Cool, creamy, and zinging with fresh tomato flavor, this gazpacho is one of the things I look forward to making every year when summer rolls around. Locally grown, in season tomatoes are a thousand times better than what passes for tomatoes in our stores in the wintertime. Those may look like tomatoes, but my taste buds aren't fooled. I used to make a chunky gazpacho that took me hours to make, peeling the tomatoes and dicing all of the vegetables by hand. It improved my knif

These biscuits have been on my family's Thanksgiving and Christmas table for the past ten years. A combination of fats and a very specific rolling technique makes them puff up and separate into flaky layers when they bake. They are equally welcome for dinner or brunch and delicious served with butter alone or with honey or jam. I will be the first to say that these biscuits aren't typical of recipes that I post on this blog. They are made with refined white flour, which is f

Steamed clams with chorizo sounds like a fancy restaurant dish, especially in the coastal New Jersey restaurants near me, but they are actually really easy to make at home. The smoked Spanish sausage in this recipe elevates it to a gourmet level - but they will still taste amazing without it. The garlic, on the other hand, is not optional. Besides how easy they are, and how they can put me in a summer mood even when I make them at home in the dark days of winter, one of the s

Looking for an easy way to incorporate more SMASH fish into your diet? Look no more! Want to know what the heck are SMASH fish? Read on! Sardines are one 'S' in a group of fish that also includes mackerel, anchovies, salmon and herring. Because they are low on the food chain, SMASH fish are low in mercury and other toxins. They are also a great source of protein, vitamin D, phosphorus, selenium, calcium, and omega-3 fatty acids, also known as fish oil. Fish Oil Primer The top

I developed the recipe for these crackers because crackers were something I really missed when I adopted low carb eating many years ago. It’s easy enough to eat cheese without the crackers, or to use fresh veggies to dip into guacamole, but there’s something about a cracker that completes the snack. Typical store-bought crackers, the Saltines and Triscuits that we grew up on, are made with wheat flour and have about 20-25g carbohydrates per ounce. For someone on a low-carb or

I’m committing nutrition heresy this week by posting about deviled eggs – high fat, high cholesterol snacks that even contain processed meat. You may be wondering, what is she thinking? One of the things that I learned in my nutrition consultant training is how much conventional wisdom about nutrition is outdated or just wrong. The more I studied and dug into the research, the more curious I got about how and why recommendations are made and what the science really says. More