A Summery Shrimp Stir-Fry
Chinese cooking calls for thoughtfully combining the artistic and the practical. This dish balances sweet, tart, earthy and bright seafood flavors in foods that are crisp, tender, chewy and juicy with just enough salt to enhance them all.
Liven Up Seafood with a Delicious Brazilian Sauce
Fish has a large role in any healthy diet, and seeking out bold new ways to prepare it is a great way to keep this simple, versatile food interesting. This week's recipe provides a fresh way to spice up an old favorite.
A Classic Pairing: Baked Fish with Herbs
The great pairing of fish with herbs provides a tasty and nutritious meal that is loaded with flavor and health benefits, and boasts a long history.
Treat Mom to a Healthful Mother's Day Brunch
Treating Mom to a special home-cooked breakfast is a great opportunity to create family teamwork. These oatmeal pancakes are not only delicious but healthy, too, and their preparation is no more time-consuming than more standard fare.
Celebrate the Foods of Mexico
Here in the States, Cinco de Mayo has become a day to celebrate Latino culture. And in America, culture, of course, means food. Learn about a good way to start a celebration of Cinco de Mayo and the cuisine of Mexico.
A Healthy, Low-Calorie Dessert...with Chocolate!
For food-lovers in general (and chocoholics in particular), this dish is a dream come true: an elegant, healthy dessert that includes chocolate. Although deceivingly rich, these meringue tartlets are actually low-calorie and low-guilt.
Ham How-To: Essentials for Easy, Elegant Easter Ham
Along with pastel-colored eggs and baskets of goodies, Easter in America has always meant ham. But aside from upholding tradition, there are other reasons for making ham the centerpiece of your holiday table.
Brussels Sprouts with Tuscan Flavor
Tuscan cooks make everything green taste great, including Brussels sprouts. The Tuscan approach is a simple one and usually involves olive oil.
An Easter Egg Story
Easter usually falls around my birthday, and so Easter eggs have often been part of my birthday celebrations. (Article features recipe for Egg Salad with White Beans).
Cooking for the Person With Diabetes
The way you cook for a person with diabetes is the way you should cook for the whole family. By cutting down the fat, sugar, and sodium in recipes, you lower everyone's risk for diabetes and other chronic diseases.
Saint Patrick's Day Greens
It can be fun to get into the spirit of St. Patrick's Day. Some, of course, go the whole route with dyed green food, from beer to bagels, but you don't need to resort to dyes to find delicious, healthy green foods.
Tip Your Hat to the Cabbage
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." And in recent years, the cooks in Ireland have begun to agree with him. Cooking has enjoyed a major renaissance in Ireland and fine dining now is the rule, rather than the exception.
A St. Patrick's Day Salad
If you think food that celebrates St. Patrick's Day means corned beef and cabbage with boiled potatoes, it's time to update your thinking about Irish cooking.
