July 4th Sides: Mom’s Easy Healthy Baked Beans

Gail Ingram Photography

As I think about American cuisine for the upcoming 4th of July holiday I can’t help but think of baked beans. To me, baked beans are every bit as American as apple pie and just one of those staple dishes one imagines eating right alongside the rest of the classic . I love just about [...]

How to Cook Broccoli Rabe Perfectly…Italian Style

Joe Riti

How to cook broccoli rabe to perfection is a skill I only recently mastered. Broccoli rabe (also known as rapini) just was not a vegetable I grew up with. Actually, I had never even heard of it until after I graduated from college! These days I absolutely love to order broccoli rabe at restaurants but so many times [...]

Slow Cooker Seafood Stew Recipe: Cioppino with Southwest Twist

Slow Cooker Seafood Stew Recipe/ Gail Ingram Photography

For my husband’s 38th birthday last month I got the idea to make him a special seafood stew recipe. Since he is crazy for Cioppino I thought I’d see if I could figure out how to make this special dish in my slow cooker so I didn’t have to stand around in the kitchen cooking for hours [...]

Sweet Onion and Root Vegetable Gratin

Sweet Onion and Root Vegetable Gratin / Gail Ingram Photography

“You eat potatoes!?” a friend of mine asked shockingly when I told her what I was making for dinner the other night, which just so happened to be my vegetarian sweet onion and root vegetable gratin recipe (served along with a huge watercress salad and simple lemon cod.) But back to the potatoes. “Why would [...]

Easy Raw Gourmet: Herbed Green Goddess Dressing

Green Goddess Dressing with Fresh Herbs

If you read my recent article about raw food benefits you’ll see why I’ve been trying to eat more raw foods these days (and no, I’m not a vegan nor a raw foodie, but I do try to weave in elements of a plant based raw eating diet into my own diet.) Because I love [...]

Easy Vegetable Soup Recipe

Easy Vegetable Soup

Eat your veggies! How often do we hear this? I know it can be easier said than done but if you have a go-to easy vegetable soup recipe that you can keep for 3 or 4 days in the fridge I guarantee you’ll eat more veggies. The trick to eating lots of vegetables is to [...]

Healthy Diet Plan- Solution #2 to Eating Right (Watch Video)

A Healthy Diet Plan Includes Beans

Solution #2 in creating a healthy diet plan is to get rid of the 3 main empty calorie carbs and replace them with nutrient-dense “whole” carbs (If you missed “Solution #1 to Creating a Healthy Diet Plan” click HERE.) Watch the video below to learn more… Simple Recipe Featuring Nutrient-Dense “Whole” Carbs… This hearty dish [...]

The Healthiest Rice “Pudding” (Made with Black Rice) & More

The Healthiest Rice Pudding

Ever since recently learning black rice is the healthiest rice in the world I have been on a major black rice-eating kick. If you aren’t up on exactly what makes black rice so healthy you can learn more about the health benefits, where to buy it, and how to cook it HERE. Got Rice? Rice [...]

Clean Cuisine Family Meal…Including Healthy Mac and Cheese

Healthy Mac and Cheese / Debby Gans Photography

Healthy Mac and Cheese / Debby Gans Photography On Tuesday February 1st I’ll be doing a “Clean Cuisine Healthy Families Cooking Demo” at the Gardens Mall for my son’s school, The Benjamin School (which also happens to be the school where my husband and I met and where we both graduated…I was class of 94’, [...]

The Healthiest Rice in the World Makes the Easiest Side Dish

Easy Chicken Dinner with Black Rice & Roasted Veggies/ Gail Ingram Photography

The Healthiest Rice in the World Makes the Easiest Side Dish It’s hard to keep up, but in case you haven’t heard black rice is the new brown and considered to be the healthiest rice of all. I know, it’s like shoe fashion. Just when you finally splurge on a new shoe-of-the-moment you learn pointy [...]

How to Cook Kale? Plus Dairy Free Cream of Kale Recipe

Dairy Free Cream of Kale

  Have you been reading a lot about the tremendous health benefits of dark leafy greens but wondering how to cook kale? Or what in the world to do with collards, Swiss chard and beet greens? While we’ve all been told for years now to eat our greens, it’s surprising how few greens people really [...]

Gingerbread Pancakes & More – Healthy Breakfast Recipes for Christmas

Blake's Gingerbread Pancakes / Debby Gans Photography / Gail Ingram Food Styling

  I thought I’d share some easy “clean eating” healthy breakfast recipes for Christmas morning (just 3 more days!!) including one of my son’s absolute favorites, gingerbread pancakes. I’ve also included make-ahead almond butter and banana mini muffins and an ultra healthy gluten-free vegan raw food recipe. Three Easy Healthy Breakfast Recipes Blake’s Healthy Gingerbread [...]

Clean Eating One Dish Recipe: Moroccan Lamb Dinner

Moroccan Lamb Recipe

Moroccan Lamb Recipe / Gail Ingram Photography “Clean eating” takes on two meanings with my one dish recipe for an easy weeknight Moroccan lamb dinner. A one dish recipe is obviously a “clean” way to go as far as keeping the kitchen tidy but my Moroccan lamb recipe is also “clean” in a healthy eating [...]

Chewy Chocolate Cookies – Healthy Cookie Recipes Week Day 2

healthy cookie recipes

While I was preparing recipes for Healthy Cookie Recipes Week – I remembered a Chocolate Cookie Recipe I had done a few months ago and it was a huge hit… Gluten-Free Chewy Flourless Chocolate Cookies Comments included: “These were sooooooo goood!” – Vedika “The dates are a great idea!  Thanks so much for letting me [...]

Simple Classic Gingered Sweet Potato Soufflé

Sweet Potato Soufflé

November to March is sweet potato season and so now is the time I start whipping out my favorite sweet potato recipes, including my mom’s simple classic gingered sweet potato soufflé. I’ve been eating this dish for years and it’s just one of those satisfying comfort foods everybody in the family loves. Another family favorite sweet [...]

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