Balsamic Glazed Roasted Beet Salad – Gorgeous, Healthy, Delicious

Balsamic Glazed Roasted Beet Salad – Gorgeous, Healthy, Delicious
Balsamic Glazed Roasted Beet Salad
With Goat Cheese, Walnuts and Fresh Mint

I’ve always enjoyed beets. But this summer more than ever. The result of changing my method for roasting them. To highlight their naturally sweet and earthy flavor, I marinate and roast them in a savory balsamic vinegar marinade. This is also the key for the most Continue reading Balsamic Glazed Roasted Beet Salad – Gorgeous, Healthy, Delicious

Cookbook Giveaway for a Healthier 2016!

Giveaway for a Healthier 2016!I Won . . .Now You, Too, Can Win A Cookbook Giveaway!

I wrote a comment for a cookbook giveaway on Margaret Roach’s entertaining and informative blog, A way to Garden. A month later an email from Margaret greeted me with the subject line, “You won Alana Chernila’s cookbook and other goodies.”  Then, in early Continue reading Cookbook Giveaway for a Healthier 2016!

Shiitake Gravy — Extraordinarily Great

Shiitake Gravy — Extraordinarily Great GravyShiitake Gravy — Vegetarian & Gluten-Free or Not

Richly flavored and deeply colored, Shiitake Gravy puts the crowning touch on Thanksgiving Dinner. For a vegetarian feast, prepare the gravy according to the recipe. Continue reading Shiitake Gravy — Extraordinarily Great

Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah!

Sugar Plums (c) jfhaugen

From My Kitchen to Yours

Whoa, what a most wonderful time of year! Colorful lights brighten our long winter nights and Christmas songs play Continue reading Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah!

The Perfect Diet

As a kid, my perfect diet could easily have been ice cream and frosted flakes and peanut butter.Girl eating ice cream http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamglen/3172916309/ As a teenager, it would have been salads (iceberg lettuce with either French or Thousand Island dressing), Chinese food and my mother’s shrimp cocktail. For awhile as a pastry chef who imbibed sweets all day long, it was Chinese Chicken Salad, cheeses from around the world and espresso.
Later on in life, my perfect diets had names such as raw food, macrobiotic and ovo-lacto vegetarian. Continue reading The Perfect Diet