Your Easter Table

What comes to mind when you think of a traditional Easter Holiday? Kids gathering candy during the Easter Egg Hunt, then running around on a sugar high? A table set with dishes included Baked Ham from a tin with pineapples baked in?   Asparagus laden with Hollandaise?  Lemon-scented Easter breads with frosting? For me, not […]

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HOUR IN THE KITCHEN (FOOD PREP 101)

You’ve made the decision to up your healthy eating game. You’ve even gone as far as learning where to get the best buys on organic veggies, which properly sourced proteins are most accessible to you seasonally and have begun a little foray here and there into the kitchen using a few delicious sounding recipes you’ve […]

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Real Food, Healthy Gut, Optimal Health

“A diet full of highly processed foods with added sugars and salt promoted gut microbes linked to obesity, heart disease and diabetes” was the opening line in a recent piece in the New York Times (1). Seems pretty straightforward, doesn’t it? Then why is it that so many are still struggling with making the healthiest […]

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Braising: Easier Than You Might Think!

When you see a photo of a delish recipe such as the one shown above, braised short ribs with cauliflower mash, what comes to mind? Something that looks amazing but too complicated to cook? Or a dish that you just don’t have time to prepare? Perhaps too rich and sinful to actually be good for […]

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