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I share balanced and practical ways to eat well and maximize your health and wellbeing.
Marmalade Macaroons or Rochers à la Noix de Coco
Add macaroons to your dessert menu to master a classic French treat with Italian origins that’s surprisingly quick and easy. Macaroons (mac-uh-ruinz) based on coconut, look and sound nothing like the butter-cream filled almond cookies macarons (mac-kaw-rhone...
Pineapple Ginger Salsa Recipe
Tomato-based salsas offer familiar flavors and textures, but bust out of that comfort zone with a sweet, tangy pineapple ginger salsa for a zippy dip and fun side dish or garnish. Flavorful heat from chile peppers, garlic, scallion and ginger are balanced by...
Salsa! Dance it or Eat it—Both Burn Calories
Dance it or eat it, but either way salsa boosts your mood, makes you hot and burns extra calories. Chile peppers in salsa contain chemicals that trigger heat sensations and cause your body to expend more energy--a metabolic effect called diet-induced...
Lentil Mushroom Walnut Pate: Savory Bean-Meat Swaps
Swapping out a meat-based ingredient for a plant-based one is a balancing act of texture, taste qualities (like umami) and flavors from aromatic compounds. Particularly with liver—can you think of any plant that tastes or smells like it? Please let me know...
Quick Pickled Leeks with Lime
Leeks are versatile, but most often, are cooked until soft or used as an aromatic veggie in stocks. This recipe for pickled leeks lets them maintain a fresh texture and flavor. In less than 10 minutes, hands-on, you have a versatile, delicious garnish and...
Meaty Walnut Mushroom Ragout: Flex Your Meatless Options
Walnut Mushroom Ragout (Ragoût, for zee French appetite) This walnut mushroom ragout (pronounced like the Italian Ragù) is a veggie and meat-eater favorite that delivers a ground-meat texture and umami-meaty flavor from toasted walnuts. Walnuts are...
Corn and Cremini Chickpea Cauliflower “Pizza”
Cauliflower Chickpea-Flour "Pizza" This recipe delivers a satisfying and meaty umami-ness from corn, sun-dried tomatoes and mushrooms, but is it pizza? Gluten, scorned by carbophobic eaters and necessarily restricted by a minority of others,...
Chickpea Corn Cakes: Crave-worthy Carbs
If you enjoy crunchy, sweet summer corn and savory, nutty chickpea flavors and a fast, easy recipe, continue. However, I feel compelled to defend corn just in case with this comment: Carby chickpea corn cakes cause carb-avoiders cringe-worthy...
Michele Redmond
French-trained Chef, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist & Food Enjoyment Activist
