It is overcast and chilly today… a soup kinda day. This Creamy Carrot Soup, from Dr. Fuhrman's blog eatrightamerica.com, is a winner fer sure… fer sure. To give the soup body and creaminess, some of the veggies are removed from the soup after simmering, whirred in the blender, then added back into the soup. Be sure to taste the…

Dick was rummaging through the freezer when I heard some crinkling of foil packaging going on. He was into the chocolate chips again. I told him I could do better than that, so I mixed up this simple nutritious fudge in no time flat. Nicole shared the recipe over at her fitness freak blog. Thanks,…

A while back I gave each of my daughters a copy of one of my favorite cookbooks titled Smart Muffins by Jane Kinderlehrer. I have made many of the recipes in the book, but Heather recommended one that I hadn't tried yet. Oh, are they good! They are so very light with a hint of…

In yesterday's post, I shared a Cream of Something Soup recipe. If you made it… and I hope you liked it as much as I did and now you are wondering what else you might do with the  jar of nutritional yeast, why not make a quick tasty snack with it? I stuffed a stalk…

Hotdishes/casseroles commonly have cream soups in the recipe (e.g., cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, cream of celery). You look in your pantry and there is none to be found, or your vegetarian/vegan diet doesn't fit the store-bought cream of something can of soup, or you like to be in charge of what goes into…

My daughter Jessica gave me this popsicle mold a few years back. She got it from Williams-Sonoma, however I checked their site and it is not available there. The box states "developed exclusively for Williams-Sonoma © 2001." I did find one on Amazon that looks like mine except it makes 10 popsicles instead of 8. There…

To make yogurt, milk is heated then cooled. I had been using a candy thermometer to monitor the temperature of the milk. When I bought my daughter Heather a yogurt maker as an early birthday gift recently, she told me that she uses a digital thermometer that beeps when it reaches a preset temperature. I immediately ran down…

  If soaking grains overnight to release nutrients bound by phytates/phytic acid prior to cooking or baking (as explained in the previous two posts) seems impossible to fit into your present schedule (although it really doesn't require any more time… just a bit of preplanning) or if a recipe doesn't have an adequate amount of liquid needed to obtain the flour…

The morning sun streaming in the window meant it was time to finish the batch of pear pecan muffins that I started yesterday when I mixed all of the grains in the recipe (1 1/2 cups sifted whole wheat pastry flour, 1/4 cup rolled oats, and 2 tbsp wheat germ) with an acid medium (1 cup buttermilk)…

As I have been progressing through my Holistic Nutrition classes, the terms phytates and phytic acid keep popping up. What I have learned is that phytates, or phytic acid, is found mainly in the outer covering (bran) of whole grains. The problem is that phytic acid can bind minerals such as calcium, iron, copper, magnesium, and especially zinc and they can be carried out through the intestinal…