There’s nothing easier or more wonderful than a Summer Salad. And both peaches and nectarines are in season right now! You can have it for lunch or dinner. Here’s how: Pick a fruit you like. Pick salad ingredients you like and maybe a few things you don’t normally eat like jicama or a hot green … Read more
Straight out of the vegan mainstream google+ group comes this link to Kaiser’s recommendations to head yourself to a Plant Based Lifestyle. (See below for link after you’ve read this). But the Trip to a Plan Based Lifestyle sounds easier than it is! I would say it’s ‘well done’! Beautiful pictures, professionally captured. If nothing … Read more
Why…. tell me why I am constantly called to by Sugar! Mmmmmm…. doesn’t that look good…. And think of all the commercials on TV, radio, in print…. all telling you to buy sugar. Then there’s ‘hidden’ sugar…. things you never expect sugar to be in, but it just is. Do you want to know why that … Read more
According to The Specialty Food News, which does articles for people in the food industry, Frozen Food is on the decline! “Frozen meal sales dropped 3 percent to $8.92 billion from 2009 through 2013, according to data from Euromonitor International”. I personally think there are 3 factors: We have become a ‘foodie’ nation, and it’s now … Read more
Sorry it’s taken a couple of days, but there were other blogs in me that needed to be said. As promised, here are the Foods That Fight Cancer notes. Isn’t that cool? When you come to one of my Cooking Classes you never have to scramble to write notes cause here they are? YES CHEF! … Read more
Congratulations to Mark Bittman and the article about his soups written in the New York Times. Here…. take a look at the pix: So I recently needed to cook soup for a client without salt. Whoooot? Yes. But you know there are other things like Caramelized onions done in a balsamic glaze (to give you … Read more
Free Chef Marian Cooking Class for you? You bet! Saturday June 14th at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Unlike some of the other Chefs cooking and selling their wares, I am on the Main Stage Outdoors teaching you once again that Food is Your Best Medicine! I will be teaching/cooking 4 times this summer and each time … Read more
It’s a crazy headline but: A side of cancer with that hamburger is a reality. According to our local San Diego newspaper, The Union Tribune, a new report published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition advises you to avoid dairy products, avoid or at least limit alcohol consumption, stay away from red and processed … Read more
Sitting around that same table with the girls, (that I talked about yesterday) and we are all wondering if there is such a thing as one apple having more antioxidants than another…. I thought: “That’s worth researching”! lol So here we go with important answers to important questions! (Inquiring minds want to know)! What’s the … Read more
I will tell you, right here and now that one of my biggest battles is bread. Egg without bread? I woke up this morning thinking ‘that is absolutely impossible’. And you know why I want to eliminate bread from my daily routine right? NO CHEF! WHY? You mean after reading this blog for all these … Read more