Loving the breakfast cookie trend – take a bite of this, this, and this - kids think they’re getting something decadent for breakfast and you exert nothing more than a freezer-to-microwave maneuver.  Carnival Cookies, they’re called and are the brilliant creation from natural food cookbook author, Heidi Swanson.  The thing about Heidi, [...]

Although February is the shortest month for most folks, it seems very long to me.  Like the actors parading on the red carpet at one award ceremony after another, I spent most of the month flitting between lectures and interviews.  It looks glamorous to be picking out new [...]

Getting real food on the table isn’t our only challenge.  How we speak about food to our families is just as important as how we prepare it.  We are up against the billion dollar packaged and fast food marketing budgets.  You don’t see anyone making a song and dance number [...]

When cold rainy days happen to Southern California, it might as well be the Canadian Rockies in January.  This is our cold season, the trigger that brings out Uggs, woolen coats, and scarves and gives us a long overdue excuse to stay inside. We had two days of California winter [...]

I first learned about this clever company You Bars on Cooking Channel’s, Foodcrafters program.  The foodcrafters at You Bar let us create our own health bars, cookies, trail mix and more by selecting from their nearly endless list of healthy ingredients.  The coolest part is they customize the packaging label. [...]