How To Have A Healthy Halloween
In our house, we start on Halloween early. It’s my pro-active strategy to emphasize the fun and still keep all those sugary treats at bay. We make pumpkins out of tangerines and decorate bananas to look like witches. We make healthy desserts – pumpkin bread and pumpkin pancakes. My daughter is old enough to assume […]
Great Pumpkin! (Hold the Pie)
Halloween is coming and there are pumpkins everywhere. This large one weighed in at more than 1,800 pounds! Did you know that most of the pumpkins grown in the U.S. are used for Jack o’ Lanterns? That’s a shame because this vibrant fruit (Yes! fruit) is a nutritional treasure-trove, too good to be relegated to […]
Catching The Kale Craze
Someone sent me an article from the New York Times about what the French think of kale. Not much. Mention of it usually warrants “the classic Parisian shrug,” the Times reported. But thanks to the efforts of an American woman who moved from New York to Paris when her husband was transferred there, kale is […]
