Make Your Own

Posted by on Jan 3, 2013 in Cooking, Recipes | 0 comments Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday with all the special people in your life.  We enjoyed a restful and relaxing time with the whole family – it’s always a real treat for me to have all of my kids under my roof. So here we are… January 3!  It’s minus 10 degrees outside, and it’s been snowing for almost 2 days straight.  While a few members of my...
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What do you get when you start with magic…?

Posted by on Aug 3, 2012 in Cooking, Recipes, Vegetables | 0 comments More magic!! If you read my last post then you saw the beautiful veggies I magically pulled out of my garden the other day.  You also read that I planned to re-create an amazing dish I had last week at Life Alive – an incredible restaurant in Salem, Mass. Well, there it is! Now, it’s not always possible to exactly replicate a particular dish, but this is a pretty good spin on the...
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“You should eat it because . . . “

Posted by on Apr 10, 2012 in Raising healthy eaters, Recipes, Vegetables | 0 comments Quick, finish the sentence above! I’ll bet that most of you said “…it’s good for you!” Did you? I’m sure you heard that phrase over and over while you were growing up. There are many variations on that theme: You might have been told to eat something because: “…it will make you big and strong” “…it will give you lots of...
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As Seen On TV . . .

Posted by on Feb 4, 2012 in Cooking, Health, Recipes | 0 comments Did you catch me in my national TV debut?  That’s me on the CTV News Channel this week, chatting with Amanda and Todd about how to lighten up your Super Bowl snacks!  It was an exciting and slightly terrifying experience, but a great time overall!  (I got to sit beside Lisa LaFlamme and have my makeup done!) Make sure you pop over here to get the full details about those healthy snacks....
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What you need right now

Posted by on Jan 8, 2012 in Cooking, Health, Raising healthy eaters, Recipes | 3 comments Have you noticed it too?  In the first week of January, the “D” words are everywhere.  You can’t find a newspaper, magazine or website that isn’t preaching the gospel of “dieting” or worse, “detoxing” right now.  Sorry, folks; I’m not jumping on that bandwagon! As I’ve said before, the best approach to health is to take it one...
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