Why You Should Eat Seasonally
Look at that gorgeous citrus I picked up at Mike’s Organic Delivery today! My kids have become grapefruit lovers, which happens to be one of my favorites too. I TRY to eat seasonally for a few reasons: 1. It’s the most flavorful. Seasonally fresh produce is picked when it’s ripe and fully developed. 2. I’s cheaper because there’s an abundance. 3. It’s better for the environment because it needs less human assistance. 4. It forces you to eat a wider variety of foods throughout
Instant Pot Black Beans
Man you gotta love the instant pot! Cooking dried beans takes FOREVER but these in the instant pot took 30 minutes - top that! Ok, there was an hour of soaking time beforehand but how hard is it to dump some beans in a bowl of water while you go about your daily business? Now I don’t eat a lot of legumes but sometimes it’s just nice to switch up the protein sources from animal to vegetable. Beans are cost-efficient and incredibly rich in nutrients like fiber, protein, iron, c
Banana Chocolate Chip Bread
Like there are 1,001 ways to make a chocolate chip cookie, so it goes with banana bread. I already have a damn good (and clean) banana bread muffin recipe on my blog somewhere but I think THIS recipe takes the cake when it comes to the field of banana bread. It is everything you would want banana bread to be and, in fact, I test drove this on a few kids during an after school playdate and was told, “this is really good banana bread” by someone other than my own kids -- so it'
Bruschetta Meatballs
This is the second recipe I ever posted over on my old blog www.thefoodfitlife.com a few years back and I still love it. It’s fast, it’s easy and it only requires two ingredients -- can you GET any better than that?! Quite often my weeknights are spent running around to this activity or that and having to come home and throw together a labor intensive dinner can seem like altogether waaay too much work and require energy I simply don't have. Instead of whipping out a box of m
Healthy Tips for your Superbowl Party
SUPERBOWL!! Just the word conjures up sweet dreams of pizzas, hoagies, wings, chips, dip…I could go on and on! I remember in college getting giant subs, beers and bags of chips from Tony’s in downtown Clinton, New York and camping out in a dorm room to watch Superbowl commercials, er, sorry, I mean the big game! I would always leave stuffed to the gills, and I’d like to say feeling pretty miserable, but I guess that’s pretty much how I ate all of college so it seemed pretty s
Shrimp with Tomatoes and Feta
Have you ever been told that you should have a couple of dishes in your arsenal that you can pull-out at anytime and make without a recipe? Well this is most definitely one of mine. Shrimp with tomatoes and feta. I keep a bag of frozen shrimp in my freezer so if ever a night rolls around where I have nothing planned for dinner, I can whip this up in about 20 minutes without having to visit the grocery store. I can’t begin to count how many times I have made this recipe but it
