Replacing the quintessential cheap fast food: The CheeseBurger $1.59 or $1.54? You could probably make a straight up better cheeseburger, but I’m looking for instant satisfaction, quick and portable. I’ll be packing or eating at home, so I wanted a similar convenience. I thought a quick charcuterie-type food would be my perfect quick ‘snack…
Blue Cheese Dressing
Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing
Fried Chicken Wings the “Healthy” Way?
I had a challenge on Twitter yesterday about whether I’d be eating (and I think buying a round of) chicken wings in the name of health. Ok, I’ll take that challenge. Can chicken wings be healthy? Or at least let’s say less unhealthy?
A Healthier Version of Zucchini Brownies
I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t zucchini in brownies healthy enough?!?! You’d think so, but just throwing in a single vegetable may not be quite enough. Heathy food is about how the foods interact and balance each other, what is present and how those foods act and react within your system. So mainstream or conventional nutritional advice is…
Lemongrass infused Risotto with summer vegetables, herbs and honey
Lemongrass infused Risotto with summer vegetables, herbs and honey There is something about fragrant herbs that send me into a tizzy of happiness. Lemongrass, basil and mint make this heaven, and I wanted to create a recipe that highlighted summer flavors like corn and tomato which pop out of this dish partnered perfectly with the honey, …
Light on Olive oil Basil Pesto
Lemon Basil Pesto A friend of mine wanted me to make a pesto with less olive oil, traditional Pesto is made with a good helping of olive oil (see an Italian Grandmother’s recipe, my typical type recipe), but here is a version she claims is the best she’s ever had. Enjoy!
Red Beet and Apple Salad with Crispy Truffled Greens
I finally used my beet green leaves instead of throwing them away. Do you know about beets and their super-energy giving potential? Or like me you think they are just fabulously delicious?
Why you should make Mayonnaise and Turn it into Ranch (recipe included)
The making of my Ranch dressing starts with mayonnaise. The reasonings behind why I think these simple sauces may have great importance in improving our health and in the healthfulness of meals is what “The Meal Matters Most” and Mayonnaise being a Health Food is all about. With the obesity epidemic and chronic disorders on…
Green Tea Jasmine infused Rice with Asian sauced ground turkey and vegetables
I thought this was a fantastic way to get my green tea without drinking it. I love the taste of the Jasmine in the tea, but for whatever reason I just don’t like to drink green tea on its own (it may be more of an oxidant to me and my system). But I bought…
Sesame vs Flax Seeds. Part 1
Roasted sesame seeds taste like candy to me. Utterly mind-blowingly delicious. Flax seeds? Taste like dirt. (Well, my opinion anyways, does anyone even “taste” flax seeds?!?) Flax seeds were planted and cultivated for thousands of years to make fiber, rugs and clothing, they became a popular food about 20 or 30 years ago when Omega-3…
The War on Cheese. Real Cheese Wins.
From a calorie model cheese is bad for you, it is high in saturated fats, salt and calories. From a stress model perspective cheese might not only be great for us, but according to a recent anthropological find that cheese has been being made for over 7,500 years. Cheese may even have been one the…
Adventures in Making Thank You Brownies
My neighbor came and shoveled my walkway and used his fancy blowing machine on my driveway. So I thought I might say “Thanks” with some brownies. Problem was I was pretty much still snowed in and I don’t really bake, let’s give it a go anyway….So collected anything I might have that resembles ingredients you…
The Meal Matters Recipes 