Now that Fall decorations are coming to a close, you can toss those pumpkins, but save the seeds…or buy a bag of raw seeds from the grocery store! I’m fascinated with seasonal benefits of food, and how Fall gourds are nutritionally packed to ward off colds and seasonal illness. Pumpkin seeds are said to be […]
No Oil Salad Dressing—Three Ingredients
3-2-1 No Oil Salad Dressing is so easy and tasty, you will never buy a bottle of dressing again. It seems like I share this recipe with someone at least once a week. I learned it from Jane Esselstyn. She created it for the Forks Over Knives Cookbook. The video below demonstrates how easy it is…and by […]
How to Select Sweet Watermelons
Usually when we enter the bleak grey month of January, I begin counting the months until watermelon season. As a kid I could eat a whole watermelon in one day…pure watermelon joy! At family gatherings nothing was better than ice cold watermelon and seed spitting competitions with my cousins, of course Greg almost always won. […]
Steak is Better
Almost all ground beef is contaminated enough to make you sick. By Rob Quinn Published August 25, 2015 on Newser. I don’t know Rob Quinn, the writer of this article for Newser, but I think this information is too important not to pass along. If you are a meat eater, it is far better to […]