I abhor wasting food and I was getting tired of cluttering up the freezer with 1/2 jars of pasta sauce just because I was afraid I wouldn’t use it before it went bad. So I set up a challenge for myself. If I opened a jar of something I had to use it up within a week. The ideas below (I’m not calling them recipes because you barely need to measure a thing) show you how I used up an entire family-sized jar of pasta sauce in five days – serving it up for both lunch and dinner.
7 Tips for Saving Overly Salty Food
Did the top of your salt shaker fall off and dump a load of salt into the fabulous dinner you were making for your dinner party? Did you misjudge how much salt was needed for that huge bag of spinach that’s now wilted down to 1 cup in your pan? Did a favorite blogger’s recipe steer you wrong? No matter how things went wrong, there’s no need to dump your recipe into the garbage. It’s quite easy to fix an overly salted dish.
Free Book: Help! My Diet’s Not Working
Are you frustrated with trying to figure out why your diet is failing? Would you like to know how to make your diet more successful?
Browned Butter Asparagus
I had all this lovely browned butter which I’d made a few days ago so I thought I’d use it to saute up some asparagus. That turned out to be a good decision 🙂
Browned Butter Couscous With a Twist
Warning – this isn’t a gluten-free, Paleo, vegan, or low-carb recipe. It is a healthy recipe and a delicious way to cut down on gluten and carbs, but it’s not by any stretch of the imagination actually gluten-free or low-carb.
Using Your Scraps – Radish Greens
One of my favorite things about radishes are the greens. I wish I could buy the greens by the bagful as I actually like them better than the radishes themselves. And I LOVE radishes!
Raw Onion Bread with Endless Variations
While looking for a low carb bread I first came across a low carb raw onion bread at Mother’s Market in Huntington Beach, California. It was delicious and EXPENSIVE. So the quest began to find a way to make it.
15 Three Ingredient Meals with a Healthy Spin
Below is an excerpt from my book, 14 Days ~ 14 Pounds: Low Carb Daily Plan with 140 Quick & Easy Recipes (Low Carb Daily Plan – High Protein: Menus with Recipes). You’ll notice that some items don’t conform to traditional low-carb choices, in the book I share the low-carb hacks for those.
7 Easy Summer Recipes For When It’s Too Hot to Cook
If the thought of spending time in the kitchen making a hot meal on a hot night makes you want to dial for pizza delivery then check out these seven easy summer”recipes” for when it’s too hot too cook. I’ve put recipes in quotes because none of these recipes actually require a measuring device and they’re all endlessly variable. So here goes ..
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Devilled Egg Salad
Okay, this is one of those recipes where I didn’t bother to get out the measuring devices. True confession, I was actually trying to make devilled eggs and got carried away with the yogurt. So here’s how you can whip up an easy salad for a hot summer night.