Halloumi Tacos with Pineapple Salsa and Aji Verde is another taco recipe that I love. If you have never had Halloumi cheese, you are in for a real treat with this one. Halloumi cheese is thought to have originated in Greece or Turkey, but has been around for centuries.
Fats are good! I repeat: fats are good! … some of them.
I’d like to give you an easy to understand summary of what to look for in foods to help you eat fewer bad fats and more healthy fats. You’ll see some common buzzwords in quotes.
Here is another favorite recipe in the Lessing home – it is a little more time intensive than some of our usual weeknight recipes, so it is a special treat when we have it on the menu. This recipe is from Kate from the blog Cookie and Kate.
Gardening is a new hobby of mine, but I have always loved yard work. As silly as it may seem, even going outside to pull weeds in my front yardscape makes me feel better because it allows me to pause and just be outside with my plants.
Ellie Krieger is one of my favorite nutritionist chefs, and I love the recipes in her cookbook, So Easy. One of my favorite dishes in this book is Chicken with Warm Tomato-Corn Salad.
We hear a lot about fasting or intermittent fasting these days. Questions about fasting diets come up often in my practice. This and other supposedly “fad” diets are all over the media, but is this one truly a fad?
Do you ever see those packages of mini sweet peppers at the grocery store and wonder what you could do with them? Look no further, I have the perfect recipe!
This is my favorite healthy smoothie that tastes just like mint chocolate chip ice cream!
This smoothie has several nutrition superstars, but did you know that mint has the additional benefit of helping with indigestion and nausea?
I know I’m not alone in my love for this warming morning ritual. It starts days, brings people together, and crosses cultures. I have cherished memories of sipping café con leche at the corner coffee shop in my mom’s hometown in Spain.
It is almost ironic that the eve of celebrating the dead cherishes a food that causes the most health problems in the world. Candy, whether it be the hard candy or chocolate variety, has sugar as the main ingredient. Sugar is being more widely accepted as the contributing cause of many medical issues including diabetes, cancer and even mood disorders in adults and kids.