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Use “Grocery Store Helpers” to Your Advantage
Dinner Planning Tip #12: Use “Grocery Store Helpers” to your advantage during the busy holiday season and any time of year. For the final dinner planning tip of 2022, I am bringing you one that definitely makes things easier! Let's face it, we all can use a bit of...
6 Tips for Working With Chocolate
Chocolate… it’s a favorite of many, signifying all things delightfully special, and decadent! Whether in its simplest form or in a more complex dessert, chocolate is a versatile ingredient. Use it as the main attraction, a complimentary ingredient, or used as a...
Prepping Ahead – a Helpful Dinner Strategy
Dinner Planning Tip: Prep a few things ahead. For as long as I can recall, I have been a planner and I like feeling prepared. This plays out in my home kitchen all the time. I am not a “meal prepper” in the sense of making a week’s worth of meals all in one...
Enhance Your Cooking With Walnuts
Browse through Mediterranean cookbooks or online sources and you'll likely notice that walnuts are included in many of the recipes. It's no wonder since they originated in the region and Central Asia thousands of years ago. Today, California and several other U.S....
Bloom Your Spices to Extract More Flavor
Why is it that the flavors of some dishes come through so deliciously while others seem flat? Using a simple technique to extract more flavor from spices may be the answer. Either through reading my posts or attending my classes, you may recall that I strongly...
Think Outside the Oven When Dinner Planning
Think outside the oven – put your slow cooker, pressure cooker, or multi-cooker to work! Many households have a slow cooker, pressure cooker, or multi-cooker, yet sometimes these handy appliances are underutilized. One great dinner planning strategy is to put...
Dinner Planning Tip: Take a Periodic Cooking Adventure
Dinner Planning Tip: Take a periodic cooking adventure. Adding something new to the weekly dinner plan keeps things interesting, fires up the taste buds, and provides a new experience. It’s easy to fall into the same dinner planning routine, rotating through a...
5 Easy-to-Find Fermented Ingredients to Jazz Up Your Recipes
5 EASY-TO-FIND FERMENTED INGREDIENTS TO JAZZ UP YOUR RECIPES Ingredients that are fermented add interest, umami, and additional nutritional value to recipes. You may have noticed a newer refrigerated section in your local grocery store dedicated to fermented...
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...
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