One of my weight-loss/weight-management/healthy eating secrets is my lunchtime salad ritual. Like many people, my weight fluctuates, especially when I lapse into poor eating habits and end up eating too many processed foods. Yes, I have my weaknesses — mostly around desserts! So I try to follow a routine that includes a salad for lunch. […]
Category: Recipes
Italian Zucchini Soup
Several zucchini the size of cricket bats greet me the morning after a week-long vacation this summer. Along with a number of full-sized yellow crookneck squash, smiling up innocently from beneath the leaves. Clearly, something had to be done. And quickly! I had a hankering for soup. I wasn’t sure what kind, though. Perhaps Indian? […]
Barbequed Quahogs
While visiting the east coast this summer, my husband gathered a bucket of quahogs from a bed near the shore. He brought them back and scrubbed and bearded them. Then he opened up the grill. Quahogs are hard-shelled clams found along the coast of New England. They are pronounced “co-hogs”, with a thick Boston accent. […]
Zucchini Bread
Last summer my world was in disarray. We had recently moved into a new house, the kids were still very young and demanding, the cookbook had recently been released, and I told myself I just had too much going on to deal with a garden. It may have been a less-than-wise decision because I mourned […]
