Fit Fare

My husband and I bought a new house over a year and a half ago, and it was only last weekend that we got around to having a housewarming party. Why did it take so long? Well, making a home is about much more than occupying a house. We still haven’t done […]

It’s summertime, which means weddings, garden parties, and lots of opportunities for drinking. Research has shown that moderate alcohol consumption can be part of a healthy diet and can even have benefits to the heart and circulatory system, and it may also protect against gallstones and type 2 diabetes. Of course, limiting quantities […]

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Tomatillos are the cutest vegetables in the world. They look like little green tomatoes, but they come ensconced in a little papery lantern, which is fun to peel off. They haven’t been available all that long outside Mexico and Texas, but recent waves […]

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For the record, I don’t know much about gardening. I’ve always enjoyed the rewards reaped from gardening, and I respect and admire those who do it, but it’s never been my thing. Growing up, I left it to my transplanted farm boy father, and now, I mostly leave it […]

When I got my first eight-to-five job a few years back, I found myself in a culture where people go out to lunch a lot. This was fun for a while, but soon took its toll both financially and in terms of pants tightness. In an effort to counter that, I drastically reduced […]

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I once knew a woman who loved to visit aquariums. It wasn’t out of some interest in oceanography or marine biology; rather, she would stroll through Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium and imagine how the fish on display would taste. I thought that was a little […]

Let’s get one thing straight from the beginning. I am not too stuck up to eat dessert. Once a week or so, I throw my calorie-, fat-, protein-, and nutrient-counting tools out the window and just eat what I want. Maybe I’ll live to be 95 instead of 100, but 95 is […]

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Never mind that it’s available year-round, imported from Mexico or Peru. Never mind that it has a bad reputation in children’s poetry (”I hate spagaragus, and spagaragus hates me.”) Never mind that it makes your pee smell weird. Springtime is asparagus season, time […]

This recipe is part of FitFare’s Week of Soup.

When the Europeans first happened upon a squash upon arriving in the Americas, they thought it was a melon. When I first happened upon a squash on my plate, I thought it was gross. As it turns out, we were all wrong.
Acorn squash, categorized as […]

Indian food is incredible stuff. In the old days, before I was paying much attention to my health, I used to eat at my favorite local Indian joint every Friday. Sadly, my habit didn’t hold up very well to a nutritional analysis; chicken in creamy tomato sauce, naan dripping with ghee, piles of curried garbanzo […]