Tip, Trick & a Recipe: If the cashew fits!
That buttery little crescent-shaped snack we all know as the cashew nut is actually part of the cashew apple which grows on the cashew tree in coastal areas of Brazil. Us folks here in North America enjoy snacking on these little guys, but in the Caribbean and in Brazil, cashews are considered a delicacy. Have […]
Healthy Foods: Don’t weed seaweed out of your diet!
Does the thought of chomping down on a mouthful of seaweed appeal to you, or send you running for a tall glass of water? If you have a negative association with eating seaweed, I venture to guess that you have never actually tasted it because it is one of the most delicious vegetables you can […]
Dinner Diva: Craving sleep? Eat these foods!
If you find yourself tossing and turning at night, you’re not alone. It’s estimated that more than 60 million Americans struggle to sleep at night. So why not add some sleep-inducing foods to your diet? What you eat for dinner really can affect how you sleep. Some foods will help your brain calm down, while […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Time to talk about Thyme!
While most of us have thyme on our spice racks, few people realize that this powerful aromatic herb actually deserves a spot in our medicine cabinets as well! Thyme has been used throughout history as medicine and it sounds like our ancestors were bang on. There’s oil in thyme known as thymol and it acts […]
Food For Thought: Shop like a European!
A while back, I wrote about the issue of food waste in this country. It really is astonishing to think about how much perfectly good food is tossed in the trash in this day and age. We have access to more food than our mothers and their mothers had before us, and yet we’ve become […]
Healthy Foods: Eat your Edamame!
“Eh-dah-MAH-may.” That’s how you pronounce it, by the way, in case y’all were wondering! What is it? Well, it’s what those of us who don’t speak Japanese call soybeans. But not just any soybeans. Edamame refers to vegetable soybeans that are harvested while they’re young and the plant is still green. I am not a […]
Dinner Diva: We can only do what we can do!
Over the past couple of months, I’ve warned you of arsenic in your rice, pesticides on your apples, BPA in your plastic, and human hair as a bread preservative (among other shocking topics). It’s recently been brought to my attention that some folks are starting to feel discouraged after reading my blog posts containing this […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: The hourglass-shaped winter squash, in a (butter)nut shell
I love me some delicious, nutritious fresh sliced zucchini in a stir fry, but when winter squash season comes upon us in the fall, I tend to reach for butternut in favor of the milder flavored summer squashes. Like zucchini, pumpkin, cucumber, and melon, butternut squash is a member of the gourd family. You may not think of […]
Food For Thought: Is there BPA on your dinner plate?
BPA. We all know it’s bad for us, but urine samples from studies show that roughly 90% of us have this chemical flowing through our systems. We take it in when we eat foods from containers made from BPA. That’s not acceptable, folks. What is BPA? At its most basic definition, BPA is a chemical […]