If you’ve ever been to one of my culinary/health talks or have spent much time hanging out in my online kitchen, you know I’m forever singing the praises of plain whole-milk Greek yogurt. Why? For many reasons. It has one-quarter the sugar of low-fat flavored yogurt, for one thing. The ingredient list on Fage plain [...]
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Not too many fruits come into full bloom during the winter months, but members of the citrus family do. And the least-known (but possibly the most delicious and definitely the cutest!) member of the citrus family can only be found during the winter months. Enter kumquats! They’re tiny, oval-shaped orange citrus fruits that are curiously [...]
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Unless you’re allergic, you’ve probably had sesame in one form or another: tahini (which is sesame paste), sesame oil, or outright sesame seeds. But have you ever tried toasted sesame oil? It’s pressed from seeds that were roasted as opposed to raw. Much like the seeds themselves, the oil from the roasted version has a [...]
Although pumpkin has become our default winter squash for the holidays, from buttercup to butternut, plenty of other winter squash make great pies. My favorite is acorn because they’re so conveniently small and easy to deal with. And all those ridges mean that the squash won’t try to roll away while you’re cutting into it with [...]
Ounce for ounce, we spend a LOT more on beverages than we do on food. And I’m not even talking about alcoholic beverages. I’m talking about bottled water, bottled tea, bottled juice, pop, kombucha…all of it. While I like to splurge on fizzy mineral water once in a while — as much as I wish [...]
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I don’t have many fancy gadgets in the kitchen — sous-vide cooking and flavored foams just seem like too much work to me — but I consider my ice cream maker to be an indispensable culinary aid. Ditto for my blender. If you have those two kitchen helpers, making ice cream becomes ridiculously easy. Not [...]
About a year ago, I attended a potluck with some very unique culinary contributions. Probably the most unique of them all was a bowl of what I’d assumed were whole-wheat noodles tossed with alfredo sauce. Darn, I remember thinking. Guess I gotta avoid that — it’s definitely a mess of gluten. I proceeded to happily [...]
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Interesting note about cashews: the nut actually grows off of the end of a fruit. The fruit — called a “cashew apple” — is also edible. Unfortunately, it doesn’t travel well; the only time I’ve ever seen anything made of cashew apple Stateside was a bottled Brazilian beverage I stumbled across in (of all places) [...]
What to do when a friend gives you the gift of perfectly sweet honeydew? It depends how quickly you want to enjoy it! I thought about blending it with coconut milk and honey to make ice cream, but then I decided that I didn’t want to wait for the ice cream maker to do its [...]
