Cooking with Herbs to Boost Flavor and Health

Cooking with Herbs

If you start cooking with herbs regularly you will not only boost flavor, you’ll also boost nutrition. Historically, herbs have been used for adding flavor to foods but research now proves herbs pack a powerful phytonutrient-punch that can slow aging, lower inflammation, assist with detoxification and improve health. Read more about the tremendous health-boosting benefits [...]

Thai Style Corn & Chopped Cabbage Salad on the Grill

Thai Grilled Corn

I will openly admit cabbage is not exactly my most favorite vegetable. But grilled cabbage is another thing altogether. Grilled cabbage doesn’t even really taste like cabbage. Even the picky palates of the ten and under crowd eat (and love!) chopped grilled cabbage. Especially when combined with lots of grilled corn. While I like to spruce up [...]

Roasted Vegetable Salad Recipe with Hemp Seeds

Roasted Vegetable Salad Recipe

This Roasted Vegetable Salad recipe with hemp seeds and my “stinking rose” Roasted Lemony Garlic Vinaigrette is the perfect way to enjoy the delicious flavors of a Mediterranean-inspired salad all year round…even in the chilly winter! And, if you add just a few pan-seared shrimp on top dinner is done. The Stinking Rose I actually [...]

Healthy 7 Layer Salad Recipe

Healthy 7 Layer Salad Recipe

Planning on inviting friends over to watch the big game? If so, you need touchdown-worthy “All-American” party food!  This Clean Cuisine style 7-Layer Salad recipe is sure to bowl the whole gang over – especially when they discover it’s vegan and super healthy too!  On second thought, you might actually want to keep the whole [...]

How to Cook Radishes and a Simple Radish Stir Fry

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For the longest time I thought radishes weren’t really for eating but rather best for suited for being cut into delicate, diamond-faceted garnishes. The idea of cooking radishes never crossed my mind, not to mention I had no idea how to cook radishes or where to start. But that was then and this is now. [...]

Summer Raspberry Salad with Homemade Raspberry Vinaigrette

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Since we are just entering peak raspberry season (mid-July through mid-September) I was inspired to make a Raspberry and Butter Leaf Salad drizzled with tart and tangy homemade raspberry vinaigrette. Raspberries are one of my favorite fruits not just for their taste but also becuase they are incredibly nutrient-dense and fiber rich. One cup of [...]

The Ivy Chopped Salad Inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow’s Cookbook

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I recently picked up a copy of Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook, My Father’s Daughter, after a friend on facebook mentioned it had a recipe for Kale Chips. Since I am totally addicted to the incredibly delicious but rather pricey Rhythm Kale Chips I buy at my local Whole Foods Market I thought it would be an [...]

July 4th Sides: Grilled Salad with Honey-Lime Cilantro Vinaigrette

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  My son just reminded me it is time to start buying fireworks. This helpful little reminder immediately got me to thinking about red and white checkered tablecloths, those decorative miniature American flags on toothpicks and of course picnic party food that’s not only Clean Cuisine, but also universally pleasing…even for guests who are not [...]

Clean Eating Summertime Barbeque Menu (Part 1)

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Where I live in sunny south Florida grilling season is year-round and so I pretty much have a “Clean Cuisine” barbeque menu for all seasons (I’m especially fond of my Christmastime grilled crostini with spicy shrimp and zesty cranberry relish…mmmm.) But, with summer right around the corner, I figured I’d share the menu and recipes [...]

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 [...]

Video: Making a Vegan Caesar Salad Dressing Recipe

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                            Our son, Blake, had his first ever Caesar Salad in the Bahamas at Café Martinique (a French restaurant headed by Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten) and since then he has become a Caesar salad connoisseur, which was what motivated me to create a Clean Cuisine [...]

“Clean Eating” Recipe for Watermelon Cucumber & Grape Salad

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Living in south Florida I can never have too many fresh fruit salad recipes. I usually go to the grocery or to Costco on Fridays, buy a ton of fruit and then make a big batch of fruit salad Friday night. This way, we have a grab-and-go snack ready to eat all weekend (it usually [...]

Eat Clean Recipe for Summer Scallop Salad with Mango, Red Pepper & Avocado

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We’re on vacation now (staying at the Atlantis in the Bahamas…so much fun!!) but just before we left I had made this salad at my moms house when we went over for dinner one night. I got the idea from the August issue of Bon Appetit magazine. The recipe was featured in the “Fast, Easy, Fresh” [...]

Eat Clean: How To Make Healthy Asian Seaweed Salad

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Every time I go to a sushi restaurant I order the seaweed salad, which is the perfect example of “clean eating” food! The seaweed salad is always very pricey though and then they give me these teeny tiny portions, so I never have enough to eat, which I find very frustrating. However, I went to my mom’s [...]

(Video) Eat Clean Recipe: Orange & Asparagus Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette

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I realize a lot of people think eating a salad of any sort should score them big points in the healthy clean eating department. But, I’ve been around the salad block and I know salads aren’t always healthy, or “clean”. If you pile on the wrong sort of things (think globs of cheese, heavy cream-based dressings, processed [...]

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