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 […]
Dinner Diva: Wax on . . . wax off! What are they putting on our fruits and veggies?
I saw some videos online recently that stopped me in my tracks. They featured people in their kitchens peeling a plastic sort of film off of their lettuce. Now, I’ve also seen a video that has shown this coating is actually completely natural but it did make me curious enough to do a bit more […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Fall in love with hemp hearts
Don’t worry. I’m not going to sit here and tout the health benefits of marijuana! Hemp has an association with marijuana because they’re both related. Hemp is a variety of Cannabis sativa, but it does not contain high levels of the stuff that gives you a high. It does have a whole lot of health […]
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, […]
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 […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Smokin’ hot food trend: Smoked Salt
I’ve been reading more and more about smoked salt in food magazines and blogs. A lot of TV chefs and home chefs seem to be talking about gourmet salts more and more these days. USA Today has actually placed lowly old “salt” at the top of its food trend of 2012 list! Salt! It’s not […]
Food For Thought: Please, for the love of all that’s good and holy, say no to GMO
There are hundreds (if not thousands) of mad scientists out there right now, at this very minute, working away in labs all over the world, messing around with our food supply. Scientists involved in the development of genetically modified foods are using their powers for evil and not for good if you ask me. The […]
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, […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: When your plate needs a grain, fill it with millet!
If you’ve been saving all your millet for your bird feeders, you might want to rethink that! Millet technically is a seed and not a grain, but in the culinary world, it’s a grain . . . so that’s how we’re going to treat it for the sake of this article. This delicious tiny round […]