low-stress ideas for living a deeper shade of green
Ok. I must confess that I don’t cook ALL my food from scratch. Sometimes I embellish a basic prepared dish to liven it up and make it a little healthier. I’m sure there are a lot of great, fairly easy pad Thai noodle recipes to create the sauce from scratch, but I don’t often have [...]
It is probably time for me to go get a wee bit of an upgrade on my eye glasses prescription . . . I had this fantastic idea the other night to whip up a quick batch of quinoa pilaf and have it with a hearty spinach salad to make a nice healthy winter meal.
Having read Anna Hackman’s guest post here and too many articles lately on the high levels or arsenic showing up in rice and rice products, this gluten-free green diva is now hoping they don’t find anything wrong with quinoa! This time of year, I start craving hearty rice pilaf. My family counts on me to [...]
What is up with the USDA? Call me crazy, but doesn’t USDA stand for United States Department of Agriculture? Does the USDA only recommend a daily meat diet? What silliness . . . first some thoughtful editor/writer posted a recommendation to consider joining in the Meatless Monday campaign and reduce meat consumption ONE DAY a week [...]
Aside from being dubbed the Green Diva, I’ve also been called the salad queen (these may actually be different variations on the same title!). Since my earliest memories of food, salads have been and remain a favorite staple in my world. I was somewhat of a natural vegetarian, gagging on most meat and thus being [...]
We had a hankerin for something different for our sunday dinner this weekend. Then I had a timely conversation with a dear friend who fell in love and moved to Tennessee and now owns and runs a restaurant called Papa Boudreaux’s Cajun Cafe & Catering Company. I did some research and decided to try and create [...]
Brown rice has always been a staple in our household. From fall to spring, we cook at least one pot of brown rice per week. My kids have come to regard it is the basis of a quick and delicious meal and have since they started eating solid food and I mashed it up for them, [...]
