A Healthy(ish) Brunch
Brunch just might be my favorite meal. I will look for any excuse to throw a brunch get together at my house. But it’s easy for baked brunch goods to get really sweet and sugary. So this last weekend I opted for some lighter fare.
Cornbread with raspberry-basil sauce
The raspberry-basil sauce was the inspiration for the dish. I was eating raspberries, and looking at basil, then thought, “These would taste really good together. What can I put this on top of?” And even though I’ve never made any, cornbread popped into my mind. So I made my first batch ever, from scratch, of cast iron skillet cornbread. Read More
Quick Bite: All Whole Grains Are Not Created Equal
“Whole Grains” is one of the very popular buzzwords in food and health today. It’s no surprise then that the Food Industry is jumping on the bandwagon and advertising whole grains in many products. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has an excellent guide on whole grains and recently got press coverage exposing the problems with labeling of whole grains.
Here’s a picture from a friend of mine, one of the rare honest labels out there: Read More
Falling Off the Wagon
It’s not how many times you fall off the wagon, but how many times you get back on.
Wagons & Food
Diets. Forbidden foods. That extra cookie. Daily exercise. Weekly exercise. EXERCISE. Chocolate. Ice cream. Read More
Cheesy Baked Quinoa
Quinoa comes in a few varieties, the light brown is the most common. Black and red can often be found in health food and specialty stores.
I love quinoa.
There, I’ve said it. Back in St. Louis my friends called me the Quinoa Queen because I introduced EVERYBODY to my favorite little seed. Yes, quinoa is a seed. It looks like a grain and acts like a grain, but is actually the seed of a grass like plant from South America. Read More
More Humorous Nutrition Headlines
More headlines about nutrition that make me think, “Seriously?”
- Standard American Diet needs boost to offset poor nutritional habits – They don’t call it SAD for nothing. I’d much rather see an article talking about CHANGING the SAD diet, as opposed to supplementing to offset bad choices. More and more bandaids will not eliminate the problem.
- Want to lose weight? Trade sugary drinks for water – I’m amused that some organization FUNDED this research! One nice thing that came out of the research was showing an increased benefit for water even over diet drinks. Yes, drinking something with no calories, and no weird additives, is better for you than something with lots of sugar and/or chemicals added.
For the first part in this series, go here.
