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After reading Anticancer: A New Way of Life I knew green tea should be something I drank every day. But since it’s summer, I hardly felt like having a hot cup of green tea and found it was too much of a hassle to brew a batch to cool for iced green tea. So when [...]
Dr. Susan Mitchell is an advocate of nutrition education and believes in integrating nutrition and exercise into busy lifestyles to achieve better health, increased energy and creativity. As a self-proclaimed chocoholic, she believes that realistic amounts of almost any food can be part of a healthy diet, too. She also has a fantastic blog where [...]
I’ve been trying to avoid foods with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) for awhile now, and one of the biggest challenges is trying to find barbeque sauce without HFCS. I’ve found a few (a local steak house’s BBQ sauce and a few by Tastefully Simple), but they’re so darn expensive. An alternative is making your [...]
My family and I have become obsessed by Top Chef Masters. I’ve stayed up to watch the repeat so often that it’s messed up my morning work out routine. (It’s hard to wake up at 5:30 a.m. when you didn’t go to bed until 11 p.m.) We’ve been rooting for Rick Bayless the most, but [...]
There’s been a lot of discussion and some criticism in the mom blogosphere on accepting conference sponsorships. Some have called it selling out or consider it giving away our power and voices to the lowest bidder. Personally, I don’t see that my working with sponsors is any different than a professional athlete like Dana Torres [...]
You must have retro cocktails at your Mad Men viewing party. But considering the show is on Sunday night, you probably don’t want to go overboard with the alcohol – though that never seems to deter the folks at Sterling Cooper from boozing it up. The healthiest of the retro cocktails – hey, it has [...]
Shrimp is a wonderful party food since 2 ounces is equal to 1 Weight Watchers POINT. And if you’ve ever weighed out shrimp, that’s a lot of shrimp. Since shrimp cocktail always reminds me of gambling in Vegas and listening to the Rat Pack, it’s the perfect retro food for a Mad Men viewing party. [...]
If you’re a fan of Mad Men, you’ve eagerly waited for the summer to be over so you could watch the premier this Sunday. So why not celebrate by having a Mad Men viewing cocktail party? If a retro cocktail party sounds like a fattening, greasy food orgy of Swedish meatballs, Devil’s Food spread on [...]
One of the foodie highlights of the recent BlogHer09 conference was seeing Rick Bayless do a cooking demonstration at the National Pork Board’s booth. I’ve been a fan of Rick’s since I first saw his PBS cooking show, Mexico–One Plate at a Time, about nine years ago. It was when we first moved into our [...]
Since last spring, I’ve read several diet and health books such as: Jillian Michaels' Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body! Anticancer: A New Way of Life The Skinny: On Losing Weight Without Being Hungry-The Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss Success (read my review [...]
This was my favorite recipe of the Common Threads blogger event since I adore sweet potatoes and don’t make them much since the rest of my family isn’t so crazy about them. According to my Common Threads handout, sweet potatoes are a nutrition star! They’re an excellent source of Vitamin A (good for vision, healthy skin, [...]
I wasn’t part of the Common Threadsblogger event group that made the Jerk Chicken, but I did watch Chef Josh make the rub. He had the kids remove the leaves from the thyme as he explained about Caribbean spices. The original recipe calls for chicken wings, but the kids used strips of chicken breast that [...]
The most important thing about blogging is that it enables you to reach out and connect with people. So when Edelman PR invited me to the Quaker Oats sponsored blogger event at the Washburne Culinary Institute for Common Threads, I was thrilled to go. I knew connecting with the other bloggers as well as the [...]
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