Spring is Coming: Cabbage Soup Detox Time
Months of eating too much and lots of staying indoors has led to dark days of constant eating to create some internal warmth. Good news is that Spring is on the way!Unfortunately, either our clothes have shrunk or it's time to clean up and shed the winter fat layer. Prime time to detox! Fortunately, it's cabbage to the rescue with this delicious low-calorie, low-fat and nutrient dense cabbage soup, chock full of cancer-fighting properties and importantly, flavor.This recipe is based ...
We Tried 4 Vegan Matzo Ball Recipes and Here’s the Results
Rarely are the absence of eggs a hurdle in our world. Cakes and baked goods are fine without them as are pancakes and other treats. Even macaroons are well served with aquafaba. But oh those matzo balls. Try using a mix with your standard egg replacers and you'll quickly discover they will disintegrate in the boiling water or soup.Still we were determined. A few internet searches and we came up with three four recipes worth trying (the fourth was added recently and we're glad we did!). As an ...
Nostalgic Vegan Chestnut Mushroom Stuffing
With Thanksgiving almost here, it's time to think about those traditional foods that say holiday celebration. Even without a turkey, stuffing (aka dressing) is one of our staples, along with cranberry sauce, yams, greens, gravy and pies. Make Thanksgiving Great (Again).This one, from the family meal of the 1960s, is full of mushrooms, chestnuts and other delicious flavors which, when eaten with some homemade cranberry sauce, creates nostalgia on the plate. While my ancestors origina...
Is Nano-Tech a Ticking Time Bomb?
How Safe is Nano-Tech? Nanotechnology is here. Nano operates in the Quantum Realm, where physics gets strange, the world isn’t always as it seems and particles can exist in two places at once. What you might not know is that it’s everywhere in products from food to makeup to clothing. Is nanotechnology a ticking time bomb?Nano is not like anything found in nature. Nano-particles cannot be seen, even under an ordinary microscope. Different chemical, physical and even biologic ...
What’s Hot in Fancy Food Trends? Vegan, Gluten-Free, Herbal and More
It’s that time of year for fancy food (aka “specialty” food) at the massive 62nd Annual Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City. The weather was June’s finest and the show floor was hopping. Your humble correspondent was there, bringing you the new and fanciest trends.Delighted to report, VEGAN is making inroads, with mayos, yogurts, frozen desserts and lots of options in the chocolate and snack departments too. Even the international folks (55 countries exhibited) added some ...
Weeding out the Nutrition (in Your Yard)
By now, you might have heard that many plants we call weeds are actually great sources of nutrition. Dandelions are loaded with Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium and Iron. Chickweed has become the darling of farmer's markets, with its spinach-like flavor, and is also very high in nutrients. There are lots more everywhere we look.A wonderful and highly recommended book by Katrina Blair, The Wild Wisdom of Weeds, published in late 2014 describes in detail 13 "weeds" that grow around the ...
Spicy Radish Kimchi aka Kkakdugi
Wikipedia explains that Kkakdugi is a Korean kimchi side dish reportedly developed by a princess wife in the 18th Century. Of course.Having recently been gifted two giant daikon radishes (which are not the traditional Korean radish but close enough for us), we remembered the delicious radish kimchi sample we had from Mother-in-Laws and figured, “How hard could this be?”Crunchy, tangy and spicy, this is one of those recipes that is ridiculously easy and is a great condiment that ...
Conscious Cookery: Savoring Our Attention
In the last few decades, meditation has undergone a media makeover. Once the province of Eastern mystics, oddballs, hippies and woo-woo adherents, it’s now mainstream, touted as a treatment for high blood pressure, auto-immune diseases, cancer, PTSD, depression and more. Top universities and scientists are hooking up long time meditators to discover what’s going on as practitioners engage in the simplest of acts – simply paying attention to their own minds. No matter the specific ...
Driven by Flavor: Who’s Kidding Themselves?
More on Dan Barber's rantings in the Wall Street Journal seeking to justify his feeling that burgers "should be part of your diet." As Eleanor West writes in Food Republic, (Vegetarians, Carb Lovers and Coke Fans Beware), the crux of Barber's argument boils down to three main points. Our response to each point follows.1. Vegetables deplete soil more than grazing cows.Response: So what? This “argument” is a textbook example of logical fallacies in action. Just because ...
Getting to Know 100 Trillion of Our Closest Friends
As we've mentioned before, our microbial friends have a cozy relationship with us. As today's New York Times put it, if you're in good health, you can thank your hundred trillion bacteria (plus viruses and fungi).Thanks to the multi-pronged effort of the Human Microbiome Project which is seeking to characterize the microbial communities found at several different sites on the human body, including nasal passages, oral cavities, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and urogenital tract, we ...
