
It’s time for summer cookouts and a favorite take-along dish, potato salad, is on the menu. I remember my mother’s traditional potato salad, a creamy, mayonnaise dish, filled with chopped green onions. She made enough to feed a small militia,...
My first memory of eating is being spoon fed spinach, but it’s not a fond memory for me or my mother — she wore most of it. Mom never gave up during my early years. She made sure to stress that spinach was “good for you” by showing...
Your dinner table is full of world travelers. Grapes from Chile. Salmon from China. Lettuce from Mexico. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There is plenty of locally grown produce, eggs and meats available that are healthier and fresher, and...
Figs are a wonderful sweet source of fiber and minerals; cooking with them is easy. They are high in natural sugars and filled with the minerals potassium, iron, calcium, copper, magnesium and manganese. In her article “Health Benefits of Eating...
The golden deliciousness that is the sweet potato can go beyond marshmallow-topped holiday dishes. Vitamin-rich sweet potatoes can make appearances at the breakfast table or the dessert buffet. Sweet potatoes can be healthier substitutes for regular...
The lowly bean is actually quite an amazing little parcel — it’s packed with fiber, stocked with nutrition and full of protein. Beans are low in fat, but high in folate, iron, potassium, protein and magnesium, according to the Mayo Clinic. Beans,...
Surrounding the Mediterranean Sea are more than 15 diverse countries that offer foods as unusual as octopus and sea urchin, but share common, healthy ingredients. Mediterranean cooking is healthy due to the combination of fresh fruits, vegetables,...
Picture this: It’s a cold, blustery winter evening, the most recent in a line of cold, blustery winter evenings. You get home from work, cheeks raw from the cold, the tips of fingers gone numb inside inadequate gloves. All you want is to defrost...
Debbie Mutz’s favorite set of knives has been in her family for about 20 years. The set belonged to her mother. “They’re called American Chef Cutlery. I’ve bought several different brands, and they all seem to need sharpening, but these knives, I...
Bread may be the staff of life, but it tastes better topped with a slice or two of cheese. From Asiago to Vermont cheddar, there are hundreds of kinds of cheese from every country and culture, and cheese predates written history. That’s pretty lofty...