Heart to Heart

If one of your health goals is to keep your heart as healthy as possible (good move, too–kind of critical in the staying-alive scheme of things), then you need to know what your heart needs in the form of nutrients to operate optimally. There are foods that give the heart a nutritional advantage and provide […]

There’s Something About Soup

To miss out on warm, homemade soup with some good bread or homemade muffins on colder days, just breaks my heart. The condensed stuff in the red labeled can just doesn’t count. There is something soul-satisfying about a hearty soup, simmering on the stove (or in the crockpot) with the smell of something baked coming […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Water

Did you know water is a nutrient? The only thing that will truly quench that thirst and hydrate your body is water.  Water makes up nearly 70% of the human body.  Almost every bodily function we have needs water.  Water carries the good stuff in (nutrients) and it’s water that takes the bad stuff out […]

Cooking without a Recipe

I want to teach you how to cook without a recipe. Yes, without a recipe! You see food preparation and cooking have to do with ingredients being put together in such a way that a dish magically appears. You don’t have to follow a recipe to get these kinds of results. Recipes are very useful […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Mmmm, More Pumpkin, Please!

Thanksgiving may be over, but that doesn’t mean our consumption of this superfood should be. This gigantic gourd is filled to its stem with beta carotene, alpha-carotene, lycopene—all helpful carotenoids to help you with heart health and lower your risk of several chronic diseases. Here’s a TIP: You can buy canned pumpkin year-round. It’s inexpensive […]