Recipes

This versatile vegetable dish is great with fish, chicken and lamb, or on it’s own! So simple to make and it looks very colorful on the table. Serves 2: 1 large zucchini washed and patted dry then cut into 1/4″…Read More

Orange is such a happy, vibrant spring color—it makes me smile! Orange food has the same effect. It looks great on the plate as well as delivering some tremendous health benefits. As I was shopping for this past weekend, I…Read More

I really love quiche. So easy and so versatile, you can use all kinds of different fillings depending on what you have in the fridge, or what takes your fancy. A really good friend of mine in England use to…Read More

More and more these days you hear about “gluten free” diets. I hear about it, read about it sometimes…but never really gave it much thought. One day, I was searching for a black bean soup recipe online, and in the…Read More

My daughter said to me the other day “mom, will you make me some banana cake?” Banana cake??  I wracked my brain trying to think of when I made banana cake. I couldn’t remember ever making it, though in my…Read More

This is such an easy dish to prepare, it freezes well and is simply delicious—one of my favorite winter dishes. I like to serve it with pork loin and roasted Brussels sprouts. Perfect served with a nice red wine. Yumm!…Read More

So as I was checking out Facebook this past week, I saw a post by my friend Annie mentioning that she’d made homemade granola bars and how good they were.  This immediately grabbed my attention, as Allison LOVES granola bars,…Read More

Is there a difference between sweet potatoes and yams? In the US, probably not. Yams are native to Asia and Africa and they are rare in the United States. What is readily available in the US as a yam is…Read More

I always forget how much I like pears until I eat them again. They are great in salads and absolutely delicious in a simple tart for dessert. This recipe looks good enough to be served at a dinner party or…Read More

I’m a veggieholic, have always loved vegetables even as a kid. My younger brother and I would fight over the last roasted potato! So to me, any vegetable you can roast is a good thing. This is not so much…Read More