Wishlist: Essential Kitchen Gadgets
Your wishlist of essential kitchen gadgets for setting up any sized kitchen, on any budget. Many cooking frustrations in the kitchen can easily be solved with the right tools.
6 Tips for How to Nutritionally Survive the Holidays
Photo and cupcake decorating author: Make.Bake.Celebrate Top 6 Tips for How to Nutritionally Survive the Holidays This year can be different. The week of Thanksgiving: joyous anticipation fills the air as we all stand on the starting line of another holiday season! All social media posts and chatter with friends right now reflect this holiday [...]
Eating Perfectly Doesn’t Fix Everything
This realization felt crushing but it opened the space to embark on the true process of growing. Moving away from expectations and control I spent my young adulthood absorbing the unfolding story of how our daily choices can manipulate who we are. Superfoods could predict our good health and ensure we avoid disease. If I […]
Grilling Tips to Reduce Cancer-Causing HCA
Cancer-causing Heterocyclic Amines (HCA) form when meats and animal products (not fruits or vegetables) are heated at high temps that result in browning and charring (the “desired” crispiness of grilling). Animal proteins react with the naturally occurring sugar molecules in the meat to produce HCA compounds. Once ingested, your body’s enzymes activate HCA into compounds […]
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants (sounds like) Do This. Shouldn’t Need Help. Mostly Easy.
How Pollan’s famous first line creates tension within the most earnest (and health informed) individuals trying to lose weight (and those trying to support them). Still Quoted, Still an Influence This post is not to critic or review the 2008 best-selling book “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan. I respect the awareness this book […]
Product Review: What is Mirin and why is it a nutrition staple in my kitchen?
I was first introduced to mirin in my “Whole Foods Production” cooking class during graduate school and it has been a staple in my pantry ever since. I don’t do much cooking with drinking varieties of wine (reds and white) for two reasons: one I don’t love the flavor drinking wines add to dishes, and […]
