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Well T-Day is here. I made all the sweet potato and pumpkin pies yesterday, the only challenge coming from the gluten free pie crust mix. I used The Gluten-Free Pantry’s Perfect Pie Crust Mix, which makes two pie crusts. Unfortunately, the crust was too dry even with 12 tablespoons of butter (!) and a little [...]
Here’s another Thanksgiving holiday recipe from Jonny Bowden’s Healthiest Meals on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What Meals to Eat and Why. Since my daughter is allergic to tree nuts and my mother-in-law is on a gluten-free diet, I’ll be using a GF pie crust mix instead of making the almond-oat crust. I’ll also [...]
Dave Grotto’s book 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life features this recipe by Chef Kyle Shadix, a Culinary Institute of America graduate who has an M.S. in nutrition. Pomegranate-Cranberry Sauce Recent studies link pomegranate juice to lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and blood pressure. Ingredients: 2 cups (or 16 fluid ounces) 100% pomegranate juice 1 [...]
Maybe you want to smoke your turkey this year but you don’t want to go out and buy a smoker and can’t find one to borrow. Or maybe you think it’s just too darn cold to cook outside this time of year. This is where Mindy Merrell and R.B. Quinn, authors of the book, Cheater [...]
This year I’m making Dr. Bowden’s Citrus-Stuffed Herbed Turkey, but we’ll be smoking it. We smoked our turkey last year using Alton Brown’s Honey Brined Smoked Turkey recipe. It was the best turkey I’ve ever made according to my husband, and I’ve made some fancy Thanksgiving turkeys over the years. (The stock I made from [...]
Well, I thought my Thanksgiving menu was set. Then I opened up the latest enewsletter from BlogHer and I saw this post from my friend, Kalyn of Kalyn’s Kitchen, Make-Ahead or Crockpot Recipes Can Help with Timing for Thanksgiving Dinner. Thanksgiving dishes in the crockpot. Oh joy, something I haven’t done before! Many of the [...]
Staying Healthy on a Budget Here’s some great tips on saving money while getting healthy: Brandi shares with us a great article on 10 Ways to Diet on a Budget. Susan helps the parents among us learn how to talk to our kids about a tight budget. Jacqueline offers us the Secrets of Budgeting for [...]
What a bunch of turkeys – not! Here are the winners in my Win a Butterball turkey for Thanksgiving contest: Shannon of Charming Bitch Jen S. Yvonne of The Low Carb Band-It Kimberly of Cooking with Kimberly Deborah W. Speaking of Thanksgiving, I’ll be posting my Thanksgiving menu here in the upcoming days. (Click here [...]
More and more parents are looking for organic prepackaged snacks and juice boxes. And companies like R.W. Knudsen are listening. They now offer parents a great alternative to traditional juice boxes, R.W. Knudsen Family’s Sensible Sippers . And this is not just organic juice in a box featuring a cartoon character – in this case [...]
November is American Diabetes Month, a time to bring even greater awareness and attention to the seriousness of diabetes, its deadly complications, and the importance of proper diabetes control. As I learned at the Quaker Oats Living Proof event, having diabetes can lead to heart disease as well as stroke, kidney disease, blindness and amputations. [...]
Just a reminder that my Win a Butterball turkey for Thanksgiving contest ends tomorrow night at midnight. (That’s November 18, 2008 at midnight MT.) Holiday season is a challenging time for dieters or for anyone who is just trying to eat healthfully. I’m a great believer that an occasional indulgence is good for the soul, [...]
Last year the Denver Post dining critic Tucker Shaw held a blind tasting of turkeys to find out if there were any differences between supermarket brands and the more expensive natural varieties. He had two Johnson & Wales University students cook up six turkeys, then had a panel of food writers, family members, chefs and [...]
I’m back from the Quaker Oats Living Proof blogger event. It was wonderful! I met some terrific bloggers, and learned an incredible amount about heart health, which I hope to share soon. One of the highlights was meeting Stephanie Izard, the winner of season four of Bravo’s Top Chef. She gave us a short cooking [...]
I’m on my way to Chicago today to hang out with the folks from Quaker Oats and a bunch of very cool food, health and diet bloggers. In no particular order, they are… Carla of MizFit Online Roni of Roni’s Weigh Tanya of I Ate Pie Lisa of Workout Mommy Monique of Big Fat Deal [...]
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