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I like fast dinners. Not in the “I’ll get a fries with that, and how about some of that special sauce?” sense, but rather in the throw-everything-in-the-same-pot-and-it-still-turns-out-delicious sense. Sometimes this preference drives Peter nuts (“a stir-fry again?”). Of course, he’s the one whistling over his sous vide machine for two hours while simultaneously
This post is a continuation of the Monday Munchies series where I show everything I eat over the course of single day (last Tuesday when I was constantly running around). Still made time for proper meals, including breakfast, a.k.a. the day’s nutritional foundation! Breakfast, 7 am: Bircher muesli made with honey Noosa yogurt and almond [...]
By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by National Honey Board and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I was not compensated for my time. Surprise! I usually don’t post on Sundays, but today I decided to break the THIH mold. Why? (1) It’s Sunday, SUNDAY, Sunday … [...]
About a month ago, Peter mentioned a strange thing to me. He had been weeding in the garden and noticed melons had randomly sprouted among his tomatoes and peppers. Assuming they had grown from thinned melon seedlings thrown into the garden to biodegrade, he unceremoniously yanked them from the ground. I didn’t think anything of [...]
About a month ago, Peter mentioned a strange thing to me. He had been weeding in the garden and noticed that melons had randomly sprouted among his tomatoes and peppers. Assuming they had sprouted from thinned melon seedlings thrown into the garden to biodegrade, Peter unceremoniously yanked them from the ground. I didn’t think anything [...]
By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by National Honey Board and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I received a gift card to offset the expense of my ingredients. Honey. Just the name invokes images of sweet desserts and savory dishes with a hint of something extra. [...]
Last week, Peter and I went scuba diving with his parents in Bonaire, an island in the Caribbean which is a municipality of the Netherlands. I’ve described previous trips to Bonaire here: Welcome to Bonaire and A Day in the Life of a Scuba Diver. Check out these posts to read what it’s like to [...]
Everyone needs a good biscotti recipe. These lightly-sweetened biscuits are the lace trimmings of the dessert world: classy at a casual brunch, yet gorgeous enough to serve with the fanciest tea. And they come in any flavor you could ever want. These biscuits are perfect for munching with hot tea or coffee, or with a [...]
I had a few requests to post pictures of the hand-knit sweater I referenced in this post. Behold: I particularly like the cabled waist and sleeves: This sweater is definitely the most complicated project I’ve ever knit. For someone who had only knit scarves and hats prior to this project (plus one vest which will [...]
Why did I randomly post a picture of roses at the end of my last post? Red-hued decorations for Casa THIH? Kinship with the family Rosaceae? How about none of the above? Last Friday, Peter gave me roses to celebrate our wedding anniversary. What could I do but show them off? I think the past [...]
A client recently asked for suggestions on how to include more fruits and vegetables in his diet. Let me tell you: that request will make a dietitian weep with joy. I’ve already discussed a few ways to turn your meals into veggie- and fruit-fests; for more ideas, see here, here and here. And know you’re [...]
A Poem for My Beloved Apricots by The Bard of J-Town I never thought I’d find a fruit, That more than berries would me suit, Until your sweetness hit the spot, Of you I speak, my apricot! Fresh or dried, jelly or jam, Your versatility’s not a sham, Dried with cheese is def my thing, [...]
Over the weekend, I posted this picture to THIH’s Facebook page and asked for guesses as to where I might be: Most guesses were for Rome, which is not too far off … in a way. Although I have to say, despite my 26 hour trip to Paris, I think a weekend trip to Rome [...]
When we were in high school, my best bud Amy and I had a thing for raspberries (and cherry pie filling that comes in a can, but that’s another story). Looking for fruit? An entire pint of raspberries would suffice. One of us even had an AIM username with the word “raspberry” in it. I [...]
Yesterday, while I was rearranging the spices in alphabetical order, Peter called out from the next room. “Jessie! It’s opening! Over here! Over HERE!” Since last year’s single passion fruit flower bloomed, I’ve anticipated the opening of our passion fruit plant’s DOZEN buds. That’s right: we’ve duodecupled our passion fruit crop. I expect a gross [.
This post is a continuation of the Update Your Plate series, where I demonstrate how to use MyPlate to plan your meals. Read the story behind Update Your Plate here. (Before I begin, I just want to say thank you for all your kind words on my last post! It wasn’t easy to write, and [...]
Today, I’d like to talk about a subject I’ve never discussed on THIH: weight. I hesitated writing this post because there’s a lot of sensitivity surrounding the subject. As I wrote in my FAQ, I feel our society has too much of a fixation on weight. For both women AND men, there exist strong external [...]
Part 1: The Guest Post Check out my post on Stone Soup, the blog of Food and Nutrition Magazine, a publication of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In this article, I highlight my Update Your Plate series, where I demonstrate how to use MyPlate to plan your meals. While all the UYP posts feature [...]
There’s a bakery in Ludlow, Vermont that I miss with all my taste buds. If you’re a long-time reader of THIH, you may remember a fleeting mention of Sweet Surrender in this post. … What am I saying? If you actually remember that post, then your name is Peter. And even that’s a stretch. Anyway. [...]
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. Ruth Stout After last week’s asparagus extravaganza, I knew I had to cook with this tasty veggie again. Peter and I have enjoyed both roasted and steamed asparagus – how about raw? “Never!” I said. “Too crunchy and [...]
This post is a continuation of the Monday Munchies series where I show everything I eat over the course of single day. These eats took place yesterday (Sunday). I prefer to show a mix of eats from weekends AND weekdays; however, lately it seems I never remember to take pictures until the weekend before a [...]
Can you guess what’s in the picture above? Answer at end of post! Just a quick blurb today to show off some of the crazy-good chocolate Peter and I (mostly Peter) have been churning out. We haven’t stopped at flavored truffles – oh, no. There’s some awesomeness going on in the THIH kitchen. For instance, [...]
The time has come, dear reader – it’s asparagus season. I’ve been incorporating this vegetable into everything I can think of. Plain roasted with a little salt? Check. Tossed with roasted beets and a little balsamic vinegar? Double check. Baked into cookies? Well, there is a limit to my creativity. Asparagus is rich in vitamins [...]
I make a lot of mistakes in the kitchen. For example, see this post, this post, this post and this album on THIH’s Facebook page, which has not been updated in a while and should contain many more disasters. These mistakes have never yielded the deliciousness of accidental and fortuitous invention. They are disasters, after [...]
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I have a confession to make. Up until the end of last week, I strongly disliked tempeh. Not as much as when I shudder at the thought of fibrous green stalks of doom, but enough to avoid it in the grocery store. You may say, “Well, by golly, Jessie, there’s nothing wrong with disliking a [...]
This post is a continuation of the Monday Munchies series where I show everything I eat over the course of single day. These eats took place last Saturday (two days ago), when I realized I had planned to do an MM without actually taking the pictures for it. Breakfast, 8:30 am: Bircher Muesli topped with [...]
One thing I love about The Recipe Redux‘s contests and monthly challenges is that they push me to be more adventurous with food. I’m the first to admit I’m still a shrinking flower-of-sorts when it comes to culinary adventures (despite what this post says). Still, I’m working on it, bit by chewy bit. What better [...]
A few days ago, I reached in the back of our refrigerator and immediately forgot what I was searching for. Why? Because my fingers touched the most disgusting object possible among the world of the once-edibles (and no, I’m not talking about celery): black bananas. Keep in mind that my fingers didn’t just graze this [...]
(1) Bircher Muesli No surprise there. I’ve enjoyed this breakfast for several weeks now with various combinations of fruits, nuts and seeds. I even made a huge batch for customers at Strawberry Fields to sample while they asked me nutrition questions. I topped the samples with an in-store trail mix. I didn’t expect people to [...]
While Peter and I were in Switzerland, I discovered Bircher Muesli. This breakfast dish consists of raw oats soaked in milk/yogurt and is served everywhere in Switzerland, from bakeries to grocery stores and beyond. I kept waiting to find a Bircher Muesli pop-up stand on the streets of Zurich. Nutrition pioneer Maximilian Bircher-Benner developed Bircher [...]
Thank you for all your good wishes in my last post concerning my ever-lasting cold! I’m at the tail-end of it and feeling kilometers better than I was a few days ago. Of course, now that I’m ready to resume my normal routine, Peter is coming down with the sniffles again. It’s like we’re running [...]
This post is a continuation of the Monday Munchies series where I show everything I eat over the course of single day. These eats took place last Monday, when my appetite was less than 100% due to a cold (looks like I need to give my immune system a tune-up, what?). Breakfast, 8:00 am: In [...]
Egg salad has never been one of my favorite foods. Poorly made, it can be alternately mushy from too much mayo or mashing or crumbly from hard-boiled egg yolks (which you couldn’t get me to touch as a kid. Seriously, what other food had that texture?) Egg “salad” was made worse when sandwiched between two [...]
Impossible, you say? You can judge for yourself shortly. As I hinted in my last post, Peter and I made a mysterious side trip in the middle of our Switzerland adventures. When I discovered Paris was only four hours from Zurich by train, I pushed for us to go, particularly as we’d seen all we [...]
Back in 2010, our friends Andy and Michelle visited us all the way from Switzerland. They were traveling to several places in the US and their Connecticut stopover coincided with the end of my travels in China. I saw them for a day or two at the end of their visit, when I was so [...]
Note: I am currently traveling and may not be able to immediately respond to emails, etc. Thanks for your patience! This post is adapted from my post on Stone Soup, the blog of Food and Nutrition Magazine, which is a publication of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Shortly before my husband and I were [...]
Note: I am currently traveling and may not be able to immediately respond to emails, etc. Thanks for your patience! This post is excerpted from a post I wrote back in May 2010. The recipe for homemade dan tat in that post is one of the most popular recipes on THIH and the one about [...]
Note: I am currently traveling and may not be able to immediately respond to emails, etc. Thanks for your patience! This post is a continuation of the Monday Munchies series where I show everything I eat over the course of single day. These eats took place on a Friday about a week ago when I [...]
Note: I am currently traveling and may not be able to immediately respond to emails, etc. Thanks for your patience! Those who are lactose intolerant may have difficulty consuming enough dairy products to meet their calcium and vitamin D needs. Lactose intolerance occurs when there is a deficiency in the digestive enzyme lactase resulting in [...]
Since shortly after setting up our Aerogarden a few months ago, we’ve had an abundance of basil, parsley and mint. At the time, I had visions of snipping fresh herbs for our nightly dinners (cooked fresh to perfection by me, of course). Every dish would be adorned with the fragrance of green herbs and would [...]
One day last week, I looked up from my computer after having worked all morning and discovered I was famished. I’m not usually one to forget meals, but I was in the midst of an interesting project. You know how it is. Your head is filled with plans and details and THE BIG PICTURE and [...]
Back when Peter and I lived in Hamden, CT, we entered the stage of our lives I call “The Era of New Foods“. We finally had a kitchen that could fit more than 1.71 persons and enjoyed easy access to all the food shops southern Connecticut had to offer. One of our many weekly stops [...]
This post is a continuation of the Monday Munchies series, where I show everything I eat over the course of single day. And as if the title of this post wasn’t confusing enough, the photographed day was ACTUALLY a Monday. This past Monday, in fact. As I mentioned in this post, my sister Courtney and [...]
A few weeks ago, I had a client who entered my office in considerable distress. She’d had a number of stressful life changes in the last month and hadn’t remembered to eat what she considered a “proper meal” in days. As she described how her regular salads had fallen by the wayside and how she [...]
Welcome to March! Can you believe it’s March 1st already? With each passing year, month, day, hour, minute, I feel as though time is passing with the speed of Peter moving toward a sale on kitchen appliances. Before long it will be time to plant our garden, the first we’ve ever had. Bring on the [...]
As I mentioned in this post, I’ve lately made an effort to prepare meals for special diets. I feel I should be more familiar with preparing and tasting gluten-free, dairy-free, low carb, etc. dishes, being a dietitian and all. The last thing I want is for an exchange like this happen: Client: You say eating [...]
This post is a continuation of the Monday Munchies series, where I show everything I eat over the course of single day – in this case, last Saturday. My eating schedule on this day was quite unusual. Peter returned from a conference last Friday around midnight, and I attempted to stay up until then (I [...]
Shortly after I mentioned in my last post that I would get the recipe for amaranth granola from my sister Courtney, I heard my email program announce the arrival of a new message. “Email!” it cried in Homestar Runner‘s voice (a relic of Peter’s and my college years when Homestar Runner was at its peak [...]
G’day, readers! As predicted in my last post, I had a lovely weekend with my dad and sister in beautiful, bright, bonny Colorado. Yes, Colorado is a series of adjectives starting with the letter “B”. I won’t go into detail about the trip (check out this post for five reasons why I love Colorado), but [...]
