I’m kicking off my blog tour with a guest post on the CafeMom Food and Party Buzz blog. Check it out for a guaranteed kid-pleasing recipe from my upcoming cookbook — served without anything touching anything else: Garlic Fish!
Reader question: As a type 2 diabetic I look for healthy recipes, & the immune boosting food sounded like a great thing. But when reading the carbs @110 per serving — OMG we are only allowed 60 carbs per meal. This is not at all doable. I’m sad to learn that you must be operating [...]
This week my mother hosted a large family dinner and outdid herself by serving a scrumptious lasagna. She had literally spent an entire day preparing it: making the sauce from scratch, pre-boiling the flat noodles, carefully layering the ingredients. I just sent out a newsletter (my first one in months!) and included a quick description [...]
Whether from a garden, the farmer’s market, or the local grocery, fresh herbs are a good buy as the summer herb harvest comes in. My neighbor gave me a sheaf of 3-foot-tall dill stems yesterday. The first thing I did was mince some and blend it into softened butter for a tangy twist on grilled [...]
My cookbook won an iParenting Media award and they caught me on film last month in Los Angeles. I give a lot of information about my unique healthy-one-pot cooking method in this quick minute and one half, so check it out! Elizabeth Yarnell discusses healthy one pot meals.
Something is eating my spinach leaves. I do believe this is the dirty work of little caterpillars, but it could be something else. I know for sure that it is not the work of the baby cat face spider I saw roaming among the leaves of my lettuce garden this spring (we were thrilled to [...]
My brother-in-law’s college buddy, Greg Melville, converted his old mercedes to run on used vegetable oil. A book about his two cross-country voyages on vegetable oil, Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future is due out soon, but in the meantime, check out this article on CNN [...]
Check out this talk by one of my favorite authors, Michael Pollan, a natural historian whose book The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World introduced me to a whole new way of thinking about our world many years ago. In this clip he discusses a topic from his book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: [...]
