Recipe: Garden Pie
Get your veggies in with this tasty vegetable pie! Ingredients: 2/3 cup chopped fresh broccoli 3 TBS chopped red onion 3 TBS chopped sweet red pepper 3 TBS diced tomato 3 TBS...
View ArticleFood-Borne Illnesses: Listeria
Over the last couple of months, there have been multiple recall alerts for products containing contaminated hard-boiled eggs. The chief culprit causing the recalls is Listeria monocytogenes, a...
View ArticleWhole, Real, Natural, Organic Food – The Kashi Conspiracy
I overheard a conversation the other day about food, since, as always, my radar goes up when food is discussed. They were talking about the Kashi issue – quite a few of the ingredients in Kashi’s...
View ArticleNever Too Old To Spice Things Up
I love spices. I have a whole collection of dried spices and herbs in my pantry, which I discovered when I moved several weeks ago. When I was packing things up, I was horrified to find my pantry...
View ArticleOrange A-Peel: Quick, Refreshing Uses For Oranges
Ever have one of those cravings for iced tea, or a cool refreshing drink, but you didn’t want to make enough for a zillion and going to the store to pick up a “who-knows-what’s-in-it” bottle of tea?...
View ArticleAll That’s Frozen Isn’t Good
Albert Brooks is one of my favorite writers/actors/directors. His movies are always spot-on, which is why the latest kitchen situation is both hilarious and embarrassing. In his movie, “Mother,”...
View ArticleCooking For One – The Laziness Factor
As a whole, humans are lazy … we hate to admit it, but there it is. We want someone to buy our food, make it and bring it to us without us having to get up out of our chairs. Our whole worlds are...
View ArticleMelons, Lettuce and Ground Beef – Oh
It’s that time of year again … time for all the summer produce we love to now be potentially deadly for us. We greet yet another week with recalls of lettuce, melons and ground beef due to Listeria,...
View ArticleGuest Post: HIP4Kids
Note: Today’s article comes from Chris Daly, founder of HIP4Kids, a wonderful organization founded in 2001, that’s working to get children back into the kitchen, especially now that home economics...
View ArticleDo Food Producers Care About Consumers?
Are you a farmer? Do you grow/produce your own food? No? Then every day, what you eat and, ultimately, your health, are at the mercy of food producers. How much do food producers, though, really...
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