Eating Well–Without Trying So Hard or Worrying So Much (part 3)
Ready to make the joyful discovery that less is more: less in the way of selections actually brings more interesting variety and nutritional depth to mealtimes. Find out how to start.
Seasonal Eating
Recipe: Using Beans in Green Salads
This salad features canned and frozen mix-ins. While these convenient foods are a good way to quickly perk up a salad, they’re also great for adding color, texture and heartiness to salads in the winter months, when tomatoes, cucumbers and other common salad standbys are out of season (and are therefore quite expensive and not very tasty.)
Recipe: Sauteed Beet Greens composed with Toasted Walnuts, Bacon Bits, & Chopped Egg
Want to make organic vegetables more affordable? Use every part of the vegetable and double your vegetable dollars, as in this recipe that uses beet greens.
The Beauty of Relishes
Could relish-making be the key for busy people who want nutritious meals without spending a lot of time in the kitchen? Time to move it from quaint and old-fashioned and into the category of vital skills for healthy eaters.
Recipe: Millet (or Rice) with Garlic Scapes
Problem: You’re having rice for dinner, again. Solution: Jazz up grains with seasonal garlic scapes.
How to Freeze Cherries for Winter
It’s quick and easy to freeze cherries for winter + get a great winter salad recipe for your frozen cherries.
Recipe: Beef and Onion Saute with Rhubarb Gratin
Discover the Savory Side of Rhubarb Accustomed to seeing rhubarb in fruit desserts, it may come as a surprise to learn that it is actually a vegetable. This is good news, however, as it presents a whole raft of additional uses for this exotically red food that is so abundant in spring when the foodscape … Read more
Why We Love Seasonal Eating
Mealtimes that are easier tastier and more fun Seasonal eating gets a lot of press these days. Usually it’s in the context of eating locally, since the two go hand in hand. Sometimes it’s in the context of saving money, since seasonal produce is less expensive than produce grown in greenhouses or shipped from different … Read more
A Boredom-Busting Meal for Mid-Winter
Easy, Fun, a Little Fancy + Vegetarian and Gluten Free So you’re bored–with restaurant food (see previous post) as well as your weekly rotation of 5 standard meals. If you can saute and deglaze, two simple Cooking Basics we learn about in Whole Kitchen classes, you can break out of that rut in a heartbeat. … Read more
Superfood Parsley Pesto: Go-To Sauce for Winter Cooking
Yesterday’s post talked about parsley’s superfood status and why that should come as no surprise since all real foods are good for us. Start getting more of parsley’s goodness into your diet with this quick and versatile pesto that tastes great on everything from spaghetti squash and salmon to white fish, chicken and pasta. Because … Read more