On Choosing Real Food First
{asparagus pea soup} Today, the Real Food First program is open for registration. Sign up before midnight PST, April 7th, and have a friend join you for free! Read below for full details on how I learned to choose real food first and how you can learn to, too. I don’t like dieting and I […]
Stovetop Dulse Popcorn
Tuesday night I was in Granada, Spain with my dad and his girlfriend, drinking champagne and eating popcorn at Nito’s bar. Today I’m back in Zurich, back to work, back to recipe testing, and back to laundry…with dulse popcorn in hand, but no champagne to go with it. I figured I had to bring some […]
Minty Asparagus Salad
Along with my beloved yellow daffodils, there is one more thing that just screams “Spring!” to me. Can you guess? Probably. Considering the title and the pictures that are plastered all over. But I’ll tell you anyways… Asparagus! Asparagus has about a one-month time span in this neck of the woods, so when it comes, I […]
Healthy Spring Must-Haves
Things are getting spring-y around here and I’m not complaining. And that’s not a figure of speech: I literally stopped complaining…probably because most of my complaining had to do with being cold. It’s a crazy thing what a little sunshine can do to lift the mood of the whole city, and inspire me to be […]
Slow Cooker German Pork
Growing up, many family birthday celebrations were at Grandma’s house (the German one I told you about with a stomach of steel). She had two dishes that she usually made: pork with sauerkraut or beef sauerbraten with potato pancakes. I never thought much about dinner though; I just knew there was going to be a […]
Benefits of Sauerkraut
{image via} My Grandma has a stomach of steel and I’m convinced it’s because she grew up with German parents, eating a lot of sauerkraut and other fermented foods (and probably a lot less processed foods). Starting at a young age, she was building good gut bacteria to prepare it for anything that came its […]