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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Ever thought of cheesecake as “refreshing”? Or “healthy”? If all you’ve had are typical cheesecakes, you’re probably saying “No!” That’s because typical cheesecakes are made with commercial cream cheeses that taste oily and flat. (Along with containing plenty of stabilizers and thickeners.) Typical cheesecakes are also made with heaping amounts of refined sugar in both the [...]
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Although we’re a few months away from prime pumpkin season, when I found a can of pumpkin at the back of my pantry last week, I couldn’t resist making muffins with it. You could just as easily use bananas if you’d like to take on a more summery approach — chocolate goes just as well [...]
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You tap a maple, you get maple syrup. You cut into the flower buds of a palm tree, you get palm nectar that you can cook down into palm sugar. (Specifically, you can tap sugar date palms, sago palms, and coconut palms.) If you let the palm sugar dry out and go from a semi-liquid [...]
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What’s in your freezer pantry? The space adjoining your fridge is just as useful and important as your cupboard shelves. Stashing away frozen fruits and veggies is a great way to make sure you always have a good stock of otherwise-perishable ingredients on hand, plus it’s far more tasty and economical to freeze your own [...]
Lemons are lovely, especially when you pair them with oats and almonds and eggs and call them breakfast. Baked goods (or leftover pancakes) are my favorite things to have for weekday breakfasts since they require zero work first thing in the morning. Fifteen minutes of effort once or twice a week can provide you with [...]
I’m always on the prowl for new unrefined sweeteners — not only are they a healthier alternative to heavily processed white sugar, unrefined sweeteners like maple syrup and honey have flavor instead of just being super-sweet. It’s fun to play with flavor pairings to see which sweetener you like with what. (I think honey is [...]
