Ready for a change in your diet? Don’t worry, I’m not talking low-carb, all-raw or juice-only. No, i’m talking about broadening your menu by taking small steps towards including lesser known ingredients. How about adding barley to your array of whole grains served at your dinner table. Think it’s too exotic? Wait until you learn more about what makes this little grain so powerful and versatile. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Barley Bonanza”
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Fashionable Food Trend: More Veggies
If you keep score of my posts, you’ll notice that I like to change it up. The one thing that is constant, though, is my pitch to eat more vegetables. And it looks like I’m not the only one as more and more professional chefs and restaurateurs turn to nature’s bounty to enrich their offerings and make not only great-tasting but also healthier food. Come and Cook with Us! Continue reading “Fashionable Food Trend: More Veggies”
Upgrade Your Mornings with a Pumpkin Spice Latte
Have you noticed that as soon as the days start to get shorter, pumpkins pop up all over town. In every form, color and at almost every meal. Mind you, I love pumpkins but I also wouldn’t have dreamed to go as far as drinking it in the morning. Well, things can change and I am proudly proclaiming that I, too, have joined the army of PSL fans. Not the commercial version featured in the full-page ads of major national newspapers, but the one made at home. Delicious and definitely full of fall-evoking flavors. Come and cook with us. Continue reading “Upgrade Your Mornings with a Pumpkin Spice Latte”
It’s Back-to-School Night: Let’s Eat Clean
If you have kids, you’ve probably been to a few Back-to-School events to kick off the scholastic year with a guide on what’s ahead. Well, why not take this week to review what we consider our best practices in the world of food shopping, cooking and eating. We’ve heard it all before, but it’s just good to bring to mind what we already know before we forge ahead into another year of over scheduled feeding frenzy. To borrow a widely-used and very intuitive headline for this exercise, let’s call it our Clean Eating Best Practices. Clean, because when it comes to food, our bodies can only be as clean as the foods we feed them! Come and cook with us! Continue reading “It’s Back-to-School Night: Let’s Eat Clean”
For Nancy
A few years ago, when we decided to start this blog, I remember talking to my mother-in-law’s friend Nancy. She was a dedicated teacher, wonderful singer, talented gardener and also a fabulous cook. Nancy found pleasure in sharing with you the bounty of her garden, on and off the dinner table. And she was excited about our idea of inspiring readers to cook more real food, something that came to her naturally. Through all these years, she would always find a way to relate to our posts and quickly became one of our most avid commenters. Continue reading “For Nancy”
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