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RECIPE: Strawberry-Orange Pasta Salad With Lemon Poppyseed Dressing

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Bowtie (farfalle) pasta, fruit and oranges: delicious! Photo courtesy Kraft.   What if pasta salad were more sweet than savory? That’s how it is in this recipe, a perfect way to make summer last a little longer (summer ends this Saturday, September 21st). Creamy lemon poppyseed dressing, mandarin oranges and fresh strawberries create this refreshing…
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Vegetable Colors: Eat The Rainbow For National Nutrition Month

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A rainbow of fruits and veggies (photo © Stephanie Suchat).   In elementary school, we learned how to remember the order of the colors of the rainbow: ROYGBIV—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Now, nutritionists advise us to “eat the rainbow.” The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics made this year’s theme “Eat Right…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Removing Orange Peel & Pith

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Have trouble peeling oranges? Try thin-skinned mandarins instead. Photo courtesyFloridaJuice.com.   We recently received a gift of delicious oranges from Harry & David. But boy, it wasn’t easy to remove the peel and the pith. Then we remembered our Mom’s tip: Roll the orange on a hard surface, pressing down firmly. We then scored the…
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