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I share balanced and practical ways to eat well and maximize your health and wellbeing.
Easy French Brown-Butter Tart
For bakers and home cooks who bake often, making tarts is easy enough. However, not everyone, including me, appreciates the specific measuring and techniques required for good tart dough. Now, after discovering this easy brown-butter tart, I’m dreaming of future tarts.
Swiss Chard Hazelnut Dessert Tart |Tarte Sucrée Aux Blettes et Noisettes
Swiss Chard Hazelnut Dessert Tart Really. It’s not so bizarre to use vegetables in dessert. Consider zucchini bread and carrot cake. Other popular recipes include red velvet beet cake, sweet potato pudding and avocado chocolate mousse....
Roasted Cauliflower Steaks with Sumac
Roasted Cauliflower Steaks with Sumac Pan-seared cauliflower steaks work great, yet often require finishing in the oven. This cauliflower steak with sumac option shortcuts the pan-searing for a longer, but less fussy, roast in the oven. While these...
Boursin and Yogurt Artichoke Gratin
Boursin and Yogurt Artichoke Gratin French and American gratins, pronounced “Grawh-tAHn”, range from dense, cheesy and cream-laden to light dishes made simply with a béchamel sauce.This artichoke gratin, satisfyingly filling yet not overly cheesy works well as a dip...
Parsnip Puree Soup and Crisps
Parsnip Puree Soup with Crisps You’re so sweet, you’re so fine, but a sugar bomb in wintertime. Okay, the song doesn’t go this way but, in winter, cold converts parsnip starches to sugar at high levels and if the parsnips freeze before harvest, they become...
Purse Crêpes (Aumônières de Crêpes)
Purse Crêpes Purse Crêpes (sometimes called a Beggar's purse) are an ironic description for a crêpe-based dish given that these elegant, plump flavor packages allow for an extra cha-ching to that restaurant bill. For the home cooks, this food bling bling...
Crepes and Crêpes Célestines | Herbed Crepes
Crêpes are full of contradictions. They are fancy foods, yet street foods. They are rich and decadent but can be simple and nutrient dense. They are quick or they can be turned into fancy purses as in aumônières de crêpes or other culinary art tricks....
Almond and Hazelnut Dukkah
Almond and Hazelnut Dukkah Dukkah, a savory spice and nut mix, has Arabic roots and worldly applications. Traditional key ingredients are nuts, coriander, cumin seed, salt and sesame seeds, but it can also include other seeds such as fennel and...
Michele Redmond
French-trained Chef, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist & Food Enjoyment Activist