With my 92 year old mom finally out of rehab, I’m reverting for a few weeks to a decidedly Italian orientation in my cooking to try and please her somewhat finicky palate. When my hubby enthusiastically returned home with two large eggplants he’d gotten for a buck at Harris Teeter, my first ...
Mediterranean Cutlets for an Easy Weeknight Meal
With my 92 year-old mother in rehab following a hip fracture and surgery, my time for cooking healthy meals for my family has been in short supply this past month. Probably, not unlike your home - since each of us has a unique set of family trials, triumphs, and tribulations to get through at any ...
Easy Chick’n Creole
One of the reasons that carnivores like boneless chicken breasts is that they are versatile and can be prepared in an almost infinite variety of ways. Funny thing. That’s the very same reason that I like Gardein Chick’n Scallopini. Since tomatoes are often present in my cooking and I’d made ...
Eliminating the “V” Words
According to an article in Food & Wine Magazine, we should stop labeling food as vegan or vegetarian to get more folks to eat it. The source interview in Food Navigator with Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director of Good Food Institute, cited a UK study that eliminating a separate ...
Could Feijoada be the tastiest black beans and rice dish on the planet?
Feijoada has always been one of my favorite vegan dishes. I was introduced to it as a junior at Oberlin College when I read Frances Moore Lappe's seminal book, Diet for a Small Planet. Since meat analogues and plant-based protein products weren't around in the 1970's, my college version contained ...
French Onion Soup Redux
On a bitter cold day, there is nothing better than a bowl of French Onion Soup. Unfortunately, this is one of the soups I can never order in a restaurant because it is always made with beef stock. I’ve updated the recipe from Fool a Carnivore to include a terrific product that I didn’t know about ...
Baked Ziti with Vegan Sausage
Belated Happy New Year! If your holidays were as hectic as mine were – followed by a seemingly endless string of days of bone-chilling temperatures – you may be looking for a fresh take on a comfort food favorite. One of my all-time favorite comfort foods is baked ziti – but for a ...
Fettuccine with Spinach Mushroom Carbonara Sauce
With December business deadlines, holiday parties, and Cyber Monday morphing into Cyber week, many of you (like me) may be short on time to make healthy meals for your family. Since Carbonara sauce uses raw eggs, I've always been worried that the eggs won't fully cook as they are being tossed ...
