Get articles, daily on the email! Today’s healthy cooks want big flavors, which is why they’re stocking up on relishes, pickles, chutneys, vinegars and other highly flavored condiments. Depending on your tastes, relishes can be spooned over grilled chicken, drizzled on salads and served over rice. They heighten and brighten the menu with good-for-you flavors and textures. Best of all, they [...]
Who needs fattening hors d’oeuvres when artichoke bottoms are so user-friendly! They’re bite-size edible cups, and they come in a can all cleaned and ready to eat. The best thing is, you can pile ‘em high with any savory filling – but once you try lumps of flaked crab mixed with a little tarragon, some [...]
There’s nothing tricky about calcium. In plain English, you need it and you need it now! Try these sleight-of-hand maneuvers on unsuspecting family and friends (and yourself!) for a power surge of calcium — without the fat. Whenever you pick up a container of … Skim milk (8 oz = 300 mg) First of all, beef [...]
Q: Can you give suggestions for savory low-fat breakfasts? A: The best success story I have for cutting fat from a hearty breakfast is turkey bacon. I grew up with high-fat pork bacon playing a starring role in most of my family’s breakfasts. It is tough to kick the habit of chompin’ down five or six crispy [...]
You must try rose sugar, it has a very different and specific taste. So you can imagine the taste of this sugar, imagine how do you feel like when you smell a rose – in that moment you already have a deja-vu of the taste. If you want to make rose sugar, put 1 cup [...]
While the USDA Food Guide Pyramid offers good advice, it’s less helpful for the millions of Americans who don’t eat meat. But thanks to the Healthy Traditional Vegetarian Diet Pyramid, they can now look to a similar shape to balance their diets. “The vegetarian diet pyramid is based on numerous studies showing that the closer [...]
I have received a number of beautiful, and I’m sure flavorful, vinegars such as garlic, lemon, basil and onion. I am at a loss as to how to incorporate these into my cooking, other than vinegar and oil salad dressing. What do you suggest? Versatile vinegar has been gracing the kitchens of good cooks for [...]