White House Garden-Inspired Fall Recipes
When I think about fall vegetables dishes, I think about warm, cozy and hearty dishes with various winter squashes, sweet potatoes, and colorful vegetable medleys. Recently, Everyday Health featured an article with 10 Fall recipes inspired by Michelle Obama’s White House Garden. The recipes feature a variety of fresh seasonal crops and seek to inspire [...]
Hello Papaya, a Delicious and Healthy Fruit
A while back, I received an email from a fresh produce marketer about a delicious papaya variety from Mexico – Sensation Papaya. She asked me if I was interested in tasting the fruit. She told me that this papaya is super sweet and even tastier than the Maradol papaya, in her opinion. I was very [...]
A Green Tea Watermelon Smoothie and a Mushroom Lasagna
I posted about Chef Rocco DiSpirito’s Now Eat This! Diet cookbook earlier this week. With permission, I’m going to share with you two recipes from cookbook. By the way, there’s still a chance to win an autographed copy of the cookbook. Enter the giveaway here if you’re interested! The first recipe is for a refreshing [...]
Tofu Crumble
Tofu has got to be one of my favorite ingredients ever. It comes in different textures – silken, soft, firm, extra firm. It is so versatile and super nutritious too. There’s so many ways to prepare it. You can marinate it and then grill it, pan fry it, stir fry it, bake it, etc. You [...]
Vegan cornbread muffins
I decided to make a batch of cornbread the other week. I had a bag of Indian Head old fashion stone ground yellow cornmeal in my pantry. The recipe for cornbread was conveniently posted on the back of the packaging. I looked through the ingredients: yellow corn meal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, shortening, milk, [...]
