We've got oodles of zoodle recipes for you to check out! Read on to discover them all. Zucchini noodles, or “Zoodles”, are a fun and easy way to add unique textures and shapes to a wide variety of meals. As a stand-in for traditional carb-and-gluten laden noodles, the zoodle offers a garden-fresh, low-calorie alternative that makes the perfect palette for flavorful sauces. Best of all they’re … [Read more...]
Simple, Fast & Delicious Healthy Cooking
Julia Child said it best:
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.
In a world filled with fast food and 24-hour delivery, it can seem difficult to eat a healthy diet. And if you’re busy (who isn’t?), the idea of healthy cooking may seem out of reach.
But the truth is, with a little planning, a few easy-to-master cooking techniques, and a handful of tools, you can create delicious, healthy meals in under 30 minutes that taste as good as they are good-for-you!
Cooking at Home: Creating The Healthiest Habit
Unfortunately, eating the typical Western diet can be seriously detrimental to your health. A steady diet filled with unhealthy fats, refined carbs and processed sugars drives up inflammation levels, creates blood sugar imbalances and insulin resistance, and promotes oxidation (or “rusting”) of the body.
The result: An increased risk of nearly EVERY chronic disease including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s and more.
While an occasional slice of pizza or other “junk” food isn’t so bad, the problem is that it’s all too easy for an occasional indulgence to turn into an unhealthy regular habit. And these assaults add up fast on your waistline… and in your health.
Healthy Cooking: Learn As You Go
The good news is that healthy cooking is easy and you can learn as you go.
We’ve designed each and every healthy recipe with the novice chef in mind. Don’t know how to properly sear a steak? That’s ok! Just follow the easy step-by-step instructions on the recipe and you’ll get the technique. You can also check out our healthy cooking terms encyclopedia to learn more about the buzzwords of healthy cooking including poach, blanch, saute, mince, chop, macerate and more!
Your Starting Point: Intelligent Ingredients
The first step in healthy cooking is discerning which ingredients are intelligent ingredients.
Unfortunately, many so-called healthy foods like yogurt, frozen “low-fat” meals, or granola bars, are not just unhealthy, they are harmful to your long term health. You’ll learn all about the healthy foods to choose in your cooking as well as the name brand packaged foods to select in our healthy packaged foods directory. We’ve also created a guide for picking the healthiest packaged foods and our criteria for brands that you’ll want to check out.
Healthy Cooking = a Healthy Life
Numerous studies have shown that people who are conscious of their diets and cook at home are healthier and fitter than those who do not. They also feel better, look better, and live longer, healthier and more productive lives.
But eating most of your meals at home doesn’t have to mean slaving over the stove or buying a boatload of expensive ingredients.We’ll show you how to create quick and delicious recipes using the healthiest foods on the planet, while keeping your food budget in check and your time in the kitchen to a minimum.
We’ll also show you how to maximize the nutrition in every meal – like how to boost antioxidants in your cooking – while also reducing cooking-related risks like heating oils beyond their flash points, and the way you can ensure you’re grilling the healthy way.
The 10 Best Kitchen Appliances for Healthy Cooking
Sometimes it’s not the outside temptations that stop us from whipping up a healthy home-cooked meal. We scroll through Pinterest or flip through that new cookbook, eager to try something new. We’ve got our grocery list checked off and hungry mouths to feed, but we soon realize the effort it takes to prep, cook, and clean up meal after meal. And of course, we also need the right tools to bring … [Read more...]
Flavor Your Meals With These Low-Carb Paleo Sauces
If you’ve been eating a Paleo diet for some time, you may find that your usual meal rotations of meat and vegetables can become… well, a little boring. But there’s a fast and easy way to dress up all of your favorite meals without much extra effort: Paleo Sauces. As you probably know, most store-bought sauces and dressings should be avoided. These usually contain corn syrup or other hidden … [Read more...]
7 Tips to Pan Fry (The Healthy Way!)
If you’ve gone “Paleo” or if you follow a gluten-and grain-free diet, you have probably given up your favorite crisp, golden-fried foods. You probably believe that fried foods are off limits on a healthy diet. And for the most part, that's true... It is a wise choice to avoid most fried foods, especially commercially-fried foods, like those you might find in a package or restaurant. You see, … [Read more...]
Why You Should Cook with Duck Fat
When you hear the term “duck fat”, you might think of gourmet French cuisine or the duck fat fries that are now common in high-end restaurants and bistros. But duck fat doesn’t have to be reserved for special occasions or fancy food with elaborate preparations. Not only does duck fat provide unparalleled flavor to just about any dish – from the original “French fry” to green vegetables and … [Read more...]
The Health Benefits of Using a Pressure Cooker
What if I told you that there was a way to cook your food with the following results: Up to 90 percent less cooking time 90 percent nutrient retention Greater digestibility Fewer harmful cooking byproducts And what if I told you that this method will also produce some of the most succulent, flavorful and easy-to-make meals that you have ever set on the table? Sounds too good to … [Read more...]
How to Make Paleo Crab Cakes (with a Secret Ingredient!)
If you're a crab cake lover, you know that finding a truly good Paleo crab cake isn't easy. Most are loaded with breading, severely lacking in the crab department or fried to oblivion in unhealthy vegetable oil. But a GREAT crab cake - packed with big chunks of lump crab, donning a perfectly golden-brown exterior and just barely held together with creamy mayonnaise, egg and a little breading … [Read more...]
How to Make Coconut Popsicles (Paleo + Sugar Free!)
Now is the time to savor the last few weeks of summer. And what better way than with a creamy, ice-cold popsicle on a sun-drenched day! But if you've read the labels on most frozen treats, you probably know that commercial popsicles are made with sugar, colorings and artificial ingredients. Even the so-called "healthy" varieties made with "real fruit" often contain as much sugar as a can of … [Read more...]
How to Make Ghee in Your Slow Cooker
Do you love the rich, buttery silky flavor of ghee... but not the big pricetag? Learn how to make ghee - right on your stovetop or in your slow cooker - in just a few minutes for about half the price of what it costs already prepared and packaged. How to Make Ghee - The Ingredients & Tools To get started, purchase several pounds of Kerrygold Unsalted Butter. In general, half a pound of … [Read more...]
The Hidden Danger in Your Slow Cooker
In the 1970s, the electric slow cooker became almost as popular as disco music and pet rocks. Nearly every household in America had at least one “Crock Pot.” And for good reason… This kitchen appliance is easy to use and makes clean up a snap. And what’s not to love about the convenience of investing just a few minutes of prep time to have a fresh, hot meal ready at the end of the day. As … [Read more...]
