Reader question: Is it safe to thaw meat on the counter? While one of the great things about Glorious One-Pot Meals is that they accept frozen meats — without thawing — and it doesn’t change the cooking time. But, of course, there are times when you want to thaw meat before cooking it. I looked [...]
A recent spate of listeria cases have been linked to cantaloupes in Colorado. A few months ago, there was a surge of salmonella infections traced to contaminated eggs. Not to mention the e.coli tracked to contaminated sprouts and leafy greens. It’s almost enough to make you throw up your hands and wonder if anything is [...]
A question posed on my neighborhood list serve about feeding toddlers caught my eye. Hello moms, I am looking for a book that discusses eating, behavior, learning (everything) on raising a 12 m growing boy. This is the fourth time I had heard this question in as many weeks, so I thought that my reply [...]
If you’re a cilantro lover, rejoice! Recent research published to the Journal of Medical Microbiology shows that coriander (the other name for cilantro) oil destroys bacteria including E. coli, MRSA, salmonella and Bacillus cereus. In fact, since these are some of the bacteria that can cause food poisoning, loading your dish with cilantro seems like [...]
Food marketing follows trends as corporate marketers purposefully use hot buzzwords to describe all kinds of food products, whether or not they are true in relation to that item. Joyce Slaton posted a fabulous overview of trendy food marketing words over the past 50 years or so along with a witty explanations of what these [...]
You may have been wondering why my posts have become so sporadic of late, so I thought I’d share the news that I am now a fully-fledged Naturopathic Doctor (ND). These last 6 months have been a major push to complete my degree from Trinity School of Natural Health, but after several years of diligent [...]
It took a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis for me to fully understand that your physical state can affect your mental state. Struggling through the fatigue, mental fogginess, and physical pain of those early years gave me increased compassion for a friend’s mother who had passed away after a long battle with kidney failure during our [...]
Take your Easter tradition natural with these quick and easy natural dyes to make your Easter eggs festive without making them toxic with petroleum-based food dyes. Orange dye: 2 cups water, 2 tbsp distilled vinegar, 2 tbsp paprika Blue dye: 2 cups water, 2 tbsp distilled vinegar, 1 cup blueberries Pink dye: 2 cups water, [...]
