Category: Healthy Living, Recipes & Info
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Low Carb Dessert Crepes
You can tell it’s January when you offer someone a piece of cake or a cookie and they turn you down with that indescribable look of dread as they shoo you away. After feasting on every crumb of goodness presented on the Holiday buffets of previous months, it’s time to clamp down and turn down…
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Sinless And Low Fat Chocolate Fudge Cake
Out of all of the desserts in my repertoire, the one thing I get asked most often about are chocolate dessert recipes. Regardless of whether it’s a cake or a cookie, chocolate is the flavor of choice for both men and women. The other requirement was that it has to be fudgy…so when I set…
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Eat Your Way To Youthful Skin
Recently, I came across some very interesting information about certain foods that help in the development of natural collagen production in the skin. I know that this may be a strange topic to cover on a food blog, but I found the information to be very interesting…and I hope you will to. Most of the information…
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A Healthier Waffle
My friend Jen and I go back about 20 years. When we met, she was an inside sales rep at Albert Uster Imports, and I was just starting out as a Pastry Chef working in a large hotel. Jen knew the daily demands of the food industry, and she always made sure that I had…
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Raid The Fridge Vegetable & Pasta Soup
The winter is officially upon us and staying warm this year will involve all of the things our mothers taught us…dress in layers, wear your woolly socks, hats and scarves, and don’t forget to eat your soup…oh, yes…lots of soup. I cook so many different types of dishes, but there is nothing quite like that…
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Do You Know Where Your Meat Comes From?
The meat revolution began several years ago, and is showing no signs of slowing down. Unless, you have been living under a rock for the past few years, I am sure that you have definitely been hearing the words green and sustainability more often now than ever before. This movement has created the whole farm…
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Coconut Oil…A Functional Food?
A few years ago, I participated in a food show where I kept running into this woman who was going on and on about the benefits of coconut oil. Apparently, she had been a recent convert to the product and wanted to share her new found knowledge with everyone she met…hmmm, I’m not so easily…
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The Benefits of Bison…
We have all heard the news touting the new category of nutrient dense foods that have been labeled superfoods by the medical community. Some of these items like soy, whole grains, dark chocolate, omega 3 fatty fish and blueberries have been found to possess anti-inflammatory properties. This is important to know, because recent research suggests…
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Zesty Guacamole
Guacamole is one of the easiest and healthiest snacks you can choose to eat. It is so versatile that you can enjoy it as a dip with chips of your choice, as an accompaniment to tacos, burritos, tostadas, steak or chicken or just about anything! The creaminess of the avocado can also double as a salad dressing by…
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Zucchini Fritters
In my humble opinion, zucchini is such an underrated vegetable. At home, my family used them all the time in a few different ways. We would stuff them with meat and rice and cook them in a tomato sauce (when making yemista), or my dad would cut them in half lengthwise and fill them with…
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Anti-Inflammatory Foods
I had not been feeling well last year, and was experiencing more aches and pains than usual. Severe Achilles tendonitis had spread to both of my ankles and it made it very painful to walk short distances…let alone get up and cook for hours on end. I also was experiencing tendon pain in both elbows,…