As Christmas approaches, your mouth may be watering with the thought of mounds of holiday goodies you’re used to. Trouble is many of those foods are likely to wreak havoc on the rest of your body. From high-fat, high-sodium dips and meatballs to pastry-wrapped vegetables to calorie-crazy eggnog and other festive concoctions, the holidays […]
After World War II, rationing in Europe made chocolate so expensive that an Italian pastry maker named Pietro Ferrero began adding chopped hazelnuts to stretch out his supply of chocolate to create what he called “Pasta Gianduja” – a hard paste that was sliced and placed on bread, like cheese. A few years later, he […]
While our lives are slowly beginning to return to normal, many of us are still spending a lot of time at home – including eating out or taking out a lot less. In our last couple of posts we showed you mouthwatering recipes to make your own guacamole and hummus. Today… it’s pizza! Americans […]
Last month we explored one our favorite healthy comfort foods around, guacamole. This month, we head on over to the eastern Mediterranean for another: hummus. First, for your hummus to taste as authentic as possible you have to pronounce it the right way. ‘Hummus’ doesn’t sound so much like ‘hum and ‘muss’ stuck together, […]
