Wow Your Guests with this Delicious, Elegant Superfood–Pesto Zoodles!

Facts about this recipe: I made this recipe for a cooking and plating demo. Not a strand of zoodle was left on a plate. Pesto is kind of a superfood, and this version in particular. Healthy fats in walnuts and olive oil, check. Nutrient, vitamin, and mineral rich spinach, check.…

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Cauliflower Mash is a Holiday Smash

“Don’t tell them it’s cauliflower,” a guest at our Thanksgiving dinner advised. “They’ll never know they’re not mashed potatoes!” Why cauliflower instead of potatoes? Cauliflower has a lower glycemic index (so it impacts blood sugar less), is lower in carbs at 5 grams versus the potato’s whopping 67 grams per…

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  • Tasty Words About Food

    [Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

    M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating