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Baked, not fried: potato wedges are better-for-you than fries (photo © Potato Goodness). French fries hot from the deep fat fryer: so delicious, so clogged with oil, so coated with HFCS-laden ketchup, so not good for you. Long ago, we learned to love nonfat Greek yogurt, which we happily substitute for the copious amounts…
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We love this nut-tricious snack idea: An open-face peanut butter sandwich topped with trail mix. Use whole wheat toast: whole wheat for extra nutrition and toast for extra crunchiness. Cut into squares for easier snacking. Our beverage of choice: a glass of nonfat milk. The recipe concept comes from Lee Zalben, proprietor of the restaurant…
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If you like spicy Thai peanut sauce on noodles, expand the ways you use it: On grilled chicken, shrimp or other seafood, along with rice or noodles As the sauce for Thai chicken pizza (top with diced cooked chicken breast, sliced green onions, grated mozzarella, grated carrot and chopped fresh cilantro, sesame seeds, diced red…
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We recently spent a month undergoing a kitchen renovation. We ordered in a lot of Chinese food and ended up with a lot of uneaten fortune cookies. It’s a problem bigger than us: Over the past month, 8,100 people searched Google for “what to do with fortune cookies.” Rather than toss them out, we were…
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We recently received a gift shipment of jams from Blake Hill Preserves of Grafton, Vermont, artisanal producers of chutneys, jams and marmalades. The fruits are sourced from local farms in season, when they’re perfectly ripe. Every batch is prepared by hand in a Vermont cottage kitchen. The four jars we received were equally delicious. The…
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