There are a lot of food books out there. Traditional cookbooks, diet missives, food lifestyle guides and more flood the shelves of bookstores and libraries.

So it is rare that I find a food book that piques my interest enough to thoroughly peruse it, and even rarer that I get excited enough about the book that I want to recommend it. And yet, a book my Mother-in-Law shared with me did just that; in fact, it got me so excited I found myself sharing random facts about the antioxidants in horseradish to others. It takes a lot to get me talking about horseradish. [more]

As life gets busy and busier, I find us doing more eating-on-the-run, especially as I tote R and G around to and from school, activities and other fun times.

If we can't eat a healthy *meal* on the run, sometimes I can sneak in an extra vegetable or fruit through snack time. These easy, easy pita chips are a surefire way to get R and G to eat extra hummus. Every time I make homemade pita chips, the boys get all sorts of excited and gobble up an extra dose of whatever I am serving up with them. [more]

Before I met my good friend Jenn, I had never heard of a tomatillo.

Haven't been introduced yet? A tomatillo looks like a small green tomato, covered in a thin husk. But when you cut into a tomatillo, it reveals:

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You may or may not have realized it, but a holiday week began yesterday. No, not the official start of Autumn (that's tomorrow). Any other guesses? It isn't a holiday that would be listed on a traditional calendar, either, so this might be a tall order.

Yesterday began National Eat Together Week, a week dedicated to encouraging families to take time to share a meal once a day together...eating all at once...at a table...without any distractions. [more]

One of the key reasons I love to cook things from scratch is that you avoid all sorts of Unidentified Food Ingredients or as I call them "UFIs" or "gunk." Haven't you ever wondered what all those unpronounceable food items are on some ingredient lists? Me too. And since I am not a food scientist, I just have a blanket policy that if it is unpronounceable, listed just as an acronym or has a number (ie, food dye), it doesn't go in our grocery cart. [more]