This is probably my favorite weeknight chicken dish. I love rice. I love Mediterranean flavors. Sometimes I eat a couple bites of the chicken, sometimes I do chickpeas instead. It’s fast, easy and super tasty. I recently taught this recipe live on a zoom class and I cooked it in real time with all the participants. It was a huge hit!Continue reading
If you have never been able to like spaghetti squash, let’s try again. My husband and son are just not fans, whereas my daughters and I love it. I think if you go into spaghetti squash expecting a pasta alternative, you’re going to be disappointed. I never feel like I am eating spaghetti when I twirl strands of squash on my fork, whether it’s zoodles or spaghetti squash. But I do like it for what it is.Continue reading
Wow. I first posted this in August of 2011! I love this recipe and continue to make it regularly, but the images (not the recipe) needed an upgrade. Continue reading
Hello, Friends. I’m checking in. I hope you are all staying healthy and sane right now. I just wanted to let you know that I am thinking about you all and I appreciate this community more than ever. Thank you for your feedback, encouragement, viewership, questions, and comments. Thank you for bringing my recipes into your kitchen and cooking them for your loved ones. Thank you for sharing your photos of your beautiful finished dishes and cooking with your kids. Please continue to encourage your friends and co-workers to cook healthy food at home. When you post a recipe on social media, any recipe, it inspires your community to do the same, to cook from scratch. You send a message that cooking nutritious food is important and doable.
I pulled together a collection of recipes that may help give you some ideas for “pantry ingredients.” You most likely have enough food at home and don’t need to go out. Stay home. Improvise with what you have. I can give you suggestions for substitutions if you’re stuck. But do stick to the foods you know keep you healthy and make you feel good. Continue reading
Ok, I’m going to come right out and say it – I’m not great at St. Patrick’s Day. I am not a corned beef girl. Cabbage, yes. Irish soda bread, ok (my recipe is great though!) Irish cream, not so much. When my kids were wee ones, I took advantage of the holiday and made so much green food for a week in anticipation of the holiday. Green muffins, green pancakes, green breakfast cookies, green smoothies, green risotto, you name it.Continue reading
Last week I told you I wasn’t going to post any more Thanksgiving recipes in order to encourage you to commit to a menu. Let’s hope that’s all set by now. If not, make the $15 investment in my Thanksgiving ebook and get going! What I like to post the week of Thanksgiving is a leftovers recipe that you can use in the days after the holiday.Continue reading
I don’t use the words “game changer” or “life changing” lightly. I mean for something to change the game, it has to be revolutionary. Uber has been life-altering. Cauliflower rice is a game changer. I could name a few more, like cooking a “spatchcocked” turkey. I didn’t even teach a turkey recipe in my classes this year because I can’t come up with a better recipe than this one right here that I taught last November. I also cooked two spatchcocked birds for my own personal Thanksgiving and I kept saying outloud, “I will never not cook a spatchcocked turkey ever again.” (Mom, I know there’s a double negative in that sentence. Just go with it.) Continue reading
Spring must be cookbook season, because I am loaded with new ones right now! My friend Liz Moody sent me her new book Healthier Together and it’s right up my alley. Liz is a great gal, health blogger and food writer. The book‘s premise is about cooking for two, but cooking together. I think this drives home a few important concepts: first, that it’s easier to achieve your healthful eating and lifestyle if you have someone else to do that with. Second, I can’t emphasize enough the role that community plays in our overall health. We need socialization, companionship and affection – both to give and receive. Even though I am very capable of cooking a meal by myself, I enjoy it so much more when my husband and kids are in the kitchen with me. And one of my favorite ways to spend my free time, besides being with my family, is cooking and eating with friends.Continue reading
