Fiery Red Bean Farro Chili is a vegetarian chili featuring the ancient whole grain farro, a good source of protein and fiber. Fiery Red Bean Farro Chili Recently, farro has been gaining popularity on restaurant menus in the form of risottos, salads and side dishes. You might think it’s a trendy new whole grain (it…
Red Lentil Vegetable Soup Recipe
Red Lentil Vegetable Soup is a hearty, healthy cold weather soup. Enjoy for lunch or dinner. It is cold and pouring out today, which makes me want to curl up on the couch with a warm blanket and a hot bowl of soup. A nice bowl of Red Lentil Soup chock full of vegetables would…
How To Cook Brown Rice – Vegetable Fried Rice and Kimchi Fried Rice Recipes
Kimchi Fried Rice served with bean sprout salad What you will learn: How to Cook Brown Rice on the Stovetop How to Make Chinese Vegetable Fried Rice How to Make Kimchi Fried Rice One of the easiest whole grains to introduce into daily meals is brown rice. Brown rice comes in three basic varieties –…
Steel Cut Oatmeal with Blueberry Compote Recipe
Steel Cut Oatmeal with Blueberry Compote is a healthy, nutritious, and delicious breakfast made with whole grain steel cut oats. I grew up eating regular oatmeal. I’m not even sure if we could buy steel cut oats back then. When I first tried steel cut oatmeal, I was intrigued by the chewy texture, and the shape…
Korean Lettuce Wraps Recipe
During the week, like many of you, there are days I need to be able to make a quick and easy dinner. Between meetings, pickups and drop-offs of kids, 30 minute meals are a must some days. After a long day at school, my kids are hungry and they want to eat as soon as…
Recipes for Roasted Cauliflower and Stir-Fry Broccoli {Guest Post by Lisa Corrado: Cruciferous Vegetables}
I am thrilled to present Lisa Corrado as my guest blogger today, who shares a similar interest in healthy living. Lisa, a registered nutritionist and chef, provides nutritional counseling and coaching, and supports corporate wellness initiatives. I really like Lisa’s approach that combines clinical nutrition with the practical side, which is cooking healthily. Not only…
Vegetarian Mushroom Barley Soup Recipe
Vegetarian Mushroom Barley Soup Today, I made a big pot of Vegetarian Mushroom Barley Soup for some friends with cancer. I tried to include a lot of different cancer-fighting ingredients as the American Institute for Cancer Research stresses the importance of eating a variety of plant foods to ensure the most protection against cancer development….
Winter Squash 101 (Plus 18 Recipes!)
More delicious winter squash recipes: Winter Squash 101 (Plus 18 Recipes!)
Winter Squash Recipes
Buttercup Squash, one of many winter squash varieties With cooler weather on its way, winter squashes such as butternut, kabocha, buttercup, delicata and acorn squashes are popping up in markets. Winter squashes differ from summer squashes as they are allowed to fully mature before being eaten. Their seeds are fully developed and the skin is…
Red Curry Meatballs with Vietnamese Dipping Sauce
Red Curry Meatballs with Vietnamese Dipping Sauce are a delicious, healthy and fun meal. Serve with lettuce wraps for a quick and easy meal. Red Curry Meatballs with Vietnamese Dipping Sauce I was inspired to make Red Curry Meatballs with a Vietnamese Dipping Sauce after trying a spicy meatball recipe from Monica Bhide’s Everything Indian…
French Lentil Soup with Cilantro
This humble French Lentil Soup with Cilantro gets its rich flavor from deeply browned onions. As the weather gets cooler, I crave lentil soups. I’m always on the lookout for a good recipe for lentil soup, especially one with a twist of flavor. I came across several interesting lentil soups, but the one in Suvir…
Korean Chicken Taco Recipe
This Korean Chicken Taco recipe was inspired by a similar taco I sampled in California at the farmer’s market. I recently tried my hand at a Korean Chicken Taco recipe after tasting my first Korean taco at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco, California, which features a wide selection of artisan street food,…
Chimichurri Sauce Recipe
Chimichurri sauce is a versatile sauce that can dress up fish, chicken, steak or vegetables. When I first discovered chimichurri over seven years ago, I couldn’t believe I’d never had it before. My kids ordered skirt steak with chimichurri sauce at one of our favorite Cuban restaurants while on vacation in Sand Key, Florida. As…
Healthy Dinner Menu
I was trying to come up with a healthy dinner menu this past week when I came upon Tiffin Tale’s menu for a Fall Harvest Dinner that she entered for a food blog challenge. What perfect timing! Tiffin Tales has amazing pictures and recipes, so I knew I couldn’t go wrong. My goal was to…
How To Cook Beans
Dried Black Beans Beans are a great source of fiber and protein, and are naturally low in fat (1 cup of cooked black beans has 15 grams fiber, 15 grams protein, 2 grams fat, and 0 grams saturated fat). In addition, beans are considered antioxidant “superstars,” given their rich antioxidant level, which helps fight…
The Farmer’s Market Sandwich
Farm fresh heirloom tomato, mozzarella cheese and pesto sandwich Each summer when the local farmer’s market opens, the one thing I look forward to most is my first taste of fresh baked bread topped with basil pesto, fresh mozzarella cheese and sliced tomatoes. To me, this sandwich marks the beginning of all the fresh…
Healthy Lunch Ideas for Kids
Please take a look at my guest posting entitled “Healthy Lunch Ideas for Kids” (also great for adult lunches) on my childhood friend’s blog, Parent Grapevine.I had just posted Tina and her husband’s experience with prostate cancer on my blog. We thought it would be fun to “cross-blog” and share our ideas.I would love to hear…
Guest Post by Tina Case: My Personal Experience Dealing with Prostate Cancer
I am honored to present Tina as my very first guest blogger. Tina is a childhood friend of mine, who I reconnected with recently through Facebook, only to find out that we are fellow bloggers. You can find Tina at Parent Grapevine, where she has written a 10-part series on her personal experience dealing with…
Farmer’s Market Vegetable Soup Recipe
Farmer’s Market Vegetable Soup I was inspired to make a Farmer’s Market Vegetable Soup this morning after I saw Melissa Clark’s Minestrone with Shell Beans and Almond Pistou recipe in the New York Times. What appealed to me most about the recipe was that it was a great way to clean out my refrigerator. I…
Easy Curry Tomato Spinach Lentil Soup Recipe
This Curry Tomato Spinach Lentil Soup can be put together in minutes, using high quality, store-bought ingredients. It just goes to show eating healthy doesn’t mean difficult. A number of years ago, I taught a series of cooking classes at our local senior community center. I had read an article about the growing trend of…
Roasted Beet and Heirloom Tomato Salad Recipe {How To Roast Beets}
This week, a good friend of mine treated me to a delicious lunch at Farmer’s Table (21 Forest Street, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA), a farm to table restaurant that opened recently, featuring farm fresh organic produce and local meat products. Beet Salad We had eaten there for the first time almost a month ago, so I…