If you need some new creative sides for the gathering season and the New Year, try these! Fall gathering season is a chance to create tasty and healthy meals for your favorite people - at home. It's not about cooking for days and days and then feeling exhausted. It's about cooking for fun and keeping it simple with delicious flavors. Getting friends and family to help out is always a good idea. And, don't overlook the younger generation because they are full of energy and desire to pitch in, too. Coming up with easy and healthy recipes is a joy of life for a nutrition … [Read more...] about The Gathering Season with Easy, Healthier, Homemade Recipes – Greek Potato Salad and Fresh Pear with Broccoli Slaw
3 Recipes for Spring with Grocery Shopping Lists to Match
Are you hungry for Spring and could you use help coming up with some new recipes? Take a moment to think about all the beauty of spring. When a new season of nature emerges from winter, the landscape becomes alive with color, birdsong, and bees. Many possibilities also emerge for making recipes and meals from early spring foods such as spinach, kale, Swiss chard, garlic shoots, spring onions, radishes, asparagus, green peas and a little later, strawberries. Here are 3 recipes to add spring freshness to your meal plans with the special foods of spring. And, to make life easier, here … [Read more...] about 3 Recipes for Spring with Grocery Shopping Lists to Match
Read Your Recipe Carefully to Avoid 5 Common Recipe Mistakes
Even experienced cooks make mistakes. For me, there have been many like over-spicing a chili to the point it was not edible, leaving the sugar out of a quick bread, leaving the egg out of etc etc. You get my drift. If you want to 'nail' your recipe every time, try this simple strategy: Read your recipe carefully before you start making it. It will help you avoid common mistakes. Read Your Recipe Carefully It's super smart to take 10-15 minutes to read over your recipe every time you cook something for the first time. Even if you're cooking a recipe you've made before, take a few minutes … [Read more...] about Read Your Recipe Carefully to Avoid 5 Common Recipe Mistakes
Cooking in a New Kitchen
It takes determination and desire to break-in a new kitchen and the results are definitely worth it. My Cooking Mistakes While living in northwest Spain this fall, I'm finding out that cooking in a new kitchen is not so easy. I've already made a ton of mistakes like these: Letting the rice boil over and make a mess Burning part of the eggplant I was trying to sauté Measuring the salt incorrectly, without a proper measuring spoon Running out of eggs when I wanted to make a Spanish Tortilla Omelet Missing the spices I needed to make a chickpea burger … [Read more...] about Cooking in a New Kitchen
Spanish Tapas & 3 Easy Tapas Snack Ideas
Spanish Tapas are a food experience to love. While living in Salamanca, Spain - in the northwest part of the country, near Portugal - I am discovering a new world of food that I never knew before. It's called 'Tapas' which, in Spanish, is a small portion of food that's served as an accompaniment to a drink. The drink can be anything, like a glass of wine, beer, water, coffee, or tea. Tapas are traditional snacks full of color, flavor, and good nutrition. If you enjoy learning about food history then here's a story that describes the origin of the tapas tradition, from southern Spain in … [Read more...] about Spanish Tapas & 3 Easy Tapas Snack Ideas
Seedless Tangerines are ‘Mandarinas’ in Spain
The vitamin C in tangerine-mandarinas will help you stay well and their amazingly sweet flavor will keep them on your grocery list, week-after-week. If you're searching for the rockstars of the citrus world then tangerine-mandarinas are it. For a decade or longer, the demand for a kid-sized, seedless, tangy and sweet fruit has grown and grown. While living in Salamanca, Spain this fall, I've already started to buy seedless tangerine-mandarinas from grocery stores, the Central Market, and small shops that specialize in selling fresh fruits and vegetables. They are in nearly every shopper's bag … [Read more...] about Seedless Tangerines are ‘Mandarinas’ in Spain