Health Begins in the Kitchen
Arugula and Macadamia Salad with Strawberry Vinaigrette (The “No-Brainer” Brainy Salad) Nitric oxide doesn’t sound like something that should be good for us. You might be thinking it sounds pretty close to those nasty cancer-causing chemicals found in things like deli meat and bacon (nitrates). […]
The more colors you can put in a meal, the more gold stars will be passed out by the Nutrition Genies. Why? Each color that shows up in a vegetable or fruit means there’s a corresponding anthocyanin or carotenoid (2) waiting to do its unique […]
Every once in awhile I go to my pantry to retrieve something and I see my lonely little nut bag begging to be used. Last night I felt the guilt and immediately started looking for some almonds. Sadly I was out but in all dire […]
Soup is awesome…if it’s creamy then it’s stellar! So why not take one of the healthiest veggies out there–KALE–and cream it up? Add a little chicken or any other protein waiting to be paired with something exceptional and you’ve got a complete meal. What’s so […]
I’ll admit that when you take a beautiful rich-colored green vegetable and boil it up, you’re not going to get something that’s a visual feast to look at. But with Collard Green’s somewhat harder leaves to tame, you’ll have to do something drastic to make […]
After an extremely long break, I’m finally back into what resembles the routine I veered from in early December. The Christmas season followed by the New Year gets us ready to let go of the old and embrace the new but for me it always […]
It’s New Year’s Eve and my mom says she’s going to make some corn fritters. Sadly I’m at least 8 hour away by vehicle not even taking into account bad driving conditions between here (Kelowna, BC) and there (Cardston, Alberta). You know I’m a little […]
Ah, finally something mashed I’m not making with cauliflower. Mashed potatoes were a staple at every holiday dinner at the Skipworth (my nuclear family) household. Come to think of it, they were a weekly staple. There’s just something so comforting about a heap of white […]
Pot Pies summon up a coziness in my bones as I think of sinking my fork into that first steamy runny bite. Sadly my mom never had time to make such time consuming fare since she worked full time as an RN as well as […]
I was lucky to have two sets of grandparents around while I grew up on our farm in Southern Alberta. The ones that lived on the farm with us were named “Grandma and Grandpa Farm” and it’s not a big stretch to understand that the […]