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Healthy Recipes

Tomato and Sweet Corn Salad – Healthy Cooking Thursday

September 2, 2010

Last weekend, I returned to my home state of New Jersey to visit family and friends I hadn’t seen in a while. It’s always a bit of a culture shock to go back; gigantic buildings spring up like weeds in a garden, the roads are always faster and more congested than I remember, and everywhere I go people are in a [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Roasted Garlic Dressing

August 26, 2010

Few dishes are as divinely fragrant to prepare (and devilishly simple) as roasted garlic.  Whenever I make this healthy recipe at our women’s weight loss program, I invariably am asked, ”What were you making that smells so amazing?” from the ladies who were working out in the room above our kitchen.
The resulting dressing is a great addition to many [...]

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It Happened This Week: Green Tea, Eating Your Sunscreen & Dieting Daughters

August 20, 2010

Have you been drinking green tea to speed weight loss?  If so, read what the LA Times has to say about the claims.
Summer may be coming to a close but there’s still plenty of sun in our future.  And that means, of course, that we still need to watch out for those damaging rays.  The [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Chicken Hints

August 19, 2010

One of the most frequent questions I field here at our healthy weight loss program is, “Why is your chicken so moist and delicious and when I cook chicken, it, well, isn’t?”
It is a loaded question, really.  There are several factors that might contribute to this issue.

If you start with a quality ingredient, your end result [...]

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Cooking with Beans

August 18, 2010

Last night I spent some time shelling the beans I grew this year.  When I grow my own food, I am MUCH more motivated to make sure I eat it right away.  Granted dried beans can last a long time, but there’s no way I’m putting these beauties in the back of the pantry to be [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Eggplant Parmesan

August 12, 2010

Here at our women’s weight loss program tucked in the Green Mountains of Vermont, there are quite a few fan favorites among our healthy recipes for which Chef Jon and I are constantly getting recipe requests.  This eggplant entree is always among them.  Eggplant parm is one of those awesome meals that features a great vegetable, but seems so decadent, thanks [...]

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Healthy Snack Ideas

August 11, 2010

Sometimes participants of our healthy weight loss program  at Green Mountain are surprised by the fact that we have snacks available frequently.  Snacking can be a strategy that helps us manage between-meal hunger and makes dealing with main meals a little easier.  I always get requests for a list of healthy snack ideas, so I thought [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Cheese, Glorious Cheese

August 5, 2010

“The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese!”  So exclaims William H. Macy, playing a Vermont senator in the film “Thank You For Smoking”, in defense against claims that our divine cheddar could possibly be dangerous to your health.  His fictional angry outburst was due to the fact that in reality, cheese is a way of life [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Zucchini and Eggs

July 29, 2010

Post number two in our Zucchini-palooza series!  (Check out Robyn’s healthy Zucchini Fries recipe from yesterday.)
Vermont is an interesting place to garden.  The tomato and potato blights wreak havoc (sometimes), slugs and bugs are hungry and prolific, and the cabbage worms make cruciferous veggies impossible really difficult to bring to harvest.  (If anyone has a [...]

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What to do with all this zucchini…

July 28, 2010

It’s that time of year when I begin picking dinner from my back yard.  There is nothing more satisfying than heading into the house, arms loaded with produce I’ve grown.  It’s even cooler to cook and eat it that same day.  I love it.  We are at the point in VT where everyone is attempting to [...]

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