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Disclosure:  This post is based on my experience with the Almond Board of California’s sponsored trip in September 2016.  I  was not required to write a blog post, did not receive [...]

I’ll be honest with you.  This month’s Recipe Redux challenge of cooking up a “plant protein power bowl” gave me a touch of anxiety.  How many times have you gone to your [...]

Were you that popular kid in junior high and high school with an active social life, always going to parties on the weekends?  I definitely, was not!  What did I do on the weekends at home when I [...]

Carbs are a constant topic of nutrition conversation.  No matter what education topic I’m presenting on or discussing with a group, carbs always come up.  If I had a dollar for every time [...]

August’s Recipe Redux vacation challenge came at the perfect time since I looked at the theme a week before I was going on vacation! I was to think of a vacation memory and create a healthy [...]

This month’s Recipe Redux challenged use to make a dish displaying creative cuts for fruits or veggies.   Originally I wanted to do something cool and trendy like spiralized veggies such as [...]

Recently, my most talented baker friend asked me about coconut sugar.  What’s the deal? Is it worth all of the hype? Coconut sugar isn’t anything new, but it sure is trendy, with a nice big [...]

Who says hummus has to be made from chickpeas??  You can only create as many flavors as your imagination can come up with!  I needed orange food to serve during a Denver Broncos viewing soiree, [...]

I am currently in mourning.  My favorite neighborhood Latin happy hour joint recently closed, without any notice.  My husband and I were there on a sunday and when we came back 2 days later, [...]

Did you know that 2016 is the International Year of the Pulse according to the United Nations?  What is a pulse you ask?  They are beans, peas, chickpeas and lentils and they are some of the [...]