Posts related to bright ideas
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10 August 2010 - Liquid sunshine: 7 days of green smoothies
I admit it: I’m hooked on green smoothies. But if you have to have a vice, hey. For me (and everyone’s different, which is pretty wonderful), green smoothies are the perfect start to a day. They taste like liquid sunshine, and make me feel strong and energized all morning. Here are a week’s worth of photos [...]
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03 August 2010 - By Popular Demand: Shredded Carrot & Beet Salad
This was one of the most popular dishes at Food As Medicine 2010– perhaps because it’s such a glorious eye-full? In her book The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, from whence this recipe cometh, Rebecca Katz says, “…I set out to create the most colorful salad I could, using purple beets, orange carrots, and fresh mint. If I’d [...]
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08 July 2010 - Beat the Heat: A Rainbow Salad
With temperatures over 100 degrees and code orange air alerts (“unhealthy for sensitive groups”) here in Washington, DC, who feels like cooking? Or for that matter, eating? My solution last evening: a rainbow salad. Everything organic, nearly everything purchased at our local farm market the evening before. Nothing much to it: two kinds of lettuce, [...]
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29 June 2010 - Summer Harvest
Summer’s harvest is rolling in! See the riches we plundered at the Farm Market on Saturday, including the first corn of the season (white), and little orange ‘Sundrop’ tomatoes, organic strawberries, black raspberries, and small plums (well, everything we purchased is organic), and mountains of greens (kale, chard, dandelion, arugula, baby spinach, Boston lettuce), herbs [...]
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13 May 2010 - A Real Find: Brazilian Collard Greens
Ooooh, I love the internet! Once home with my fresh collard greens from the farm market, I felt inclined to try something new. A google search turned up an appealing and speedy recipe for Brazilian collard greens– not the oxymoron you might think, for greens that are famous for slow, slow cookin’. The whole process [...]
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06 May 2010 - Cooking Basics: Prepping
If you are new to cooking I have one word for you, and if you are a veteran cook, let it be a reminder: prep. Do like chefs do, and prep ahead. Wash and chop veggies, rinse legumes, grate that ginger, measure spices into little cups, place olive oil and other ingredients close at hand– [...]
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29 April 2010 - Seasonal Delights: Roasted Asparagus
Nothing could be easier, more elegant, or more delicious than roasted asparagus in the springtime. So when I hosted a pot-luck dinner party celebrating a dear friend’s birthday recently, I chose that for my contribution. Don’t you agree that it’s preferable to have fun at a party rather than suffer from kitchen exhaustion? This beautiful [...]
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26 April 2010 - Meet our Faculty: Derek Neal
aka Mr. Smoothie. Derek wears a number of hats: Certified Holistic Health Counselor (CHHC); Case Manager & Intake Specialist for the Jericho Reentry Program, a post-prison project of the Episcopal Community Services of Maryland; Co-Coordinator of the Baltimore Nutrition Group; and a faculty member for Food As Medicine. For Food As Medicine, he gives one [...]
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26 October 2009 - Bright Ideas: Buckwheat for Breakfast
Are you in the market for a delicious, nutrient-packed breakfast suggestion? Here’s one: cream of buckwheat. The name comes from the Dutch word bockweit, which refers to both the way the seeds resemble those of beech trees and the way the flour resembles wheat flour. But it’s neither cereal grain nor wheat; it’s a fruit [...]
