How to Make Bone Broth

My readers and my students are very in the know when it comes to food trends, especially the healthy ones.  So I’m sure you have all heard about bone broth and how it’s taking over the world.  It’s the newest thing!  It’s revolutionary!  So funny.  Bone broth is no trend, but in fact something that […]

Chocolate Covered Raw Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites Recipe (refined sugar-free)

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t love raw cookie dough?  Not even the potential threat of salmonella from raw eggs in the dough deters people from eating it straight out of the bowl before it turns into actual cookies.  Guilty!  But normal cookie dough recipes have loads of processed sugar and white flour which […]

Luscious Lemon Bars from Whole Food Energy Cookbook

My friend Elise Museles over at the blog Kale and Chocolate recently released her cookbook, “Whole Food Energy,” and I couldn’t wait to dig into it.  I don’t normally say that about a cookbook, but hers is loaded with recipes for nutritious, energy-boosting snacks, which is where I sometimes fall short on a wide variety of good […]

Cassoulet-Style Chicken and Sausage Recipe

Did you notice a French theme happening on the blog?  As soon as I remembered the French onion soup recipe I taught a few years ago, it also occurred to me that I had never posted this chicken and white beans recipe which I developed for a teaching trip in Southwest France many years ago. […]

French Onion Soup Recipe

If it wasn’t winter before this week, it sure is now. Not in Southern California, of course.  But for the rest of the country.  Although people in LA dress like it’s zero degrees when it’s 55.  It’s totally funny.  I cracked up when I saw this post on Pinterest last week: So I figured that everyone would […]