It's 3 am and I can't sleep but it's hard to complain. After 2 weeks in Europe I have a bad case of jet lag and thank goodness I have a great book to keep me ...
I shamed myself the other week when I invited my dear friends who are Vegan over for dinner and we started to discuss the menu.
"So I'm not sure what to make because I know you are Vegan," I said.
"Don't worry, we will bring a Vegan App and a Vegan Pizza."
"Wait, I invited you guys."
"It's ok don't bother."
I let them bring the pizza and the App.
"Really Felice.....this is so not OK," I chided myself.
"You should know better. You're smart and love to learn so you can do this...you can learn what to make for your Vegan friends.
More and more of my friends are becoming Vegan and rather than educate myself about what I can serve them when they come over, I keep asking the same dumb questions about whether this or that is ok. I should know better!
I mean what's so hard about this? Roast the veggies and don't use butter...use olive oil. No you can't have Cobb Salad with cheese and bacon. Do you know why...
Chia seeds. Hemp seeds. Flax. Nutritional yeast. Liquid aminos. I ask you. Did your mother ever sprinkle nutritional yeast on your frozen dinner? Chia on your canned green beans? I think not.
"Cheeseburgerfriesandacoke."
That was one word to me, for decades, from elementary school through my forty's at least. For years growing up, we'd go to the local diner, The Golden Coach, or just "The Coach" for those in the know. But it could have been any restaurant. I barely needed to look at a menu. When the waitress came by, my mouth just went on automatic pilot.
I am a real foodie. I love to cook. Entertaining my family and friends around my table is my favorite thing ever. I worked in a restaurant kitchen. I've been to cooking school. I follow a million food bloggers. So I am not a culinary neophyte.
But I want to embrace this new healthier way of eating...so, as my title here asks, I go in search of the answer to my question, "What's a Chia? What's a Hemp?"...
Jello is just so 50's but now it's a thing. There are recipes for jello parfaits everywhere and we particularly loved this one for Valentines' Day.
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This healthy vegetable soup is delicious. You won't be able to stop watching this video from Frische Rezepte but you have to click through the link below to ...
So here's what you need to know about Intermittent Fasting:
Breakfast being the most important meal of the day is wrong;
It is more important when you eat than what you eat;
Exercise more and eat less doesn’t work. Calorie counting doesn’t work. Healthy aging is all about Intermittent Fasting. Listen to this Ted Talk by Cynthia Thurlow and see if this is for you....
This creamy, naturally sweet non-dairy milk alternative is here to stay.
It started with soy milk. Then, almond milk made its debut. Now, oat milk has become...
I am a stress eater and holiday time is my trigger. Without an eating plan the rabbit hole to pantry carbs grows larger as my list of things to do grows longer....
I find the name of cocktails so intriguing. We created the The Greg Allman.
When Greg Allman died, we wanted to create a drink in his honor. Naturally, we started with peaches and bourbon. Listening to his bluesy voice sing Melissa in the backyard, we swirled the cocktail stick and nibbled the peaches, time stamping a summer evening with other boomers....
Do you want to become a healthier version of yourself? Sometimes, it feels like there is a long road ahead before meeting those goals. Here are 5 simple steps y...
Truth be told, it took decades of lying for me to realize my fudge was really the best. For so long I felt guilty about the little secret I was keeping. Passing the recipe off as my own, was not really the truth. I said it was a secret family recipe. Lie!...
If you've tried buying yeast, you know how popular bread baking has become during Covid. All my kids have got their starters going and it's become a "thing" and the Sourdough craze is in full swing. Have you tried? Watch this!...
Felice loves my mason jars. When we teamed up to cook a couple years ago, she stood there marveling at the line-up of homemade condiments, confits, and pickled vegetables, on the top shelf of my fridge. I learned this trick from the Gjelina cookbook by Travis Lett. Making my own condiments has become one of my favorite cooking pastimes, and anyone who has eaten at my place is knows the benefits. ...
Watch this video to learn what foods you should add to your plate. These are easy foods to access. Did you know tart cherries reduce inflammation? How about fe...
Before we continue with alternatives to our main course, we wanted to slip in an original Julia Childs Turkey making video which will send you back...such fun to watch....
Have you had a DXA scan? If not read this. I'm passing on learnings from a conference I attended last week for this Healthy Monday on Better after 50 and I'm guessing some of this information may be new to you....
This post originally appeared on the New York Times I tend to think of fall as the year’s busy season. But really it’s more accurate to think of it as the y...
This post was sponsored by Honey Nut Cheerios. All content and opinions are my own. I am incredibly active and I'm always looking for the right food fuel to...