Recipes for A Healthier Life
This spring and summer, I’m becoming much more creative in my salad making skills. Adding berries, nuts and other fresh ingredients enhances the flavors, textures of your salad . One of the best things about salads is that they can be very versatile and creative, …
I have two oregano plants in my garden and over the past couple years both plants are getting bigger and bigger. I used to dry what I needed for the following winter and leave the rest to die during the long cold winter months. Last …
One of my ALL-TIME favorite spring/early summer fruit combination is strawberries and rhubarb, the sweetness of the strawberries meshes deliciously with the tartness of the rhubarb. Usually they are ripe at about the same time, making it convenient to bake with them at the same …
Personally I don’t eat pasta very often, but when I do the pasta itself has to be made from high quality ingredients. I always buy organic wheat products or occasionally I make my own pasta from spelt flour. A few months ago I found some …
I love love the tart and sweet flavor profiles of strawberries and rhubarb together. I like to combine it in desserts, but as always my much healthier versions. Strawberry/rhubarb jam is delicious without heaping cups of sugar that most recipes instructs one to use. Just …
One pot meals are my favorite ways to make a delicious but easy weeknight dinner. This minestrone soup is filled with veggies, beans and fresh parsley. Traditional minestrone soups also have pasta in them, but I simply left out the pasta and it was still …
Cabbage is one of my favorite toppings for tacos, including my recipes for the blackened salmon tacos and simply delicious pork carnitas. I like to make this simple cabbage salad, but at the same time it’s filled with flavor, crunch, a little kick from the …
Catsup, the most popular condiment at the grocery store but also filled with unnecessary ingredients such as corn syrup, sugar, sodium and many other yucky preservatives. Always check the ingredient list for your pantry items because because most of them have a large amount of …