Tip, Trick & a Recipe: The ravishing watermelon radish
If you’ve ever walked past a watermelon radish at the grocery store, you probably did so not knowing how pretty this vegetable is when you get beyond the surface. The next time you encounter one of these unsuspecting round root vegetables, I encourage you to purchase one and give it a whirl. A relative of […]
Cheers to Red Wine!
If you enjoy a glass of vino every once in a while, choose red over white, and enjoy some amazing health benefits while doing some de-stressing. Red wine has a long list of health benefits, from acting as a probiotic within the body to protecting the heart. As a side note, I suggest you look […]
Dinner Diva: Fall Foraging Primer
On the next sunny day, perhaps you’ll consider taking a nice long walk to forage for some wild fall edibles. There are plenty of nutritious foods just waiting to be plucked from trees or from the ground in the forest or a nearby meadow. Foraging is a very satisfying (and fun) activity. Plus you get […]
Healthy Foods: Love those cloves
It would appear as though pumpkin season is upon us once again. And I don’t know about you, but when I think pumpkin, I think warm fall spices. What would a pumpkin pie be without a hint of cloves? Ground cloves don’t just grow in those little tins, you know! This spice actually comes from […]
Dinner Diva: Add a new meat to your dinner plate. Game on!
There’s a lot more in the way of meat out there than pork, beef, and poultry. Venison, bison, rabbit, goat, and even alligator are all examples of readily available game meats (in most places). With the paleo way of eating running rampant in the country these days, and with one of the pillars of that […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: More to tapioca than pudding!
Many people are familiar with the creamy white dessert known as tapioca pudding, but there’s a lot more than that to the root of the cassava plant. In some countries, tapioca (which is essentially a root vegetable) is eaten as a main dish for a good source of energy that is low in cholesterol. Tapioca […]
Can you smell the sulfur veggies?
Can you smell the sulfur veggies? I don’t know about you, but nobody ever told me to sit down and eat my sulfur-rich vegetables. Well, except for Dr. Terry Wahls in her hugely popular TED Talks video. (In case you aren’t familiar with this phenomenal doctor, she ate her way out of advanced MS through […]
Healthy Foods: Wanna smooch a Kombucha!
A diet rich in fermented foods is key to good health. That’s because fermented foods help to keep a good healthy balance of bacteria in the gut—a requirement for optimal digestion. You should try to incorporate fermented foods into each of your daily meals, be it a glass of kefir with breakfast, a side of […]
Dinner Diva: Raising a Paleo baby
If you are currently expecting a baby, or if you have a baby getting ready to start on solid foods, how I envy you! You have the chance to raise an organic, Part-Time Paleo baby. How fortunate you are! When you give birth to a healthy little human, you don’t have to feed that child […]