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Need some motivation to begin growing and changing your taste buds? Two recent posts have explained how our taste buds are like gatekeepers between our good eating intentions and the hand that holds the fork. If these gatekeepers can be recruited as allies, they can be a huge help on the healthy eating journey. While … Read more
For entertaining, there’s nothing like a bar–a food bar, that is. Food bars don’t require gourmet cooking skills; just set out bowls of components. They also make it easy to navigate the myriad food preferences, sensitivities and allergies typical in groups these days. Just provide a good variety of components and guests can create whatever … Read more
Since this recipe uses brown rice rather than white, it’s made like a fried rice. The vegetables would turn to complete mush if they were simmered with the brown rice until it was done. Instead, the vegetables are sauteed briefly before being fried with day-old rice. So be sure to cook the rice in advance–or … Read more
Is it time to grow up? Poor pea soup keeps getting ignored just because its coloring has squeamish connotations that date back to childhood. How I got the courage to dive in and discover a dish that’s really quite delicious.
Cooking offers so much more than just some food we can eat to not be hungry anymore. Like a sense of accomplishment. That’s what I felt after cooking some leeks that were really good. Successfully cooking leeks may not sound like much, unless you know all the hesitancy, and even anxiety, I felt about developing … Read more
What’s the best way to cook kale? Saute? Blanch? And how can you use it once it’s cooked?
Ever suffer from vegetable-making exhaustion and wonder if there’s any hope for a peaceful coexistence with vegetables? “Investment thinking” may be your ticket for hope.
Maybe cooking was never meant to be an exact science, subject to one-dimensional assessment on a good/bad scale. Taking this perspective eliminates the pressure to achieve absolute “rightness” in the kitchen, replacing it with a no-pressure opportunity to just make things better.
What’s the journey to vegetable paradise look like? An audience of international students adds unique dimension to a health talk.
We want to eat more vegetables, but what if they are pretty awful tasting? Four easy tricks take the nasty taste from the harsher tasting vegetables.