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Welcome to Love + Craft Kitchen’s Fresh Take,
a chef-driven monthly newsletter featuring information on ingredients, recipes, planning and cooking tips, and other culinary lifestyle-related tidbits – all part of an endeavor to prepare delicious meals that support us in enjoying a healthier life.
Multiple Use Mindset for Dinner Planning
DINNER PLANNING TIP: Get in the “multiple use” mindset. Make the most of the ingredients purchased, limit food waste, and ease meal prep by using raw and cooked ingredients in multiple ways each week. We’ve all had it happen. We purchase that lovely bunch of fresh...
Did you Know that Herbs can be Brain-Boosters?
Did you know that herbs are brain boosters? Not only are they wonderful for flavoring recipes, but they also contain nutrients that support brain health and wellbeing. I love translating nutritional information that I read and research to my hands-on cooking...
7 Cool Summer Wines
Hot days definitely call for a few cool summer wines! I am a city girl and love living in a walking neighborhood. While I also very much enjoy quieter time spent at the ocean, in the mountains, or visiting a park, the city is my home. I truly enjoy the vibe of...
Culinary “Liquid Gold” – Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Extra Virgin Olive Oil is known as culinary "Liquid Gold" for a reason. If there is one ingredient that is central to a healthy, Mediterranean way of cooking, it is extra virgin olive oil. It’s no wonder! This “liquid gold”, as it is often referred to, is rich...
Using Seasonal Ingredients when Dinner Planning
Keeping seasonal ingredients in mind while dinner planning is a great strategy for adding more freshness and nutrients to our meals. I am a farmers market groupie. Truth be told, farmers' markets even make my “things to do” list while I am vacationing! It does...
Incorporate Colorful Fruits into Dinner Plans
Incorporating colorful fruit into dinner plans and recipes adds moisture, flavor and natural sweetness to help lower the need for added sugar. Stroll through a summer farmers market or the produce section of a grocery store and notice how your eyes are drawn to...
Luscious, Creamy Avocados
Avocados are luscious, creamy, and so versatile! They add body and moisture to recipes while providing a large nutritional punch. avocado | noun a pear-shaped fruit with a rough leathery skin, smooth oily edible flesh, and a large stone an edible fruit of...
Nutrient-Rich, Budget-Friendly Chickpeas
Chickpeas are a nutrient-rich, budget-friendly, versatile ingredient that definitely should be in your pantry! “Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.” — Yotam Ottolenghi...
Use Plant Proteins to Jazz Up Your Dinner Planning
Plant proteins are budget-friendly, nutritious, and easily available ingredients to jazz up your dinner planning routine! I don’t even need to ask if you are feeling the budget squeeze when shopping for groceries! Now more than ever is a terrific time to...
Fish and Seafood – Quick and Easy Brain Food
Fish + Seafood = Brain Food For as long as I can recall, I’ve heard the saying that fish and seafood are “brain food”. I have to admit that I did not give much thought to what that really meant, even after professionally getting into the culinary arts. But over...
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