The Live Green Smoothie Diet

Only 1 Weight Watchers point, it’s filling, beautiful and filled with flavor! And bet you never considered a mango-broccoli combination. For variety, red pepper instead of (or in addition to) tomato would be a great combo! Low-Fat, High-Protein Mango-Broccoli Salad… Great For Weight Watchers!

Yummy Kale Chips… and No MSG! Everybody who tries them seems to rave about Kale Chips…and for good reason. Their texture crackles, crunches and delicious disintegrates in one’s mouth, and the ruffled edges of curly kale so nicely capture whatever flavorings have been added. Thing is, many of the favorite recipes out there use raw [...]

There are no pineapples in this dressing — good news for anyone like myself whose tongue is sensitive to the acidity of foods like pineapple! Instead, apples and cold-pressed coconut oil combine to create a mild, sweetly-savory dressing that just a “blush” of garlic. Yep, garlic! Goes great with this flavor combo. I used this [...]

Oh Lordy, where has this simple recipe been all my life? Warming, comforting, mellow, meaty, juicy, enlivening, nose-runningly spicy without an uncomfortable “burn”… it was just what I needed on this day where the Jersey mountain temps are already, in mid-afternoon, beginning to make their trek down to freezing. Using “macaroni noodles” cut from fresh, [...]

This evening I made a batch of my beloved Savoy Cabbage-Tomato-Almond Butter Chopped Salad and decided to make a kissing cousin with Kale. And between the two of them, I gorged my fill, with nothing but a fork as a side dish. No chips, no Ezekiel bread, just the two salads, a big bowl of [...]

Heavens to Betsy, did I enjoy this! For those of my readers who, like me, find salvation in savory, meaty-tasting raw/living food dishes, add this one to your list! Like this other meaty, super-satisfying mushroom recipe, which was life-changing for me and for a few others who were greatly helped by its steak-like flavor, this [...]

Such a pretty salad… like confetti! And another good template recipe to know because there are so many ways you can play with it. The heart of this one is fresh cucumbers (I generally use the long, thin “British” cukes) with a combination of sweet red, orange, and or yellow peppers. The dressing is made [...]

Super-quick, super-flavorful, and made with Utterly Pedestrian ingredients so easy to keep on hand! Enjoy without the meatballs — super-delish on its own, over “noodles” or “spaghetti” made from fresh, raw baby zucchini — or make a side of meatballs for a heartier repast! And even if you make the whole Spaghetti & Meatball affair… [...]

I just love fresh, jumbo Medjool dates. Not when ground up and mixed into nut balls or energy bars… blech. In fact, I loathe those sorts of things, where the almost-juicy quality of the dates is destroyed by over-processing. No, dates are best enjoyed whole, where their lovely succulence can be enjoyed full-on. I’ve said [...]

When you can make something quick and easy like this, forget oatmeal and any of the other hot cereals out there. This is the kind of dish that kids will go crazy over… and I mean crazy-crazy. It tastes like warm vanilla cake batter. Forget kids… how many adults do you know who still love [...]