Milk “Is milk good or bad?” asks comedian Lewis Black. Advertising is more than happy to tell you that milk is not just good, you’re probably a bad parent if you’re not funneling the stuff down your child’s throat. Diets and online research are equally quick to demonize dairy, quoting facts about saturated fats and [...]

Share some of your favorite recipes, please! There are no requirements that it be healthy, gluten-free, vegan, etc … but if it IS, please indicate so in your comment, so interested folks with food restrictions can click intelligently. My favorites: Butternut Squash Mac N “Cheez” – Gluten-free if you use GF noodles, dairy-free. I adore [...]

June is here, bringing with it a colorful and dizzying array of vegetables. Gardens are filled to bursting with ripe and glorious healthy foods, and it’s the perfect time of year to visit your local farmer’s market and pick up some treats for your table. Farmer’s markets are a great way to pick up fresh, [...]

Beans Beans are awesome. They’re a complex carb paired with protein (the perfect pair!), PLUS they’re delicious, pick up flavors from whatever they’re cooked in, and come in a variety of different textures and colors. Also, they’re dirt cheap if you buy them dried and cook them yourself. There are two ways to cook dried [...]

I love red peppers. Green peppers and me, we’re on good terms. Yellow peppers don’t like me at all. But red peppers? Oh, honey, we’re in LOVE. This method should work for most peppers. Even those long, flat poblanos or the chubby little jalapenos (though if you’re doing a jalapeno, use gloves, be careful, and [...]

Onions! I love ‘em. ‘Specially those lovely sweet purply ones. I use a lot of onions. A LOT. I go through a bag of onions every two weeks or so. Sometimes more. Most of my recipes involve onions, and when I get a new recipe from somewhere else, I’m prone to doubling the onion content. [...]