The Heirloom, a traditionalist, the Hybrid, a scientist, the GMO, a dog crossed with a toucan. Who would you root for? If you have to ask, you already have your answer. The convolution of the matter is […]

Dinner Diva: If it’s cruciferous it’s good for us!

Bok choy, kale, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and broccoli. What do all these things have in common? (Besides starting with b’s or a hard c sound.) These superheroes of the plant world are all cruciferous vegetables and we should be eating lots of servings of them each week because of how important they are to […]

Healthy Foods: Hot! Hot! Hot! The goods on Cayenne Pepper

It’s hard sometimes to get your head around the thought of herbs and spices actually providing us with health benefits, but make no mistake, they do! And cayenne pepper is one of those spices that does the body good. Warning! Cayenne pepper is a member of the nightshade family, see my article about nightshades here, […]

Food For Thought: Warning—Do not read while eating store-bought bread

Let me ask you something… Would you purposely put a bowl of wood chips in front of your children in the morning, pour some milk on it, hand them a spoon and tell them to eat it? How about slicing up some pizza topped with human hair clippings, swept off the floor of a barbershop […]

Healthy Foods: Spouting off on Brussels sprouts!

In my humble opinion, Brussels sprouts have a pretty bad rap. This is probably because many of us were forced to sit down to a plate of mushy green balls of leaves and told to eat them even though they tasted like watered-down grass clippings and smelled like dirty socks. There are much more interesting […]