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Quick Bean Salad – Healthy Cooking Thursday

September 9, 2010

You’ve probably heard it already; legumes are awesome.  Aside from being a lean protein choice, beans have oodles of fiber, potassium, iron, calcium, folate, and magnesium (as my friend Robyn pointed out in her recent blog about beans, which includes links to many other delicious legume recipes from our healthy weight loss program in the Green Mountains). Beyond the health [...]

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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 [...]

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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 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 [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Chipotle “Pickles”

July 22, 2010

One of my favorite flavors is chipotle.  It’s so warm and sweet and smokey, it’s in a class of its own.  I find that most folks who don’t enjoy spicy-hot food still usually enjoy chipotle.  It matches well with foods that are cooling, which is why cucumbers and chipotle turn out to be pretty good [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Watermelon Smoothie

July 8, 2010

Holy crow, it’s been hot in Vermont since the Fourth of July.  A rare stretch of 90 degree days has inspired me to create meals and snacks that don’t involve indoor cooking.  This quick and healthy recipe is courtesy of the leftover watermelon from a Independence Day picnic we had at our house.  It was beautifully ripe and sweet, [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Patriotic Panini

July 1, 2010

A common question asked by the busy modern women who come to Green Mountain at Fox Run is how to prepare quick, healthy, and satisfying lunches when life far too often gets in the way of quality time in the kitchen.  I have a few fast favorites in the arsenal, one of which is panini [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Chipotle Lime Hummus

June 17, 2010

One snack we serve at Green Mountain at Fox Run is vegetable crudite with hummus.  Making hummus every single week for this snack can cause a chef to get a little, shall we say, creative with flavors.  That is exactly what happened last Tuesday, in conjunction with a lemon allergy in the house.  But limes were fine, so [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Strawberry-Rhubarb Love

June 3, 2010

You might be realizing right about now that I love to write about seasonal produce.  Part of that is due to me being a chef with a love for the freshest ingredients possible, but part of it is that in my neck of the woods, it’s tough to get good out-of-season produce in the grocery store.  This [...]

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