You Don’t Need A Kitchen To Be A Chef

Brian Palmer is a regular Slate contributor for Explainer articles.

Stir-fries, soups, frittatas, and quesadillas are obvious choices, but be creative. This is all about breaking rules.

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Turn 5 Main Ingredients into 25 Dinners

Dietitian living and eating my way through Washington, DC. Follow me as I train for the National Marathon in DC on March 17th. Learn quick easy meals, and training tips, and more! Thanks for reading.

Too busy to cook dinner every night? Trying to not spend a ton of money at the grocery store? Here's how you can take 1 main ingredient and turn it into 5 new dinners. As I mentioned in my meal planning post, cook this main ingredient when you get home [...]

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Cincinnati Chili

Known as a magician in the kitchen, Marlene makes life easier for families worldwide with her incredible tasting healthy recipes and easy-to-follow realistic nutrition advice. Marlene Koch, R.D., is a leading nutritionist, popular TV personality and best-selling author in the field of cooking, health and wellness. With over 700,000 copies of her healthy, low-sugar cookbooks sold, she’s a regular guest on QVC and her books and recipes have appeared on television programs including The Today Show and The Food Network, as well as in numerous magazine articles and columns.

Per the popular tradition, Cincinnati Chili is usually served one of five ways. A 1-way is plain chili; a 2-way is chili served over spaghetti; 3-way is chili over spaghetti topped with cheese; 4-way is topped with either beans or chopped red onions; and 5-way gets you spaghetti topped with [...]

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10 Minute Dinner Sweet Potato with Spinach and Egg Scramble

Dietitian living and eating my way through Washington, DC. Follow me as I train for the National Marathon in DC on March 17th. Learn quick easy meals, and training tips, and more! Thanks for reading.

Yesterday, I got home late from work and wanted something quick and easy to eat for dinner. I contemplated peanut butter toast or running out to get something. Instead, I turned to my quick, nutritious go-to meal, Sweet Potato with Egg and Spinach Scramble. This meal is loaded with nutrients, [...]

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Crab Roll

Hi and welcome to my blog! I am a Registered Dietitian, chocoholic, lover of food, Zumba enthusiast, kickboxing lover, and new blogger. I recently started this blog to showcase the type of food I love to cook; healthy, easy, delicious, nutritious and whole food. All of the recipes here come from one of my cookbooks, food magazines, other food blogs, or a combination of any of the above. A lot of the recipes I find, I usually tweak it a bit to include extra vegetables and less saturated fat. I hope to inspire you to make a delicious, healthy, feel-good meal. Thank you for visiting!

To me, this is a splurge type of dinner. Why? well because I normally don't buy crab (its kinda expensive) and my boyfriend doesn't go crabbing (salmon and rock cod are another story, got tons of that in the freezer!). Yet, since it is crab season in Santa Cruz (January), [...]

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Recipes for Health Puréed White Bean Soup With Pistou

Martha Rose Shulman, author of NY Times popular Recipes for Health series, answers your questions about the ingredients for a healthy kitchen.

White beans and pesto or pistou (pesto without the pine nuts) always make a nice marriage. Thin the pistou with a little extra olive oil so that you can drizzle it over the rich-tasting purée. White beans and pesto or pistou (pesto without the pine nuts) always make a nice [...]

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Thanksgiving Side Dishes, Part 2: Gluten-Free Stuffings

Martha Rose Shulman, author of NY Times popular Recipes for Health series, answers your questions about the ingredients for a healthy kitchen.

Stuffing has always been high on my list of favorite Thanksgiving dishes. This year I wanted to play around with gluten-free dishes based on whole grains that could go inside a bird but also stand alone.

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Spicy Miso and Pumpkin Soup

Sweet and spicy, this thick soup uses a white miso base for flavor and nutrition.

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Beet Greens Bruschetta With Poached Egg and Fontina

Martha Rose Shulman, author of NY Times popular Recipes for Health series, answers your questions about the ingredients for a healthy kitchen.

You’d think I’d get tired of greens. But this week while I was buying a nice bunch of beets at the market and another customer asked the vendor to cut off the greens from her beets, I jumped at the chance to get two bunches of free greens.

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Recipes for Health: Beans

Martha Rose Shulman, author of NY Times popular Recipes for Health series, answers your questions about the ingredients for a healthy kitchen.

They lurk in every pantry: cans and bags of beans bought long ago for a forgotten meal, now dusty and unloved on a back shelf. See what they are!

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Dinner for One: Poached Eggs and Vegetables

Martha Rose Shulman, author of NY Times popular Recipes for Health series, answers your questions about the ingredients for a healthy kitchen.

Dinner for one can be a conundrum. If you never know when you’re going to be home it’s difficult to plan. If you’ve been cooking for a family for years and now your children are out of the house, you may be flummoxed by the idea of preparing a meal for just one person. Or say you’re divorced, and some nights your children are with their other parent. How do you plan a dinner for yourself?

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