There are many reasons why you should grow your own micro-greens, and you don’t need a green house, just a nice sunny windowsill. As long as you have a warm sunny area in your kitchen or a spare room, you can grow micro-greens. What Exactly are Micro-Greens? Micro-greens are tiny edible green vegetables or sprouted [Read More]
Archive of ‘Healthy Alternatives’ category
The Greatest Hummus Recipe Ever!
This is the greatest hummus recipe ever! Really? Titles like this intrigue me but make me skeptical. You mean THE GREATEST in the history of the world? The earliest known hummus recipes dates back to the 13th century, so this is a pretty big statement saying it is the greatest hummus recipe ever. So went [Read More]
Savoy Blood Orange Salad with Manchego & Pepitas
Don’t let the words Manchego and Pepitas scare you away from this yummy Savoy Blood Orange Salad. They are simply cheese made from sheep’s milk and pumpkin seeds. Manchego cheese comes from the La Mancha region of Spain and is aged anywhere from 60 days to two years. It has a firm, buttery flavor, strong and [Read More]
The Top 5 Reasons you should add Matcha to your Diet
If you are eating healthy and clean, Matcha should be at the top of the list for new foods to add to your diet. Whether you drink it in a latte or add it to a muffin, matcha is so high in antioxidants, it’s a food that should not be missed! Consider it the mother [Read More]
Cutting Carbs with Cauliflower Fried Rice
Would you like to know a delicious way to cut those carbs? Try substituting cauliflower for rice in this cauliflower fried rice recipe. I know, I know, don’t mess with the fried rice, but oh I did and it is good. I mean really good! The kind of good that makes it hard to believe it’s cauliflower. Call me [Read More]
Lite Lemon Chicken Piccata
I took a recipe I love, Lemon Chicken Piccata but at a whopping 1025 calories per serving from the Pioneer Woman’s Piccata recipe I knew I had to trim it down. And trim I did, to a mere 255 calories per serving! Now you might be asking if it still tastes good. When that many [Read More]
Eating Green in 2016
New Year’s Resolutions: New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and with it comes all those resolutions that we state with such exuberance! I will lose those fifteen pounds that I said I would lose for last year’s resolution. I will get my sluggish body to the gym. I will give up my vice, you [Read More]
Modern Table Meals
Quick & Tasty I tried Modern Table meals for the first time a little over a month ago at Costco. Modern Table Meals was started by a group of busy moms who wanted to bring healthy and easy meals that taste yummy to everyday life, and that is exactly what they did. Their Modern Table [Read More]
Gluten & Dairy-free Orange Glazed Chicken with Baby Bok Choy
It’s Autumn Orange glazed chicken with baby Bok Choy is a light comfort meal that brings in the flavors of fall to your dinner table. It’s Autumn. The sun sets earlier now and the nights are growing shorter as fall begins its slow melt into winter. Out my kitchen window the starlings pick the last of the fermented berries off the European mountain [Read More]
Manchego & Roasted Garlic Cauliflower Bites
I have never been a huge cauliflower fan, maybe because my mother always boiled it in water and served a mushy head of white brains, as I always saw it. It wasn’t until my adulthood that I actually started enjoying cauliflower, especially baked. My husband has always thought of cauliflower as a vegetable you need to [Read More]