Tip of the Day: Choose one superstar
I am currently browsing through Ina Garten’s cookbook “Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics”. It is amazing! As I’ve mentioned before, I buy a cookbook, I check it out from the library first, go through it and make a recipe or two, and will then usually end up buying it. Using this method, you can really pick and choose which books you buy and know that it won’t be sitting on your shelf collecting dust because there ends up being only one recipe that you like out of the entire book. What...
Read MoreDisposing of broken glass
Cleaning up broken glass is no one’s idea of a good time…but these helpful hints can at least make it safer. Place all pieces of broken glass in a brown paper bag. This is a reminder that there is broken glass in your trash can and ensures there will be no shards poking through the plastic trash bag and accidentally cutting someone (speaking from my own personal experience—ouch…19 stitches!). Do not place the brown bag in your kitchen trash, take it to your outside trash...
Read MoreHelpful vegetarian nutrition info
Do those New Year’s resolutions have you thinking about giving the vegetarian lifestyle a try? Nutrition is very different for vegetarians, and having been an ovo-lacto (I eat eggs & dairy but no meat/fish/poultry of any kind) vegetarian for 14 years, I wanted to post some information that was very helpful for me when I was beginning this journey. You might be surprised to find that even veggies contain protein. Sources of calcium: **ages 9-18 need 1300 mg/day, ages 19-50 need 1000...
Read MoreWhat’s in-season for Winter
Here are some fruits, veggies, and flowers that are in-season right now (try something new this winter!) Asian Pears Apples Bananas Blood oranges (I’ve not tried these yet) Cranberries Kumquats (you eat them…peel & all) Mandarins Navel oranges Grapefruits (I’ve read these are actually at their best in winter) Pomegranates Beets (try them roasted…peel, drizzle w/olive oil, sprinkle with salt & pepper, roast in oven at 475 for about 20 min, or until soft) bok choy Butternut...
Read MoreTip of the Day: Dinner multi-task
I made pork chops last night and was debating on how I was going to season them. A very simple way of meeting the gastronomic preferences of your family is to do a dinner multi-task. I placed a sheet of aluminum foil on a baking sheet, and made 2 variations of pork chops on the same sheet. I put BBQ sauce (Sweet Baby Ray’s, to be exact) on 1/2 the chops and did an olive oil/herb sprinkle on the remaining 1/2. They turned out beautifully. This isn’t a mind blowing solution…but something...
Read MoreWhat I’m reading: “My life in France” by Julia Child
Yes, I am reading 2 books at once. After seeing “Julie and Julia”, I was so intrigued by the snippets of Juila Child’s private life, that I couldn’t wait to find this book at the library. I am already in love with it and I’m only on the second chapter. It is refreshing to read how Julia became so enchanted with France after she and Paul moved there and how she approached this new challenge with abandon to learn about the language, culture, and food. It is inspiring and...
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