Carole “Bring the Salad”

Carole’s Salad They always ask me to “bring the salad”!! No wonder when it it filled with everything good, delicious and nutritious!! Enjoy with your favorite grill this 4th of July!! This yummy salad goes is a perfect party pleaser filled with crisp, organic, healthy vegetables! A compliment to any pot luck , party or […]

Minted Israeli Couscous with Fried Eggs

I usually make more food than can be eaten in one sitting, and that’s a good thing; because reinventing healthy meals from left over dishes is a great time saver for those of us with extremely busy lives. It is also a great way to experiment with nutritionally sound ideas that have exceptionally healthy and delicious results!! Making […]

Healing Chicken Vegetable Soup

There’s no mystery to it!! Chicken is full of the amino acid arginine and arginine kicks start the pituitary gland to make us healthy and maintain optimal immune function! It’s not a wife’s tale, it’s science and nature working together!! My organic chicken and vegetable soup is the winter cure to keep us healthy!! In a deep pot […]

Pot of Beans for the New Year

A traditional pot of beans welcomes the New Year for many groups of people throughout the world! Here are two simply delicious, healthy and easy to prepare bean salads to celebrate the the 2015 New Year!! Ayocote Bean Salad A simply fabulous bean salad starring heirloom ayocote runner beans and simple vegetables in a white […]

Christmas Salad

This salad is particularly impressive at a holiday meal! The key to it’s appeal is the layering process, with each new layer another dimension of the salad is created! Arrange the salad in a large shallow serving platter; do not use a deep bowl! Start with roughly chopped crisp romaine lettuce, then a layer of sturdy […]

Pasta con Sarde-A Traditional Christmas Eve Pasta!!!

Bucatini with Sardines & Fennel This is my version of a traditional Sicilian pasta dish eaten on special occasions such as Christmas Eve! Bucatini, linguine or fettuccine are all fabulous choices for this dish! The addition of saffron, pine nuts and raisins speaks of the regions rich ethnic history! You will really enjoy this sweet, salty,spicy mix […]

Vegetarian Winter Soups and Entreés

As the holidays approach us, laden with rich gourmet meals, it is important to keep in balance by including lighter nutritional meals that don’t skimp on flavor and don’t tip the scales!! It’s cold here in the North, so we must keep healthy with warming, nutritional soups and entreés to take the chill off and […]

Give A Gift, Feed a Child

This Holiday Season Do you have a foodie on your holiday gift list? If you are like me, you have more than one friend or family member who would just cherish my user friendly cookbook filled with delicious and healthy recipes! Remember when you give my cookbook as a gift, you also give $5.00 to […]

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So what else do I have to do but to write this fabulously simple cookbook which compiles the best of my recipes created over the many years of cooking for and feeding people who visited us at our Natural Food Store in Southern California -called Seacoast! My husband Geoffrey and I have been in the […]