Fit Fare

I’ve been given a strict order to take my lunches to work this week.  Seems my “lunch budget” has gotten somewhat out of control.  And I know it’s better for me to bring something from home; everything available to me around the office is either fast food, or the kind of restaurant where it’s hard […]

For years we heard the mantra: eat more fish. Get those Omega-3’s. Fish is healthy. Unfortunately, now the tides have turned (apologies for the bad pun). Now we hear that we shouldn’t eat fish more than twice a week, or once a week, or three times a week. The mercury levels could cause us harm. […]

It’s hard to believe that it was way back in 1989 when the American Gladiators show first hit television screens, but it was. Given their massive physique, the gladiators need some pretty powerful diets to keep up with the demands of the competition, and they eat as much protein in one day as we […]

I looove veggie burgers. Not really the faux meat ones made with soy, but rather the ones that taste like what they are, veggies and grains. Well, at long last, thanks to the inspirational Chicago Diner recipe from The Non-Dairy Queen, I made my first attempt at homemade veggie burgers. Though totally […]

The night before a race, it’s nice to get together with your friends, other participants as well as family, significant others and other cheerleaders. While many races offer a pre-race pasta party or something along those lines, I’m usually completely afraid of those, with visions of starving athletes and troughs of Chef Boyardee-esque spaghetti. As […]

I confess … I was never really a fan of cheese, so from that perspective, the dairy-free diet has been fairly easy for me. However, I do adore pizza. Not willing to give up my first love, I began making my own pizza crust from scratch many years ago (since many store-bought crusts […]

By Ralph Villers
With help from Patti Villers

We tolerated a Nor’easter last week, so we are thinking about a summer salad. Further, we have been looking for another use for barley. Of course, just about everybody has probably had barley in a soup, as did we last week. However, we are intrigued about other uses of […]

When my fiance was diagnosed with diabetes in 2005, we thought his days of eating rice and pasta were over. He has very little trouble with pizza, and can usually split a dessert with me when we go out to eat, but foods like risotto, penne puttenesca, and lasagna were largely off the table. Luckily […]

(This post has also been featured on Kids Cuisine.)
These days, with a fast food joint located down practically every street, it’s hard to convince kids sometimes that life exists beyond McDonald’s chicken nuggets. Not only that, but that homemade chicken nuggets were, gasp!, actually better! How could they be better when they don’t come as […]

The other night I prepared some stuffed green peppers for dinner.  The two lone peppers looked so compact in the baking dish that I was certain we would both walk away hungry.  To my pleasant surprise, each pepper revealed a fantastic full meal, enough to satisfy even after a good bout of exercise. 
My bell pepper […]