Quicker Cheaper Chicken Upgrade
Put a little garlic aioli into a chicken breast and, suddenly, the kind-of-dry white meat is juicy and intensely flavorful. Aromatic. Takes just two minutes and five cents worth of my 5-minute mayo.
80 Ways: Yogurt. Sweet as you want it.
80 recipes from traditional healthy cuisines around the world. From places and times that never heard of diabetes, overweight/obesity and cardiovascular disease epidemics. Today: A Better Way To Start Your Day. Plain yogurt as sweet as you want it.
80 Ways: Beet the Heat
80 recipes from traditional healthy cuisines around the world. From places and times that never heard of diabetes, overweight/obesity and cardiovascular disease epidemics. Today: chilled borscht. Hot color. Cool mouthful. A GL of just 5. Deep earthy, sweet flavor.
Olive Oil Advisory
If you use a lot of it, it's even Better than you thought. If you don't, you should. Here's a study that looks at virgin olive oil and finds it reduces the risk of stroke. Significantly. And here are a bunch of delicious Ways to get more in your diet.
More Lettuce: Inside-Out BLT
A sandwich that wanted to be a salad. To take advantage of cheap, plentiful summer greens at their seasonal peak. The lettuce is on the outside and the bread's on the inside. An all-American BLT. Just a little confused.
No tomatoes. Watermelon. Gazpacho.
Still a few weeks before we get great tomatoes here. But the watermelon's perfect. For gazpacho. Could be your first course. Or your dessert. A cool, refreshing, flavorful way to start or finish a Summer meal.
Spicy Cool: Cucumber-Yogurt-Mint Soup
A very aromatic, very summery, very light but yogurt-rich soup. Five minutes of preparation. A great Way to use the summer cucumbers now filling the Farmers Markets. Or the two-pounder I just grew.
Seven Layer Salad, Asian style
A salad you make a day or two in advance, store in the fridge, then serve crisp and cool when you're ready. More than 7 flavors and hundreds of phytonutrients. A Glycemic Load of zero with a very, very low calorie count.
Zucchini Carpaccio
Big fresh flavor. Light and refreshing. Impressively beautiful. A very cool dish for a very hot day. No cooking. Five minutes of slicing and dicing. In advance. Then just chill.
Does Weight Gain Make You Hungry?
Sound backwards? Maybe not. Maybe gaining weight and storing fat really does make you hungry. Makes you eat more. And store more fat. Here's how and why it might be true. And why weight loss can be difficult to accomplish.