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Quick Question: What’s languishing, all but forgotten, on the condiment shelf in almost all our refrigerators? Mustard, of course! Poor mustard waits patiently for hamburger nights but you can almost hear it begging for more: “Give me a chance! I can do so much more than just spice up a burger!” Indeed I have found this … Read more
The Good News: We’re eating fewer ultra-processed foods! “The mean percentage of calories consumed from UPFs fell 3 percentage points since 2018.” The Bad News: 53% of our calories are still coming from ultra-processed foods. A Heartening Trend At least the trend shows that we CAN change! We can see through the marketing gimmicks and … Read more
People learn I’m in the healthy eating field and assume I must cook all sorts of fabulous meals, all the time. Hardly the case at all! Fully 50% of my meals are simple skillets: Saute an onion and garlic, add some veggies and a protein and serve soup style with broth or atop a whole … Read more
Just a reminder that it’s rhubarb season. Here I show it getting washed and dried along with a bunch cilantro (which pair nicely with each other, BTW.) Don’t miss out on the burst of sweet-tart flavor rhubarb adds to a dish. And remember that it can be used in savory dishes as well as sweet. … Read more
By the time I get home from grocery shopping, I just want to put things away and get on with the rest of my day or evening. But if there is cilantro or parsley in my shopping bags, I force myself to wash them immediately and set them to dry in a colander for the … Read more
This is the second of five articles on Transformation: Being New in Our Thinking, the missing link to speed and ease our journey to healthier, happier eating, for life. A previous post began the conversation around Meal Making Transformation, starting with why it’s a worthwhile concept to know about. As mentioned there, the parts and … Read more
This is the final part of a series on Food Marketing that explores why we need a different kind of smarts to stay healthy in an unhealthy food environment, i.e., “marketing-smarts.” The last few posts talked about the dangerous influence of marketing when it comes to making food choices. You might remember the mac ‘n … Read more
It’s the Season! Discover the Savory Side of Rhubarb Eating with the seasons automatically delivers wonderful diet diversity. Case in point: Rhubarb! Rhubarb is actually a vegetable even though it’s mostly used in desserts, probably because we yearn to pair its tart flavor with something sweet. But the tartness of rhubarb, in small amounts, actually … Read more
I think it’s fair to say that I have A LOT of garlic! It all came courtesy of my farm share, but I don’t mind a bit. Garlic is a great addition to almost any dish and can be expensive at the grocery store. The variety in my garlic stash is called hardneck because of … Read more
In addition to being new in the kitchen and thinking, Meal Making Transformation is about being new in our cooking, which means getting comfortable with simple basic techniques, like vegetable roasting. Do you harbor bad feelings about Brussels sprouts? If so, there’s a good chance your Brussels trauma got embedded at a young age, at … Read more