Chicken with Lemon Lychee Glaze
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Dinner Diva: How to roast a whole chicken
For many new chefs, roasting a whole chicken can be an intimidating task. But, really, there are few things that are as easy to pull off (or impressive) in the kitchen as a juicy roasted chicken. The most important thing is to start with local organic free-range poultry whenever possible. I always reach for smaller […]
Lemony Dragon Fruit Juice
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Should you supplement with L-Glutamine?
I’ve written about amino acids before and about how they quite literally are the building blocks of proteins. There are hundreds of amino acids. Eight of them must be taken in via diet (those are considered essential amino acids) and others are made by the body itself (considered non-essential). L-glutamine is a non-essential amino acid, […]
Dinner Diva: Think Outside the Side Dish
How many of us live in households where the dinner plate consists of a serving of meat, starch, and a small portion of vegetables? Now that I eat a Paleo diet, my plate looks a lot different than it once did. No longer do we eat rice, couscous or pasta at my house. When you […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Who wants wasabi?
Nothing can clear the sinuses quite like a good bite of wasabi! Wasabi belongs to the same family as cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli so we know it must be a healthy food. The sawa wasabi plant grows naturally in China and Japan, in the gravel beds of mountain streams, or in swampy areas. You might […]
Food For Thought: Getting friendly with fats.
Sometimes in life, we must end relationships that are unhealthy for us. Unfortunately, for a number of years, mainstream “nutritional” information has had us avoiding fat like the plague. We’ve heard that saturated fat will make us gain weight, clog our arteries and give us heart disease. This information has misled scores of North Americans […]
Healthy Foods: Artichoke benefits not hard to swallow!
Did you know that 68% of us don’t get enough magnesium in our diets (we need roughly 300 milligrams per day)? That isn’t good because this vital mineral is required for over 300 chemical reactions within your body. Without enough magnesium, your muscles need to work harder and you’ll find yourself getting worn out quicker […]
Dinner Diva: Making the perfectly balanced salad
I serve a large green salad with almost every meal, and this is the time of year I love most, thanks to all of the gorgeous fresh spring greens and vegetables! Since I have this salad thing down to a science, I thought I’d share some tips with y’all as to how to make amazing, […]