Classic Coleslaw Recipe

Can we talk about mayonnaise for a minute?  Are you ok with it or does it repulse you?  Because from my experience, there’s no in between.  I have no issue with mayo, but so many people have textural issues with creamy food.  I have many students who won’t eat bananas, avocado or mayo. Some people […]

7-Layer Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe

I eat salads all year, but I eat them much more often in the summer when my family finds it perfectly acceptable to eat a salad as a meal.  I have also trained my husband to no longer ask “where’s the meat?” Or chicken.  He has really come around to a more plant-based way of eating.  At […]

Chicken Enchiladas Rojas with Homemade Enchilada Sauce

This recipe is “the whole enchilada,” so to speak.  I’m giving you a method for poaching the chicken, making the enchilada sauce from scratch, and assembling the actual enchiladas.  The only thing we’re not covering today is how to make corn tortillas, and I am sure homemade corn tortillas are the only thing that would […]

Baked Asian Turkey Meatballs Recipe

Why is it that I don’t like meat, but I can handle meatballs?  Maybe because it doesn’t resemble actual meat?  Most people, both kids and adults, like meatballs.  I have made many meatball-related recipes in my classes, and they are always quick favorites.  I grew up thinking a meatball was only something simmered in a […]

Sunrise Nori Wraps with Spicy Tahini Drizzle from the “Eating Clean” Cookbook

I am really proud of my friend Amie Valpone, who is known in the blog world as The Healthy Apple.  She has a new book being released today called Eating Clean:  The 21-Day Plan to Detox, Fight Inflammation and Reset Your Body.  The book outlines her journey of how she healed from a decade (yes, a decade) […]