Winter squashes are my short cut, when it comes to making easy healthy meals in the fall. Simply by putting a squash in the oven I’ve given myself a healthy start to a delicious meal. Note: often, for ease, I don’t even cut the squash before I put it in...
My family and I have a yearly tradition of heading to the Laurentians (a lake and mountain region North of Montreal). And, as sometimes happens with rituals, we have some food traditions that go with it too. We always go eat French Crepes, we always eat Montreal...
I’m going to cut to the chase here because as I write this, I’m also in the last minute packing frenzy to go on a trip with my husband and kids to see family and friends. So here’s the deal: To stay healthy when you travel you need to eat healthy. To...
It’s been years since I’ve had coffee. When I was in college, I was so stressed that I got an ulcer, and it was just too painful to drink coffee…so I gave it up. But I never gave up walking down the coffee bean aisle at the grocery store and deeply...
There’s nothing like a big dollop of whipped cream on top of ice cream, waffles, berries – really whatever – to make a luscious dessert. But I don’t recommend whipped cream made from cow’s milk, because dairy (unlike what the Dairy...
Sometimes I get a bit stuck on one food, I think whatever it is that I’m into is so great that I keep making it over and over again. Sometimes these food passions are phases (like last summer when I made Vanilla Bean Cake 14 times!), sometimes they are just...