Recipe: Simple Chinese Vegetable Sauce
A simple sauce that can be just the cure for boring vegetables.
6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks
Learn the basics
Recipe: Summer Vegetable Skillet with Peanut Sauce
What’s your go-to meal for something fast, healthy and yummy? For me, it’s skillet dishes, hands down. Learn to make one and you can vary it a hundred ways, never have to struggle through a recipe, and almost invariably end up with a darn tasty meal.
Even More About Getting More Beans into Your Diet
More tips on money-saving, cooking dried beans in a super accelerated fashion, classes and using bean juice.
Getting More Beans Into Your Diet
Granted, many view beans as “desert island” food, as in, something reserved for when they are stranded on a desert island. But those in the know see gold in a batch of colorful beans. In case you’ve yet to discover this treasure, here are two key tips for getting started.
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.)
Dried Beans–More Cooking Tips
Two helpful tips for cooking dried beans.
Fast Lunches–for Big Kids or Small
Looking for quick lunches that are wholesome, too? The frozen foods aisle has a good selection of real, whole foods all washed, cut and ready to pop in the microwave. Combine with a few strategic deli purchases and ready made sauces for a meal that’s faster than fast food but still tasty, fresh and healthful.
Affordable Organics?
Think organics are too expensive? Try this on for size: What if, every time you purchased an organic vegetable, you actually got not just one but two or three vegetables? No doubt that would make the economic equation a lot more attractive.
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.