NEWS: You Can Get A Super-Healthy Lunch In Midtown

Yes, you can get a truly nutritious take-out lunch. Photo courtesy WFM.   If you don’t have time each day to prepare a super-healthy, grilled-veggie-intense brown-bag lunch like our friend Laura does, you may end up eating a lunch that contains lots of empty carbs and saturated fats: Burgers or burritos Pizza Sandwiches Chinese food…
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Two Yummy Lasagna Recipes: Spinach Lasagna & Pasta Al Forno

One of the fun things about cooking, we think, is that you can develop riffs on favorite dishes that always keep them fresh and interesting. Even if everyone loves your brownies, potato salad or whatever, try variations on it (like adding contrasting flavored baking chips or different nuts to the brownie batter, or minced jalapeño…
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PRODUCT: R.W. Knudsen Nature’s Peak Juices

One of our favorite juice producers, R.W. Knudsen, is offering another way to eat more veggies—or in this case, drink more veggies. The 100% juice blends are 50:50 fruit juice and vegetable juice from concentrate or purée. But the flavor profiles lean toward the sweet, so no veggie-hater need know. An eight-ounce glass contains 100…
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ST. PATRICK’S DAY: Irish Cereal Milk

Cereal milk with a shot of Irish whiskey. Photo courtesy Lexington Brass | NYC.   You might not drink this Irish Cereal Milk cocktail for breakfast; or then, you might. But it sure is a fun snack for after work, or even dessert on St. Patrick’s Day. The recipe comes from Lexington Brass restaurant in…
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Salad-Topped Main Course & Vegetables By Color

Here’s an easy way to get everyone to eat a few more veggies: Top main courses with a small salad. Fried, grilled, roasted and sautéed proteins are all candidates to be topped with an alluring crown of vegetables and herbs—not a dinner salad or dressed lettuce, but something that looks great. Dress the salad very…
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