If you are like many of my clients you might be focused on reducing your sugar intake. How to avoid sugar during the holiday season? It's not easy but here are a couple of strategies. Depending on your reasons to abstain from sugar in the first place you might decide...
What’s in Season? Kale in March
Kale belongs to the cabbage family. You probably also heard other names for this family like Brassica or Cruciferous. It’s one of the most important vegetable families and, certainly, the most diverse. We eat leaves, flowers, seeds, stems and roots of these vegetables. Here are some examples: white and green...
What’s in season? Kohlrabi in January
Kohlrabi - not be confused with Calamari - is a vegetable that belongs to the cabbage family. Another name for cabbage family is brassica. It includes broccoli, cauliflower, kale, radishes, Brussels sprouts and, yes, you guessed it right, cabbage. Kohlrabi also goes by the name German turnip and it’s native...
Chill Baking is done in the fridge instead of the oven
Chill baking is term that I came up with for recipes that I “bake” in the fridge instead of the oven. This technique allows me to make energy bars and load with all kinds of super-foods. You can eat them as an excellent low glycemic snack or as a little...
Is Fermentation Really that Good for Me?
Fermentation is one of the oldest ways to preserve and prepare food. We have been using it for thousands of years. Fermentation is a very simple way of preserving food. All you need to do is provide the bacteria with the right conditions while they do all the work themselves....
Why sugar is not good for us and what to do about it
Yes, we all heard that sugar is not good for us! And yet, we eat so much of it everyday. Often we are not even aware of it! It's in things that don't even taste sweet like bacon, smoked salmon and ketchup. Then there are foods that are marketed to...