I teach a breakfast cooking class once a year and in this past one, savory steel cut oats were on the menu. That's right, savory oats, as opposed to the standard oatmeal with sweet toppings like bananas and brown sugar or raisins and peanut butter. There were quite a few raised eyebrows and ...
Mexican-style Sauteed Greens Recipe
You know what never happens? I never make at home for dinner something that I am currently teaching in one of my classes. Why? Because I normally eat it several times a week and I am not super motivated to eat it any more than that, no matter how good it is! This is even more true towards the ...
Kale and White Bean Minestrone Recipe
I think that sports are awesome for kids. They're fun! The kids get exercise, make new friends, learn about competition and trying your best, and lots of other life lessons which I am constantly repeating to my children to the point of annoyance. "It's not over 'til it's over!" "Today is a new ...
Kale salad with creamy lemon dressing (dairy-free recipe)
One of my students was joking with me a few weeks ago about who does the PR for the Kale Board, because they're doing a pretty good job! Think about it, who was eating kale 10 years ago? I wasn't, but I now buy several bunches of kale every week and consume it in so many different ways from juices ...
Kale, mushroom and brown rice bake recipe
Daughter #1 is my 15-year-old who used to turn her nose at her plate if food groups were touching. So you can imagine how very satisfying it was for me when she sighed, "I could eat Kale, Mushroom and Brown Rice Bake every day." Sigh. Actually, both my daughters are crazy about this rice and ...
Kale Pesto Recipe
When I was a child, my family ate pesto all the time in the summer and early fall. In fact, to me the smell of basil, garlic and cheese in the food processor is synonymous with warm, lazy days at the beach or on my parents' hammock under a big, breezy tree. It was one of the few things my mom made ...
Farro and kale with roasted pears and turkey bacon
I hope your Christmas was merry. We have been sharing a lovely week with my family in New York. My mother really outdid herself and gave me Christmas day off, which was a gift unto itself. If you read my post last week, you may remember the multitude of Christmas Eve traditions that continue to ...
Spaghetti squash with kale and chickpeas
Did you participate in the low-carb craze of the 90's? If you did, you may have eaten a lot of spaghetti squash with tomato sauce trying to convince your carb-starved body that you were actually eating pasta. The body is no fool, though. At least mine isn't. I ate lots of "spaghetti" for a good ...
Late summer minestrone
Oh, I am not very good at goodbyes. And saying farewell to summer is just inevitable now, isn't it? My minestrone soup is one of those recipes that bridges summer and fall. Zucchini and tomatoes are still plentiful in the farmer's markets, but the weather is showing signs of cooling down. We've ...
Kale chips
My favorite line from "Modern Family" this season was when Mitchell returns from the farmer's market and declares, "Did you hear? Kale is the new spinach?!" Damn right, it is. Even though kale seems to be the new "it" vegetable, I meet lots of people in my classes who are still intimidated by ...
Mushroom-barley soup with kale recipe
I was craving a hearty, meal-in-a-bowl soup for dinner last night. Something I could pull together before the kids returned home from school and that I could pack in their thermoses for lunch the next day. Mushroom-barley soup came to mind in an instant. I taught this soup in a class back in ...