A twist of traditional Christmas food by substituting ingredients or adding custom dishes can be a healthy addition to our traditional Christmas dinner. It’s that time of year again when we look forward to getting together with family and friends while enjoying those traditional Christmas comfort food favourites. The fact is these days many people…
How to make your own authentic, fast, easy and healthy Mexican salsa at home. Two basic and mild salsa recipes using the same ingredients. The word salsa can mean two things, the Latin dance called salsa or a sauce served with foods. Savory Mexican food without salsa would be like eating an ice cream sundae…
Graze.com is an innovative, exciting way to cut out junk food snacks and open your mind to trying new, healthy and delicious snacks. Many of us snack during the day and more often than not we will reach for a biscuit, muffin or chocolate bar to quench the hunger. However, UK based company Graze has…
If you decorate your home in red and green at Christmas time, why not enjoy the same festive (and healthful) colors on your plate? If you grow your own basil throughout the summer, you know how satisfying it is to harvest the leftover plants in autumn and make pesto to freeze over winter. There’s something…
Some of the tastiest pasta sauces are also the simplest to make. Fresh tomato sauce, pesto, or creamy Alfredo all make delicious, easy pasta dinners. The most delicious sauces for pasta are the ones with the fewest ingredients. They’re simple and elegant, some slow and some quick—all easy to prepare. The three sauces featured here are…
Why open a can of soup from a factory when you can make a pot of delicious, fresh, and hearty goodness in the warmth of your own kitchen? And it’s easy! Good old-fashioned vegetable soup doesn’t come in a can. You can make a delightfully delicious and healthful soup in less time than you think,…
Made of processed white fish, surimi is flavored and colored to mimic seafood such as crab, lobster and shrimp. Surimi is a ready-to-eat product that is flavored and colored to taste like whatever the intended final product is: crab, lobster, shrimp and other shellfish. If you have tasted imitation crabmeat, then you have tasted surimi….
Your health is very important, so eating healthy food is a natural necessity. However, healthy food doesn’t have to be difficult or time consuming to make. Every now and then you may feel like eating something healthy, but you don’t want to spend a whole lot of time making something. Fixing a simple salad is…
Learn about the versatility of the potato. Understand how and why its many attributes have made it a staple on so many dinner tables throughout the world. Throughout the course of history, potatoes have been cooked, served, and eaten in many different forms ranging from mashed to roasted. The potato, a humble tuber vegetable, holds…
Kids love pancakes! Kids love apple sauce! Combine them together and make healthy, apple sauce pancakes with your kids. The children jump out of bed, run to the kitchen and immediately ask for breakfast. Pancakes are the kids’ favorite breakfast but just plain, Bisquick or Krusteaz pancakes don’t offer healthy ingredients like those that can…