It can be hard to maintain a healthy diet during the holidays, but you can do it without having to sacrifice your favorite holiday foods by getting your portions correct. Fitbie’s Perfect Holiday Portions infographic below details just the right size for your portions of mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, turkey, champagne, egg nog, and pumpkin […]
Gluten Free Bread
Why make Gluten Free Bread? What is gluten? Gluten is a protein complex found in wheat and some other cereal grain flours (of the grass family) such as rye and barley. Hybrids of these grains; faro, grano, kamut, spelt and triticale also contain gluten. Flours made from these grains cannot be used to make gluten-free […]
The Versatile Pumpkin
My favorite autumn food ingredient is by far is the pumpkin. As a matter of fact, there is just something about all types of winter squash (acorn, butternut, banana, delicate, hubbard, Kabocha, etc.) that I find comforting and delicious. After all, these yellow and orange hued members of the cucurbitaceae family (includes cucumbers, melons & […]
Fruit Juices and Sugar
Nutrition information can be overwhelming and difficult to understand. Add to that the clever marketing involved in many processed foods and making healthy food choices can be very difficult, even with the nutrition labels on most foods. A good example: fruit juice. Science tells us that one teaspoon of sugar contains sixteen calories and that […]
Grilled Flatbread Pizza
I realize that it’s technically autumn now, but I’m not willing to let go of summer just yet. Luckily my favorite summer cooking tool, the grill, can be used well into the autumn. Pizza never goes out of season and one of the best ways to enjoy pizza is to make it on the grill. […]