TIP OF THE DAY: Leftover Brown Rice Recipes

If you’ve been reading all the posts this month, you know why you need to eat more whole grain. It’s easy to do just by switching two of the most-served starches—white potatoes and white rice, both of which supply minimal nutrition—for nutritious, high-fiber brown rice. When you make brown rice, make double the amount you…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Chicken Meatballs

Where’s the beef? It’s been replaced by chicken, in these tasty meatballs from Coleman Natural, ready to heat and eat. Coleman Natural’s Gourmet Chicken Meatballs are antibiotic-free, hormone-free, preservative-free and vegetarian-fed. They’re gluten-free and soy-free. They’re better for you than conventional beef or pork meatballs. See all the different things you can do with chicken…
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HEALTHY RECIPE: Tofu Caprese Salad

Substitute tofu for mozzarella in yourcaprese salad. Photo courtesyMaiCuisine.com.   We love cheese. We eat it daily: mozzarella, feta and goat cheese are favorites. They’re also loaded with saturated fats. So one of our 2011 goals is to look for satisfying substitutes. When we had lunch at Mai Cuisine, a creative New York-area sushi bar-and-restaurant…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Grapefruit Sorbet Or Granita

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it gives you grapefruit, you can squeeze some terrific grapefruit juice. Or, you can go glam with grapefruit sorbet, one of our passions. You don’t even need a sorbet maker. These two recipes are for grapefruit granita—a “crunchy” sorbet. All you need to do is sweeten fresh-squeezed…
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RECIPE: Pressure Cook Beans & Rice—Fast!

Some people don’t eat more whole grains because they take too long to cook. But with a pressure cooker, brown rice is ready in 10 minutes, beans in 20 minutes (and really long cookers like short ribs in 40 minutes). Start your healthy New Year with a pressure cooker. We love our top-of-the-line Kuhn Rikon…
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