Dinner Diva: Not Your Mother’s Tuna Casserole
All home cooks appreciate the ease of accomplishment of doing dinner the one-pot way. When your family is busy and going in a million different directions, being able to make dinner in one pot, plunk down a salad, and yell, “Dinner!” in the time it takes to boil pasta, is critical mass for any hectic […]
Food For Thought: Stick to Your Skillet
The skillet is one of the best inventions since (yeah, I’ll use that food metaphor), sliced bread. This wonder of precision-crafted metal can handle your dinner with ease and gives you the extra bonus of being easy on the clean-up, too. As simple and wonderful as the crockpot is for making stews and soups, the […]
Healthy Foods: How to Do Healthy and Low Carb
Say “low carb” and immediately visions of steak and eggs dance in your head. Folks somehow have this notion that your mouth will never again chomp into a sandwich or that your diet will be devoid of anything fiber-filled. Phooey, I say! It doesn’t have to be that way. You can have your low-carb and […]
Dinner Diva: Treat Your Body to Some Sprouted Grains
There’s a lot of talk these days about gluten sensitivity. Celiac disease, a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with the absorption of nutrients, has become more common in recent years. And while gluten sensitivity is one thing, celiac is quite another. Grains that are sprouted can often be tolerated by gluten-sensitive […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Kick Out Those Kitchen Odors
KITCHEN ODORS. Ewww! Gross, huh? It’s a reality though, when you do a lot of cooking, so… Here’s today’s TRICK: Have you ever been in bed, started falling asleep, and keep thinking you smelled onions? Then you realize you do indeed smell them; they’re on your hands from chopping onions for dinner that night. You may […]
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 […]
Healthy Foods: More from Dear Dinner Diva
We get a lot of questions and we answer the good ones! 😉 If you have a good one, send it on to dinner diva at saving dinner dot com (altogether, use symbols) On to the questions– Dear Dinner Diva, Please make a “Printer Friendly” version of your daily emails. The recipes are great but […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: The Skinny on Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
Here’s today’s TRICK: When handling raw boneless skinless breasts of chicken that need to be cut up for a recipe, make sure it is semi-frozen. That way you’ll get a nice firm slice made without the wiggle factor! It’s easier and neater this way. Here’s today’s TIP: Make SURE you use a cutting board designated only for […]
Food For Thought: Table Talk
Dear Friends, You’ve done the shopping, the chopping, the cooking, the serving, and assembled the whole family around the dinner table for a nice meal together. Now what? Sometimes getting good conversations started can be tougher than an overcooked steak (especially with teenagers). With hectic schedules, electronic devices, jobs, school, church, and other extracurricular activities […]