31 Healthy Hints for the Holidaze: Just Eat More Veggies

Christina Pirello suggests one simple New Year’s resolution: eat veggies.

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31 Healthy Hints for the Holidaze: Re-thinking Gift Giving

We are blessed with so many gifts as Americans, as people born in modern times who needs this year’s “hottest, must have gadget, scarf, etc”? It’s time to get off this hamster wheel of consumerism and start thinking outside of the box this holiday season.

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Michael Pollan & Peanut Butter Cups

I’ve used 3 of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules to justify making homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups.

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30 Soups in 30 Days: Stone Soup

Want kids to fall in love with vegetable soup? Cook up a batch of Stone Soup with them!

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Cioccolata Calda

Tweet One afternoon while sipping my cappuccino at a nearby cafe,  a delegate from Vermont introduced me to an amazing Italian drink: Cioccolata Calda. The translation is  hot chocolate but it is nothing like the  watery kind we drink in the US. Hot chocolate in Italy and many parts of Europe is thick, almost the [...]

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Carlo Petrini: The Father of Slow Food

Tweet Once upon a time in the late 1980′s a man named Carlo Petrini organized a bold and powerful campaign against McDonalds.  The fast food chain was planning to open a branch of the golden arches near the Spanish steps in Rome. Carlo and his pals brandished bowls of penne past as weapons of protest [...]

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Recipe: Super Slow Super Easy Chicken Stock

The three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, tie in nicely to my slow cooker chicken stock. Here’s the recipe along with info on my Slow Cooker Cookbooklet.

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Recipe: Almond Milk

Looking for an easy way to make almond milk? Here it is!

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Recipe: Black Bean Burritos

Tweet This year, my eldest daughter is cooking her own meals at college. No more school food for her! She and I have made a deal. I’ll send her recipes if she’ll do some fancy food styling and take some photos. Between the two of us, we should have a pretty decent cookbook within a [...]

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Chinese Chicken Salad

Tweet If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! It was so hot yesterday, I had to get out of my kitchen. So I fired up the grill and whipped up one of my favorite salads on the deck for dinner. I had some skinless, boneless chicken thighs marinating in some teriyaki [...]

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