Several years ago, I read The Fat Flush Plan by Ann Louise Gittleman. I am now revisiting her insights into cleansing the liver to boost its ability to function at its highest level. Nothing weird. Just maximizing nutrients that detoxify. For example, this Fat Flush Soup from Gittleman's blog… We finished it off so quickly that I nearly had…

It is a perfect tomato soup sorta day. What kind of day is that? Anytime your mind wanders to a period in your life when a happy memory is paired with a bowl of tomato soup. It may be a can of Campbell's soup or a made-from-scratch variety. For me, it is not the tomato…

After I shared a Facebook link to my Alton Brown shepherd's pie blog post yesterday, my niece Sheree expressed her love of this Food Network star's recipes, as well. She had most recently made his granola for Christmas gifts. That's all it took. I was off to the kitchen. That quick. It happens. The smell…

For no apparent reason, Dick requested shepherd's pie. I don't remember when I last made it, so I went straight to Alton Brown on the Food Network web site for a recipe. Alton has never let me down. He came through again. The marriage of chicken broth, rosemary, and thyme… amazing flavor! Since the dish…

When my youngest daughter, Jessica, arrived tonight to stay a few days over Christmas, I directed her to the fridge where there was a small pan of leftover lentil soup for her to heat up. I also placed a loaf of what I told her was "dried fruit nut bread" on a cutting board to accompany…

Twas the night before Christmas…  The children were nestled all snug in their beds,While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. Have you ever wondered what sugar plums are? A sugar plum is made of any combo of dried fruit such as plums (prunes), figs, apricots, dates, or cherries and shaped in a small round or oval shape.…

Yesterday's Quinoa Beet Pancakes resulted in extra beet puree. What's a girl to do? Make beet ice cream, of course! I combined steps from four different recipe's to create this luscious, creamy treat.   Far and above, the most important step that I have discovered in the ice cream making process is tempering the egg yolks to prevent scrambled eggs.…

Buried deep within Kim Boyce's Good to the Grain Cookbook, which I highly recommend to include in your collection as it encourages the use of alternative grains, I discovered a recipe for pancakes using quinoa flour and beets. As someone whose stomach once upon a time tumbled at the smell of cooked beets, my palette has…

I couldn't begin tell you where my blog hopping began. I don't have a clue. It wasn't a search for smoothies or a drinking straw pennant, but when I spied both on Lesley's Homemade Grits blog, it stopped me in my tracks. Inserted into her "only slightly adapted" version of a pumpkin smoothie that she had gleaned from Angela's Oh She Glows blog… that…

This morning I had made maple pumpkin custard  that was chilling in the fridge and had just begun preparing a pot of split pea soup for lunch when my cousin Keith and his wife, Cathy, called to ask Dick and I to meet them for lunch. Instead, I invited them to our table. This is a mega easy…