Mary and a friend have a vegetable garden together; their garden resulted in a beautiful, tasty, nutritious Mediterranean addition to our dinner this evening. She dropped off the freshly pulled beets and carrots and told me one of the ways she cooks them. I tried to follow her verbal directions – fabulous! — a colorful […]

Ingredients: 1 cup carrot coins 1 ½ cup cubed baking potato 1 cup turnip, cut 1/2″ cubes 1 cup diced yellow onion 1 cup parsnip ¼ inch rounds 2 ½ cups sweet potato or yam cut 1/2″ cubes Zest of 1 orange 3 tablespoons chopped chives 1 teaspoon cinnamon Salt, to taste 2 tablespoons extra-virgin […]

This recipe notches up mashed potatoes for Sunday dinner or ‘an any day meal.’ The flavor is so good that you may want to serve this for a holiday meal.

I was raised eating food with family members whose ancestors were of northern European descent; I don’t know if eggplant was very popular in their ancestors’ kitchens. I do know that I don’t ever remember being offered eggplant; therefore, I thought maybe that I didn’t like it. A trip to Tuscany in Italy, forever changed […]

Learning the technique for roasting vegetables (which is one of the easiest things you can do) is a habit that you and your family will be glad that you got into.

Merry Graham won Second Place in the Dr. Grandma’s 2010 Recipe Contest with her Spiced Avocado-Orange Pecan Muffins. Merry’s recipe shows a creative way to add the moisture, monounsaturated fats and a huge load of nutrients to a snack, dessert or breakfast item. Ingredients 2 whole eggs or ½ cup egg substitute 1 cup mashed […]

Ideas about egg consumption seem for decades to have been swinging back and forth between viewing them as healthy low fat addition to the diet vs deploring them as an artery clogging food. It’s too bad, because the swinging has the health professionals confused also. Researchers are still trying to have a definitive answer to […]

This recipe can be served for breakfast, snack or dessert, in good conscience – no added sugar, extra virgin olive oil and 100% whole grains. This recipe is easy and turns out to be so delicious that you can serve it to particular guests. No one will ever guess – unless you tell them when […]

Mix your favorite nuts, or fruit or both, to make a delicious loaf of quick bread.

Simple and easy whole wheat nut muffins.