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Healthy Habits: How to (really!) keep your resolutions
By Theresa Albert www.myfriendinfood.com This New Year your only resolution will be to change one habit. That’s it. And, if you do it well many, many other habits will follow and you won’t even
Chef Notes: Hollandaise Sauce
We’ve talked about the five French mother sauces before. They are béchamel, espagnole (brown sauce), hollandaise, tomato, and veloute. Virtually all sauces, with the exception of quick pan sauces, are
What’s So Great (And Bad) About Peanut Butter
I ate my body weight in homemade chocolate peanut butter cups over the holiday. Or at least it was my body weight… until the peanut butter cups… Well you get
Lisa’s Letters Home: Don’t Say Diet, Damn It!
You know it’s the new year when Pinterest goes from deep-fried Nutella-slathered triple layer brownies to nothing but lentils and salad. I’ve heard lots of friends make resolutions to lose
Roundup: Healthy Dinners
Happy New Year everyone! I don’t know about all of you, but I definitely indulged over the Holidays. Now, what is done is done, and it’s time to move on
The Best of 2012…Chef Notes: Compound Butters
We’re picking our favorite posts of 2012 this week and we couldn’t resist this column by Chef Amanda about making your own flavored butters. I started making my own after
What’s So Great About Chia?
The Best of 2012….. In case you got a chia pet this holiday, don’t bother watching it grow. Eat it. We picked this What’s So Great About post as one
Lisa’s Letters Home: Gingerbread House
Oh, Pinterest. Sometimes you have some amazing ideas that work really, really well. Other times, you have ideas that really, really don’t work well – like the Graham cracker gingerbread house.
Sweet Stuff: Morris Kitchen Syrups
We’re sweet on these savoury, spicy and sweet syrups we found at West Elm. They’re hand crafted in Brooklyn and can be used in salad dressings, cocktails, ice creams or
What’s So Bad About Agave Nectar
Wait, what? A couple of years ago I made banana bread for all my clients for Christmas gifts and swapped out the evil white refined sugar for agave nectar. Why?
