YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Hugs (Lentils) and Kisses (Carrots)
Bring a platterful of this amazingly delicious recipe to the table, full to the brim with tiny round hugs (lentils), and cross-hatched X’s (carrots), and share the love all around. Everyone will be so...
View ArticleThree Ways to Nourish Your Heart & Soul
When people talk about nourishing, the next word I usually think of is “food.” But you can nourish yourself in a whole bunch of different ways, and I’m going to share a few with you today. First, we...
View ArticleYOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Great Northern Beans and Rice
This is the kind of recipe that you can often rustle up from items that you already have in the kitchen. In the neighborhood in which I grew up, my mom was famous for saying that if you have a can of...
View ArticleYOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Pickled Veggies
My family takes our pickles seriously. Sour pickles, half-sours, pickled green tomatoes, you name it. We debate whether Grandma Rosie used too much dill or not enough, why the garlic cloves sometimes...
View ArticleYOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Tsimmes
Preparing for the holidays with my mom was a major highlight of my childhood. Like many other special dishes that we ate on dedicated holidays throughout the calendar, we made tsimmes twice a year, in...
View ArticleYOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Orange Soup (Marak Katom)
In the past week I received a lot of requests for Orange Soup (marak katom), which I mentioned as having been my inspiration for last week’s Purple Soup (marak segol) recipe. So I checked out a whole...
View ArticleYOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Luscious Lentil Salad To Go
Here’s a wonderful recipe for you to try! Especially after weekends of the kinds of food extravaganzas that the coming weeks are sure to bring, this salad will be a great choice for helping your...
View ArticleYOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Carrot-Mint Salad
I ate my first carrot-mint salad many years ago at the table of a Moroccan-Israeli neighbor who brought her culinary heritage with her when she came to Cleveland. She taught me that there is something...
View ArticleYOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Liquid Sunshine Soup in November
Please enjoy this recipe, an earlier version of which I posted in November 2011: This past week I found myself the proud possessor of a lovely hubbard squash. Add to that the butternut squash that came...
View ArticleYOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Two Kale Salads
This past Monday we had bookclub at my house, and it was really nice. We read Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, and ate a whole bunch of delicious things, including a fantastic sweet potato soup (from Amy...
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