I can imagine that some of you look at artichokes and think, ‘I’d like to eat that, but I can’t figure out how the heck to even cook it, never mind what part of it I should be eating!’ Artichokes look tough to handle, but they’re actually really easy to prepare and versatile! If you’ve…
I’ve basically dedicated my career to debunking nutrition myths. And not just the standard ‘eggs are bad’ myths, either; also in the ‘myth’ category are the diets that I review, various things I hear from clients, and crap Gwyneth Paltrow says in the media. Here are some of the more persistent but completely nonsensical nutrition…
I recently had the chance to go on an almond orchard tour in California, courtesy of Blue Diamond Almond Breeze. Fifteen of us descended on California just as the trees were blossoming, so we could hear all about how Blue Diamond almonds are grown and harvested and used to make Almond Breeze. It was a…
I’ve always had a thing about dressings, and by ‘a thing’ I mean ‘an insecurity’. We all have our less-comfortable areas of cooking – for most people I’ve seen, it’s fish – and I’ve always been confounded about how to actually make a nice salad dressing. I know it seems simple, but just stay with…
Disclosure: I was compensated by Mann’s to develop this sweet potato pad Thai recipe. However, Mann’s products are always in our house anyhow, so this was a match made in heaven. I’m a huge vegetable lover, as you would imagine. That being said, I’m always on the lookout for new ways to cook vegetables. I…
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin is usually referred to as ‘The Pregnancy Hormone’, because that’s basically what it is: when you pee on a pregnancy test, HcG is what the test detects when you get a positive result. Pregnancy is associated with weight gain. So why in the world would people be consuming a pregnancy hormone via…