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 […]
Healthy Foods: Great Reader Tips 2!
This week, I have even more great tips that I know you want to see! I’ve selected some gems and have them here for your perusal: *I save the ends of carrots, celery, turnips, outer layers of onions (not the papery skin), and other washed vegetable trimmings together in a freezer bag for making broth. […]
Dinner Diva: A Trip Down Memory Lane
I grew up in the ’70s where wide bell bottoms, Richard Nixon, and Charlie’s Angels reigned supreme. And even though Helen Reddy was singing, “I am Woman, Hear Me Roar”, most homemakers of that time weren’t exactly burning their bras…they were figuring out the art of juggling a home and a career and were more […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: The Great Garbanzo
Here’s today’s TRICK: Next time you make a tossed green salad, add some cooked or canned (drained and rinsed) garbanzo beans for a nearly instant fiber and a protein lift as well! A half cup of this fine bean (aka as chick peas) has only 120 calories, 5 grams of protein and a whopping 8 grams […]
Healthy Foods: Great Reader Tips!
I have a big email bag full of great tips that won’t all make it to the Hip Tip section because there are only 52 weeks a year, LOL! So I’ve selected some really great ones and have them here for your perusal: *Hi. I operate a home day care, and so have to be […]
Dinner Diva: It’s Out of Control!
One of the most frustrating things in the kitchen is dealing with the plastic stuff. You know what I’m talking about—Tupperware, Rubbermaid containers, whatever brand or style you use, we all have it.And boy do we have it! We have it to overflowing. It is as if the giant plasticware beast threw up in our […]