Have FUN with your food!!

For the longest time, my husband would take a tortilla out of the bag, flop it over a metal one cup measuring cup, toast it in the toaster oven until browned, flip it upside down, burn at least one finger, and then fill the bowl-ish shape with the usual Mexican fixin’s. Tasted fine, but the…

Yes.. Brussel Sprout Pizza!

Intimidated by vegetarian cooking? I get it. Embracing anything new and different requires patience, experimentation and a willingness to bite into more than a few yucky final products. But sometimes.. sometimes you just get lucky. The following pizza recipe was originally nothing more than the happy collision of some veggies I found in my fridge…

What did I learn this week?

I learned that cauliflower hummus is a great alternative to butter on baked potatoes. Just ladle on a tablespoon or two and enjoy the creaminess and flavor. I learned that being judgmental can have long term implications. Case in point..I always thought it was ridiculous to put dogs in “baby carriages.” And now here I…

Love at Second Bite?

I have always been open to the idea that I did something wrong the first time I made these for dinner.. We bought the Beyond Meat burgers, cooked them on the grill, placed them on buns, added toppings and almost gagged at our first bites. For the life of me I could NOT figure out…

Your health- Guarding the front door.

So there I was, lying on the exam table, staring at the ceiling making small talk with the ultrasound tech who was waving her magic wand all around my jellied-belly. I had been bent over with a bad stomach ache for days and my doc wanted to rule out gallstones.  The good news was that…

How to make it work..

My husband is a cheese cravin’, chocolate sneakin’, prime rib lovin’ man with stubbornly high cholesterol. So how on earth do you keep a guy like that on the healthy eatin’-train? It’s all about feel, flavor and fullness. FEEL- While you can’t fool anyone into thinking that thick strips of spicy, grilled zucchini are in…