Articles in Recipe Ideas category
Healthy Recipe Idea: Exotic Black Rice & Beans
Black rice sounds exotic enough that I had to try it. After minimal searching, I found it at a local grocery on the rice and pasta aisle.
Healthy Recipe Idea: Winter Squash & Edamame Pasta
My wife was baking acorn squash for her nutrition class. She teaches at the community college and each week tries to offer a sampling of healthy foods and new flavors the students may have never been exposed to.
Healthy Recipe Idea: Basil Chicken & Bok Choy
This light and healthy dish features bok choy, basil and tahini. Bok choy, also known as Chinese cabbage, is rich in fiber, vitamin C, folate, beta-carotene and indoles.
Recipe Idea: Cumin-Rubbed Sweet Potatoes with Sage
It’s no secret that sweet potatoes are an excellent low calorie source of nutrients. Unless they’re drenched in butter, sugar, and marshmallows. This holiday season try flavoring your favorite vegetables with herbs and spices rather than overload them with butter and oils.
Delicious Stir Fry with Potent Anti-Cancer Components
I bet you never knew that preventing cancer could be so delicious! Every ingredient in this recipe has a powerful anti-cancer component.
Recipe Idea: Pumpkin Buckwheat Waffles
I’ve been experimenting with breakfast ideas, trying to trim wheat and some carbs out of the start-the- day-meal. Creating a healthy breakfast that doesn’t raise your blood glucose and contains healthy fats is a real challenge. Eggs certainly pass for healthy, but most classic breakfast ingredients do not. And sneaking vegetables into breakfast is a near impossible assignment.
Easy Veggie Chili (with secret ingredient!)
There are almost an unlimited number of chili recipes and many of them can be made without meat. The following is a recipe for a rich and healthy chili that can be made in about 10 minutes. You won’t miss the meat!
Grocery Shopping Tips
My trips to the grocery would be best described as restocking trips. Sometimes I carry a list, but most of the time I have a fairly good idea of what I need in my head. Usually I go one to three times per week.
Turmeric-Roasted Cauliflower
While flipping through the latest copy of Food & Wine magazine, this gorgeous roasted cauliflower dish caught my eye! What a beautiful yellow hue the turmeric adds. Plus the warming spices contained in this recipe are an ideal compliment to the cool, wet weather of March.
Hunger Buster Smoothie
The key ingredients in this smoothie (coconut oil, chia seeds and protein powder) will suppress hunger for hours. They contain fiber, antioxidants, protien and essential fatty acids and are is especially ideal for those seeking weight loss, heightened athletic performance, maintenence of normal blood glucose, or recovery from chronic disease.
Pear & Avocado Salad
An exotic and delicious light meal or side dish that is perfectly fitting for summer!
Travel Smorgasbord
Food can be an exciting part of travel and most of the time finding healthy food is not very difficult. A personal rule of avoiding all chain-restaurants and typical fast-food adds a little adventure to travel.
Spicy Shrimp and Sea Scallops
The herbs in this delicious and unique seafood dish serve double duty— they also have powerful antimicrobial and disease fighting properties!
Sassy Shrimp & Avocado Dip
Whether your October is filled with football tailgates or Halloween decorating, here is a healthy appetizer idea that will be sure to please at all of your upcoming gatherings! 
My Healthy Birthday Cake
Today is my birthday (not revealing how many candles!) and my wife baked my favorite birthday treat – CARROT CAKE. And the best part, she was able to incorporate some healthy modifications that made it a special treat while still allowing us to feel good about eating it. It is so delicious that I have to share!
All About Quinoa
Quinoa (pronounced Keen-wah), an ancient grain-like seed crop, has been cultivated in the Andes region of South America for thousands of years. Though technically not a true grain, quinoa’s nutritious seeds are easily substituted for grains because of simliar cooking characteristics. Quinoa offers a powerhouse of nutrients and is quickly becoming known as a super food. Though less well known in North American, it is becoming available in grocery stores across the country.
The Nutritional Advantage of Free Range Eggs
Like seeds, eggs have everything necessary to nurture new life, and therefore are packed with nutrition. Eggs are important sources of certain vitamins and minerals and are an excellent source of quality protein. Eggs have high levels of lecithin, a very important ingredient for healthy cell membranes. Although they have been maligned in recent years because they are high in cholesterol, eggs also tend to be high in favorable essential fatty acids.
Ten Egg-citing Breakfast Ideas
When my patients start to make diet changes, they often ask: What can I eat for breakfast? The Standard American diet (SAD) typically involves cold cereal. Cereal is often a poor choice because it is processed, involves heating grains to high temperatures and is high in sugar. We so easily choose cereal but will be swayed to think that eggs or avocados aren’t healthy choices.
It's Salad Season!
When my son (now 15) was in preschool, he was asked to describe his mom. Besides saying I was 14 (I was 41), he said my favorite food was salad. He was right and it still is my favorite food. There is nothing like a good salad and this happens to be the perfect time of year to create that salad. With local lettuce abounding at farmer’s markets or in CSA boxes or grown in your own garden, take advantage of a big salad for lunch or dinner.
Beat the Heat with Low-Carb Lettuce Wraps
Looking for a fun, healthy summer entree that everyone is sure to love? Lettuce wraps are an easy, low-carb meal that allow everyone to create their own favorite combination.
