While testing recipes from an upcoming book for author and blogger extraodinairewho brought us this crunchtime recipe, the soba noodle entered our kitchen in a big way. Mypriordismissiveness of this super-charged food came from thinking it was another carb that doesn’t belong on my plate. I was wrong.
Found under SuperFast entrées in this favorite publication, this recipe had everything going for it. I said yes, please. If you don’t think scallops are your thing or maybe they’re to hard to come buy, I ask you to reconsider understanding that this powerful protein packed mollusk is low-fat, low-cholesterhol and loaded with omega 3’s. And if I’m seeming like Mitt Romney ignoring the pricier side of scallops, let me suggest that if you keep portions to the recommended 4-6 oz protein serving size, buy on sale or frozen, scallops are more affordable. And as we like to say, repeat after me…”pay the farmer now, or the doctor later.” read more
We love turkey chili at crunchtime and for good reason. Savory chili is a one-pot meal, it’s freezer friendly, hard to mess up, and relies on two foods that are a-okay in cans. When this recipe arrived on our Healthy Dinner Tonight fax from epicurious, its righteous balance of proteins and vegetables spoke to us.
Another book is out praising the French for their approach to food only this one focuses on children and has stirred up a debate of whether French make better parents. According to the American author, who raised her kids in Paris, French kids readily eat nearly all vegetables without complaint because at an early age they acquire a taste. It’s the persistence, not the demands, that give French children a chance to learn to like vegetables. Would they rather eat cake? Oui. But they also eat vegetables…did I say without complaint?
As an American, I’ll go right to a popular French sweet after school snack that makes its way to breakfast thanks to the masterful chef and ex-pat living in Paris, Dorie Greenspan, who offered a quick breakfast idea that would make even the French take notice.
An author once told me that much to her objection, publishers made her put the word Diet in the title of her book or it would not sell. I assume the same happened to the authors of another book I’ve discovered thanks to my dad, who lemmings after all things Mayo Clinic.
The Mayo Clinic Diet book to me reads like a lifestyle meal plan rather than a gimmicky diet. Sure there’s a two week kick-starter plan, scolding restrictions (like no eating in front of TV), journaling, recipes, but it all ends
with(spoiler alert)……
