TIP OF THE DAY: Rainbow Vegetables

Baby carrots move beyond the familiar orange to purple, red and yellow. Photo courtesy Sprinkle Side Up. See her recipe for glazed rainbow carrots.   In picking up supplies for our “diet Oscars menu,” we came across rainbow baby carrots—our first sighting—and rainbow cherry tomatoes, which have been available in our market for a few…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 5 Ways To Eat “Mediterranean Diet” Healthy

While our “day job” is to try lots of specialty foods and cook and bake alluring recipes, we aim to make the right choices when we’re not working. If we’ve been heavy on the healthful eating tips lately, it’s because we’re struggling even harder after the onslaught of Valentine chocolate. So today we’re passing along…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Freeze-Dried Herbs In Everything

The trick to adding more flavor to everything you eat, with negligible calories—and the ability to cut back on salt—are spices and herbs. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HERBS & SPICES Spices are the dried seeds, buds, fruit or flower parts, bark or roots of plants. They are usually of tropical origin. Herbs are the leaves and…
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RECIPE: Caesar Salad With A Twist

This idea from Posana Café in Asheville, North Carolina can turn what is typically a side salad into a main course salad. Hard boiled eggs and crispy prosciutto or bacon are added for protein. The romaine, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and dressing remain, except that the lettuce is not torn, the raw egg in the dressing becomes…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fun Ways To Use Healthy Foods

Mmmm…a fun way to eat more veggies. Photo courtesy Nature Box.   Trying to turn over a new leaf, eating more kale and other good-for-you veggies, without giving up flavor and fun? One of the major paths to better eating is to eat less meat and more vegetables. Yet many of us are veg-averse. Even…
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