Roasted Garlic
There used to be a restaurant called Red Rock Canyon by our old house that had the best carrots and roasted garlic smashed red-skin potatoes. I could always take
02/02/15
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Category: Nutritional Info
Omega 3s
I previously touched on how important omega-3 fatty acids are to cardiovascular and mental health. Capt. Joseph R. Hibbeln, MD, of the National Institutes of Health, points out that in
01/29/15
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Polenta Wilted Spinach
My kids had a friend hanging out today and about five minutes before dinner, my daughter asked if he could eat over. We’ve asked the kids a hundred times not
01/27/15
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Salt Block Cooking
We were in a deli in Mt. Airy called Concetta’s Main Street Bistro, and I saw this Himalayan salt block on a shelf in a pretty, decorative stand. One wall
01/18/15
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Skin Foods
We hired this woman recently where I work, and I noticed as soon as I met her in her interview that she had perfect skin. I thought it might be
01/16/15
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Brainy Breakfast
Breakfast is our fuel to get through the first part of the day. It’s important that it’s not sugar-centric or carb- (quickly turn into sugars) centric, particularly for children who
01/09/15
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Bok Choy Quiche
I saw a picture of a quiche in Vegetarian Times (Sept. 2014, pg. 64) that used phyllo dough for the crust and it looked quite pretty. I often find that
12/14/14
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Carrot Soup
At the one-year-old’s birthday party that I went to this summer, the mom made a cold carrot soup to go with chicken salad sandwiches. I’ve been meaning to make it
11/20/14
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Green Beans
Happy Halloween! I’m not much into Halloween – big surprise. One time a dentist told me that the best thing for kids is to let them gorge themselves on Halloween
10/31/14
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Broccoli Raab
Walking through the backyard the other day I suddenly realized the broccoli raab (rob) my daughter planted a few weeks ago is starting to go to seed/flower. I looked back
10/20/14
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