Thrive Diet is a relatively easy to follow program for athletes that have food allergies, are vegan, or just want to get their nutrition from whole foods. The hardest thing of going plants only is accepting you can get solid protein and nutrition. Thankfully, the author knows how to research and presents his findings dispassionately [...]
Jamie Oliver’s cookbook is beautiful. It is full color, complete with step-by-step pictures and easy to follow traditional recipes but with a definite twist.Jamie’s cooking hook is that the recipes are fairly quick, good for you and easy.So easy in fact, that Jamie has rounded up a bunch of every day folks who would never [...]
I bought Momofuku a few weeks ago, after I heard an interview with the author on NPR. Coincidentally, my eleven year old daughter and I are going through a Ramen Noodles craze, inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s films (the grandfather in Whisper of the Heart serves noodles to the young ones when in distress; and in [...]
I ordered this after reading a recipe in our local newspaper taken from the book.It has some wonderful, original recipes, with clear instructions, and, even better, guidance about how to buy a small slow cooker and what you can do with it once you have it.
Most of the recipes are too large for the really [...]
Let me start by saying I’m a busy working mom of two.I grew up eating Hamburger Helper and hot dogs, so I didn’t learn to cook until I was an adult.My dad’s had triple bypass and my mom’s having gastric bypass, so we’re trying to learn from their mistakes and eat not entirely vegetarian, but [...]
