Your diet always important and couldn’t be more important when the body is compromised. Don’t give it another fight by feeding it nutrient poor crap – “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” hippocrates Being in this line of work opens me up to meeting some of the most amazing similar thinkers […]
Archives for June 2012
Toasted Sesame Carrot and Goat Cheese Salad
Tonight’s dinner was decidedly orange. It wasn’t planned that way but more ended up that way out of necessity. We are tee minus 10 days from leaving for holiday so I am trying to buy as little groceries as possible and use up as many perishables as I can invent into a meal. Last weekends […]
Watermelon Salad part deux
I know I know……ANOTHER watermelon salad!?!? Most people don’t even have one in their recipe repertoire but here I am posting another one….I’m crazy like that. I love salads that have some fruit in them or in this case, that are almost all fruit. It all plays into the Sweet/Salty/Savory combo that I adore……having interesting […]
Riping off the Kofta
I love it when I am so inspired by another recipe that I have to make it my own….this happened to me recently. Two things pushed me over the edge to have to make this….my version of it. The first is this amazing Afghany restaurant up the street from us. Their menu is amazingly spiced […]
Sweet and Salty Coconut Popcorn
If you are going to temp me with sweets it is the food group known as ‘pastry’ that makes me almost deny my gluten issues. If eating gluten didn’t cause me to spend a few hours bent over in pain and running a fever the first thing I would eat is a cheese danish from […]
Experimenting with Shrimp Curry
I am thankful every day that my kids will eat spicy food….not too spicy but they will eat a good curry…and life just isn’t worth living without curry. We have had some record breaking heat. With the humidity it has been more like late July. When it is hot like this no one wants to […]
New York City Bans the Big Stuff – Sugar
You have probably heard on the news cycles that Mayor Bloomberg of the city of New York is trying to ban the sale of sugary drinks in all sizes larger than 16 oz. The measure would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy-based drinks like milkshakes, or alcoholic beverages; it would not extend to […]