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Everything you always wanted to know about garlic and a vegetarian Jacques Pepin recipe
I just adore garlic.
Take a boring tomato sauce and throw in a small handful of minced (chopped fine) garlic and suddenly it’s got great taste. Take some sauteed vegetables and add some sliced garlic to the oil and, yum yum. Take nearly any savory dish and throw in garlic and suddenly it just comes alive.
But [...]
If you want to make the husband happy, make potatoes – and here’s a vegetarian Todd English recipe to help you do so with style
If you want to make my husband happy, make potatoes. Any old way, just as long as it is potatoes.
And I do. But I needed a new recipe (Want the old recipe? Here it is! It’s the great Julia Child and Jacques Pépin recipe for Souffleéd Potatoes).
So I searched for potato recipes. And I found [...]
Acai juice versus the free radicals
The acai berry is all the rage these days because it is a marvelous antioxidant. We want antioxidants in our diet because they fight free radicals, those nasty little molecules that cause everything from premature aging to heart disease.
Of course, you can also get antioxidants from other sources, including pomegranates and blueberries. But Acai is [...]
Healthy fast foods: Cookies and bars woo hoo!
Two posts ago we started looking at Kashi foods. In that post, we looked at cereal. In the last post, we looked at a Kashi cracker.
And, while both were tasty, the ingredient lists were just not good enough to persuade us to buy them again.
So, today, we’re looking at more Kashi products. But today it [...]
Healthy fast foods: Polly wanna cracker
In the last post, we looked at Kashi cereal. We liked the cereal well enough to finish it, but not well enough to buy it again.
It did, however, prompt us to try another cereal, Kashi’s 7 Whole Grain Flakes. But this wasn’t anywhere near as tasty as the cereal we reviewed, so it’s just sitting [...]
Healthy fast foods: Cereal for breakfast or lunch or dinner
We may yearn to eat like 18th century peasants, but, alas, we live like 21st century office workers.
Which means, time is a real issue.
So the compromise is fast food that’s healthy. Think I can’t pull it off? Well follow me.Healthy frozen foodA while back, I devoted an entire week to Amy’s frozen foods. We looked [...]
Dear PR person who is making money marketing products that help make our kids fat and unhealthy
As PR people become more and more aware of blogs, and more and more aware of what a nice marketing tool they can be, more and more of them offer to send me products in the hopes that I’ll talk about them.
Which is how the next product ended up on my desk.
Stamped with the USDA [...]
The very best veggie burger. And the very worst!
Want to know which is the very best veggie burger and which is the worst? You’re in luck because Consumer Reports just put twelve veggie burgers to the test.
The most delicious veggie burgersSo which were the best two veggie burgers? And which were the worst? Let’s see, shall we . . .The second best veggie [...]
Everything old is new again and a vegetarian recipe to prove it
If you are at all like me, then there are blogs and Websites you trip across, mean to bookmark, then lose only to stumble across at some later date with as much delight as you would banging into an old friend at a street corner.
The Old Foodie is the quintessential version of that for me.
The [...]
A vegetarian Mother’s Day gift: A gift bag that’s trying
What if you don’t know what to get your mom? Then I know where you can go and see all sorts of gift ideas. But what if you know exactly what your mom would like? Well, I also know where you can create your own gift.
And, good news, these are the same place.
Which means this [...]