On Healthy Living

I have done lots and lots of reading on healthy eating, alternative diets, etc. and I have to say that I have found overwhelming evidence that veganism, done right, is the healthiest way to go. There are alot of animal lovers who will decide to become vegan for moral reasons, but if they don’t take […]

Mmm! So tasty and quite healthy too!
Use flour tortillas for the base for this pesto-ham-and mozzarella stack.
Ingredients
1/4 cup purchased pesto
12 7- to 8-inch flour tortillas
1/2 pound finely chopped cooked ham (1-1/2 cups)
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (8 ounces)
1 8-ounce can pizza sauce […]

It seems that no matter who you are, if you throw a stone, it will hit someone whose been affected by breast cancer. In the last two months, two of my friends have been diagnosed. Joan, who now wears an adorable auburn wig, had a massive mastectomy. Her doctor’s thought the cancer had already […]

I love the Food Network with a love that is true and will never die. I first saw the channel devoted to all things food when I spent a summer living in Oklahoma City in 1999, and I’ve been devoted ever since. It’s food porn. I can watch people make things I would never ever […]

Where are you on the “blah� scale? If number one is bedridden and number 10 is on top of the world, do you operate at a constant five? Characterized as not bad, but not good either, five is the number that many of us spend years of our lives living.
The problem with five (or […]

If you are looking for a non-diet diet, in an attempt to get your body healthier, you should consider the Mediterranean diet. Those living in countries surrounding the Mediterranean are thought to have one of the best diets of any region. Why? Well, they eat more of certain foods and less of […]

Time: 25 minutes
1 medium head cauliflower
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons shallots, minced
2/3 cup Braeburn or other apple in ¼-inch dice
1 tablespoon amontillado sherry
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Grated nutmeg.
1. Pull off leaves from cauliflower, and trim tough stem end away. With sharp paring knife separate cauliflower into florets, leaving 1-inch stem at base […]

Time: 25 minutes
1 medium head broccoli
2 teaspoons sesame seeds
2 tablespoons olive oil
2½ tablespoons thinly sliced garlic cloves
¼ to ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
½ teaspoon finely grated orange peel.
1. Rinse broccoli. Cut off thick stem where it meets slender stalks, and reserve. With sharp paring knife separate stalks into florets, […]

Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
1 1/4 pounds green beans, trimmed and cut in half
Coarse salt
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan
1 tablespoon butter
1 onion, chopped
2 portobello mushroom caps, halved and thinly sliced
1/2 cup dry sherry
Simmer green beans in salted boiling water 5 minutes. Drain green beans […]

There’s a really interesting article in today’s Christian Science Monitor about the organic food movement in India. In the late 1960s the country embraced genetically modified plants that more doubled the amount of food the land could produce, but now many farmers are seeking to go back to the organic way of farming.
The big […]