Thoughts On Food

Hey, hi!!! Happy New Year - we made it to February! I haven't written in a long time, but it's high time I start delivering some proper good news. I think we all can use it. So. You know how your Italian grandmother (or someone's you surely know) would absolutely lose her mind if she caught you eating leftover pasta straight from the fridge? Well, it turns out she might be nutritionally wrong (OMG, don't tell her I said that). Here's the deal: when you cook pasta, then let it

Let’s face it. We should all eat fruit everyday. I mean, come on, it’s easy and delicious. Here’s a little insider information. Berries...

Let me start by answering that. IT TOTALLY CAN! It totally is! Oatmeal has a bad rap. It’s synonymous with blandness. But oatmeal is...

"A ship in harbour is safe but that is not what ships are built for.” I really like this quote. I was talking to my brother about how...

There’s nothing like a sandwich. Need I say more? This is my favorite sandwich. The Crunchy Munchy Pickle Wrap Lavash Flatbread (I like...

Keto, Paleo, Vegetarian, Plant-based, Mediterranean, Lo-fat, Lo–carb…with all of these ideas floating around, all claiming to be the...

I started a new exercise program in January. I am writing to you from my bed. Later, I will move to the couch in my living room, then a...

Have you ever looked at a nicely arranged plate of food and automatically felt good? It helps if that plate of food is in front of you...

Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you …Are you fearful of flatulence? Worried over a case of the toots and not...

Don’t be suckered by food scientists who are paid to design chemicals in snack foods to be as addictive as possible, making you a paying...

I have some personal things I want to say. If you are going to hang in there with me on the blog, and read what I have to say, I want you...

I’m tired. I’m busy. I don’t know what to make tonight. If any of these statements hit home, you are not alone. My advice is to conjure...

Who out there is already sick to death of New Year’s resolution-talk? You’re a week into it and every single media outlet (social or...

Here we are on the cusp of a new year with all of the anticipation of things to come, and I’m writing to you from my bed, sick with the...

Ten Hours and two minutes. That’s how much daylight I have today. In the Northern Hemisphere, we are currently in the time period...

As first light begins to break, I trick my eyes into believing the desert sand that makes up my backyard is, in fact, snow. It glows...

Orange, yellow and red vegetables contain carotenoids, which are phytonutrients (not a nervous disorder causing one to anxiously see...

My favorite vegetable this week was sold to me by a ten-year-old farm-to-table lettuce representative. Working with his mom at the...

Google Search: food commentary. You enter the realm of the creative, fun, profound, hilarious and yes, ridiculous. People are waxing...

You are a unique and special snowflake. While that is beautiful and poetic, the truth is, we are all somewhat subject to social norms....