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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 [...]
As you read this, I am flying back to the wilds of Illinois after a lovely long weekend in Colorado. As least, I assume it was lovely. I’m writing this post a week ahead of time, since Colorado is the land of no-Internet. I made this dish a few days before I left for Colorado [...]
This post is adapted from my guest post on Stone Soup, the blog of Food and Nutrition Magazine, which is a publication of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Chocolate. Just the word conjures up the taste of rich hot cocoa and the snap of a pure chocolate bar. For some, it is tied to [...]
This past weekend, thanks to a tip from my best bud Amy (hi!), Peter and I drove to Peoria, IL to watch Jeff Dunham perform at the Peoria Civic Center. We’re fans of his ventriloquist comedy routines on YouTube, so we couldn’t pass it up. I’m not sure what I expected when I bought the [...]
Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Snake begins Sunday, February 10th. I’m not ashamed to admit that, for me, Chinese New Year often revolves around food. This year was no different. Up until now, Peter and I always went to our favorite restaurant for Chinese New Year, where our friend Eric would cook [...]
Imagine you’re hosting a dinner party. The lights are soft, the conversation bright, the food scrumptious. You’ve just finished a rich veggie lasagna and are eagerly looking forward to dessert: a vegan spiced pumpkin ice cream, fresh from the ice cream maker a few short hours ago. Having tasted it upon completion, you already know [...]
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, yesterday (Sunday), i.e. the first day I remembered to do this in weeks. As I mentioned before, ever since I decreased my posts from six days a week to [...]
Last week, I described my five most influential cookbooks. I had such a great response to the list – thanks to everyone who commented and wrote with their favorite cookbooks! I’ll be putting some of those on my next Christmas list. At the time, I asked Peter to name his five most influential cookbooks. Our [...]
Whenever I have open hours at Strawberry Fields, I try to bring in something healthy for customers to nibble while they ask me nutrition questions. Last time, I brought a homemade salsa with black beans, corn and cilantro to eat with tortilla chips. I’m happy to say it was a hit! However, I’m also embarrassed [...]
This post is adapted from my guest post on Stone Soup, the blog of Food and Nutrition Magazine, which is a publication of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. I often challenge myself to use an ingredient in a new and unexpected way. The results are usually delicious, such as pumpkin mac ‘n’ cheese or [...]
It’s been a madhouse in the THIH household over the past few days. Talking with clients, meals plans, catching up on article writing, going to an awesome EIDA meeting – it’s all been happening. At once. I look forward to a little relaxation (and answering customer questions!) at Strawberry Fields this weekend. The idea to [...]
I’ve been thinking lately about some of the little things that make life sweeter. Like a perfect husband-made chocolate that tastes like a Reese’s peanut butter cup, only 10 banillion times better. Or a puppa who will let you ambush her, then come running to greet you if you’re out of her sight for five [...]
Happy MLK Jr. day, everyone! Before I share this month’s Recipe Redux, I have an important picture to show you: Remember when Peter and I made our own inexpensive standing desks from Ikea furniture? I made sure our home office versions were all white (i.e. pleasing to the eye). For Peter’s uni office, he decided [...]
I promised you in my last post that I would feature the bed we put together on another day. Well, that day is today! Sleep is so important for staying healthy and feeling your best that it’s worthwhile to invest in a comfortable bed. OR, you could be married to Peter, who decides he wants [...]
