Have you tried black (aka purple) rice?
February 8th, 2010 - 0 comments.
Since I just bought some purple rice for the first time in my life yesterday, I thought I’d share the experience with you.
I love rice. I love jasmine scented Thai rice, I love Italian Arborio rice, I love brown rice, I love wild rice (okay, not technically rice, but more of a grass that blooms), I love red rice and I even will enjoy parboiled rice a couple times a year. I’ve been eating rice as long as I’ve been eating hot peppers.
The native rice dish from my part of the world originated in Africa and came to South America, Central America and the Caribbean from slavery. It’s one of the rare dishes that most people who have any black and/or Hispanic heritage eat: rice and red beans!
My rice and beans is a much healthier option than what my grandmother use to prepare. She had this habit of double frying the beans after they had boiled and before adding the rice to the mixture. She used to add spices to the fried beans to make them stand out even more and they were incredibly delicious. Continue reading: Have you tried black (aka purple) rice? »
Topics: Foods for health, SuperFoods
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Digg ThisMeatless Mondays: Fall Vegetables in Red Wine Sauce
February 8th, 2010 - 0 comments.
***It’s easy to go meatless with a vegetarian recipe to help you eat more vegetables!***
Shallots, porcini mushrooms and red wine elevate a lowly mushroom-onion sauce, turning simple braised vegetables into an elegant autumn dinner. Note that the long list of ingredients makes this look like a complicated recipe, but it’s really not hard at all! Just start making the sauce first, so that you can prep the vegetables while it simmers.
>>>INGREDIENTS<<<
4 cups boiling water
1/3 cup dried porcini mushrooms (about 1/2 ounce)
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cups diced carrot
1-1/2 cups quartered button mushrooms Continue reading: Meatless Mondays: Fall Vegetables in Red Wine Sauce »
Topics: Go Meatless!, Healthy Recipes
Homemade salad dressing recipes are so easy to make
February 7th, 2010 - 0 comments.
I don’t like the taste of bottle salad dressings because I always find there is a strong artificial taste to them. I also find they often contain sugar and I try to avoid adding unnecessary sugar to my diet as much as possible.
I challenge you to read the ingredients on a bottle of store bought salad dressing and you’ll see. I think the only place I’d attempt to buy a bottle salad dressing might be Whole Foods Market.
I learned how to prepare homemade salad dressing from my Parisian-ex-husband at the very beginning of our marriage because he was quite adamant that he would NEVER-EVER-EVER eat a store bought salad dressing. Because he’s French, he always insisted on using a whisk or fork to emulsify the Dijon mustard and the oil, but I’m not the best with the whisk and just like when I have to prepare a Béchamel sauce, I’ve found a short cut to preparing the perfect homemade salad dressing.
I collect my old jam jars and put all my ingredients inside the jar and shake! It literally takes me five minutes to prepare a homemade salad dressing recipe and I know EXACTLY which ingredients are part of the mix. Continue reading: Homemade salad dressing recipes are so easy to make »
BEST broccoli salad EVER!
February 7th, 2010 - 0 comments.
***This broccoli salad is the best I’ve ever eaten!***
Not long ago, I attended an event for the one year anniversary of John Berardi’s Spezzatino magazine.
Spezzatino is a magazine on healthy eating that donates its proceeds to support healthy food banks (aka ensuring that food banks are able to give healthy foods to people who are in need and not only processed foods).
You’ll hear me talk more about Spezzatino very soon because I’m now a contributor and I’ll provide them with a few of my favourite healthy recipes and I’ll be tracking my food travels for them!
Oh, just in case you were wondering “what does spezzatino mean?”, it’s an Italian recipe and the first recipe that was published in the magazine. It was a contribution from publisher and business partner to John Berardi, Phil Caravaggio. The spezzatino recipe is so outrageously delicious (they were serving it at the event) that I had to beg to get my hands on it and I will be testing it in my kitchen soon. Continue reading: BEST broccoli salad EVER! »
Topics: Cook Healthy Recipes, Healthy Recipes
Wolf Blitzer talks about food!
February 6th, 2010 - 0 comments.
I think Wolf Blitzer has the coolest name. Before even doing a search on his name, I thought to myself, this guy has got to be of German descent.
Well, it turns out that I was right and that Wolf Blitzer was born in Germany!
In one of my old issues of Bon Appetit magazine, I found a great food-chat with Mr. Blitzer and I thought it really cool to learn more about which foods he likes to eat.
Bon Appetit: You grew up in Buffalo. Any local specialties come to mind? Continue reading: Wolf Blitzer talks about food! »
Topics: Celebrities Talk about Food, Celebrities’ Favourite Foods, What Celebrities are Eating?
Keep your brain young
February 6th, 2010 - 0 comments.
I couldn’t resist posting this article from Dr. John Berardi’s site.
As you know, I’m a huge supporter of Dr. John Berardi’s Precision Nutrition program because I use it myself!
I also think that Dr. Berardi has a really incredible approach to nutrition and physical health.
Bryan Walsh is part of his team of advisers and when I read this article, I know I had to share it with my readers because it’s quite the eye opener. Continue reading: Keep your brain young »
Topics: More Healthy Stuff
Domino Pasta in a bowl is a dangerous CRIME!
February 5th, 2010 - 1 comment.
Who woke up one day at Domino’s headquarters and decided to concoct an insanely fatty dish that is honestly just so bad there are no words?
I was watching one of those daytime shows where the author of “Eat This Not That” was talking about the Domino Pasta bowl.
Since I don’t eat at fast food restaurants, I had never heard of the Domino Pasta bowl in my life until that show.
It turns out that in an effort to win the fast-food-restaurant-popularity-game, Domino churned out five-flavours of pasta housed in a bread bowl (pasta primavera, chicken carbonara, three cheese Mac-N-Cheese (OMG mac and cheese AND pizza!!!), Italian sausage marinara and chicken Alfredo) . Continue reading: Domino Pasta in a bowl is a dangerous CRIME! »
Tapping World Summit testimonials
February 5th, 2010 - 0 comments.
Tapping is a technique that combines ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology with startling results. In fact, Paul McKenna has used this method to help a number of his clients deal with weight issues and binge eating.
Tapping has been extremely effective at helping people get over fear, anxiety, trauma, phobias, even pain and excess weight with a simple tapping technique that you can easily learn and apply yourself . . . and do it right from the comfort of your own home? Tapping has also been linked to cancer recovery!
The First Tapping World Summit (in March 2008) had over 81,000 attendees!
If you are looking to heal from the pain of anxiety and stress, this proven method might actually be worth you taking a few minutes to learn more.
This event is monumental!
There is a new DVD series that shows you how to effectively use the tapping technique yourself from the comfort of your home or during breaks at the office.
The movie teaches you about releasing pain, how our emotions affect our body, releasing trauma, how our childhood is affecting us today, how to clear limiting beliefs, using Tapping to make the Law of Attraction work for you, and much more!
Continue reading: Tapping World Summit testimonials »
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