RECIPES: Vegan Easter Desserts
Adjusting to a vegan diet for yourself or a loved one can be a challenge any day of the week, but particularly at the holidays when traditional, family-tested dishes often play a starring role. This Easter, make everyone at your table feel at home with these healthy...
RECIPES: Asparagus!
When these lovely spears pop up in the markets, you know spring is around the corner. Loaded with fiber, folate, and Vitamins C, E and K, asparagus has all kinds of health benefits, including managing blood pressure, fighting cognitive impairment, and balancing blood...
RECIPES: Get a Flavor Kick (and a Healthy Heart) By Cooking with Raw Garlic
A garlic compound known as allicin can potentially reduce the risk of developing heart disease and help regulate high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Chopping or crushing the garlic clove and consuming it raw is the best way to reap the benefits. (On a side note:...
RECIPES: Cooking with Legumes, Nuts and Seeds
Some of the best sources of plant-based protein are also some of the most versatile when it comes to cooking delicious, healthy food. If you're looking to move more toward a plant-based diet, nuts, seeds and legumes will surely be your friends....and for good reason!...
RECIPES: Not (Only) Your Grandmother’s Latke
Hanukkah's best-known food—the beloved potato latke (a.k.a. fried potato pancake)—is also a relatively recent addition to the festival-of-light festivities. Potatoes actually became part of the recipe in the mid-19th century, replacing pancakes made of cheese (usually...
RECIPES: How to Make an Amazing Vegan Thanksgiving
Vegans often get the short end of the Thanksgiving stick. Their hosts may forget that chicken stock and eggs aren’t vegan, and they're almost always left without dessert, save some fruit. This year, if we have our say, no vegan will be left behind! Follow a few simple...
RECIPES: Not-So-Scary DIY Halloween Treats
You want to give your children Halloween treats they'll love, but without all the ghoulish stuff—GMOs, artificial flavors and colors, high fructose corn syrup—you avoid all other times of year. While healthier packaged treats are more readily available than ever (come...
SEPTEMBER IS FERMENTATION MONTH!
DIY PROBIOTIC-RICH FERMENTED FOODS AT HOME Nourish your gut—naturally. Brimming with probiotics, tangy lacto-fermented veggies are a delicious way to maintain a balanced microbiome and healthy digestive system. Plus, they’re surprisingly easy to make at home. Follow...
RECIPES: Fermentation Inspiration
Fermented foods—resurging in popularity because of their ability to improve digestive health, boost immunity and fight inflammation—contain beneficial bacteria created through a process called lacto-fermentation. You can make your own fermented foods at home in a few...
RECIPES: Late-Summer Stone Fruits
Yes, the season is winding down, but summer still has some juicy secrets up her sleeve. Stone fruits—namely plums, pluots and apricots—will be abundant in August. Ripe and luscious, in a salad or in a pastry, let these sweet-and-sour gems top off a sultry summer....