What to do with a pile of leftover mashed potatoes? How about Mashed Potato Croquettes for something a little different? Who doesn’t love mashed potatoes? I used organic Yukon Gold potatoes and put them through a food grinder — with the skins! — for nutritious deliciousness. This year my husband declared that I had made […]
One of the things I love about our neighborhood is that there are fruit trees and bushes planted on the public byways for all to enjoy. Within a block of our house we can harvest plums, blackberries, and cherries as they ripen. My 7-year old daughter and I picked a bucketful of tart cherries this […]
To say goodbye to the last of the Thanksgiving turkey, I usually try to get creative. Turkey enchiladas and Friday turkey soup have been past hits. This year I decided to go with turkey pizza and it turned out to be more than good enough to get the family excited about having turkey yet another […]
Welcome to Effortless Eating, your resource for healthy recipes, natural health solutions, and general healthy lifestyle advice. Some recent posts that might interest you are: A round-up of my off-the-beaten-path Thanksgiving recipes. Advice for turning picky eaters into adventurous eaters. Are low-fat diets the healthiest way to go? What science has shown since the 1980s. […]
If can feel like everyone is deep frying turkeys for Thanksgiving these days. But what do you do with all that used cooking oil after the turkey comes out? Pouring it down the drain or on the ground, or even tossing it into the trash, can have disasterous effects on wildlife and drinking water if […]