Youthful, Active, Healthy

When I make salmon, I always make more than I’m going to eat because I like leftovers.  Spinach and Salmon salad with a lemon dill dressing is a easy dinner anyone can make within a matter of minutes and it’s quite tasty.

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Sometimes you just crave the taste of an Asian salad.  I love the ginger-soy-sesame flavor combination and serve it over many different types of salads.

Serve this Asian Salad Dressing  over a salad of field greens, chicken tenderloins, avocado, and mandarin oranges.  Or try this with avocado, [...] Read More

Growing up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, wild rice was often served on our table in the winter months.  My dad even learned how to harvest the rice  by knocking the seed heads with a stick into the tarp that lined his canoe in early [...] Read More

We are a family of lemon lovers.  My daughter Claire had gotten a large bag of lemons for a different recipe but didn’t need all of them and I was looking in the fridge for salad dressing that would go well with the baked cod that [...] Read More

I love this recipe because it is simple and because it tastes so good.  You won’t even know it’s healthy for you and is such a great way to get both protein and complex carbs into your diet!  Your family will love this [...] Read More

One of the reasons I like to make a roasted chicken is because of the leftovers!  I created this chicken salad with pomegranates and apples with things I already had in my kitchen.  It was quick, delicious and quite pretty as well if I do [...] Read More

When you are looking for a quick, healthy and tasty way to get greens into your diet, simple sauteed spinach is one of the easiest ways to do that.

First I saute onion in some olive oil over medium heat.  After the onions are glassy I add chopped [...] Read More

One of my very favorite (and economical) dinners is making a roasted chicken.  Depending upon how many mouths you have to feed, you can get multiple dinners out of this and get some excellent bone broth as well (more on that later).

I do buy rotisserie [...] Read More

This past summer I grew kale in my garden for the first time, and what I’m discovering is that the cooler the weather gets, the better the kale becomes.  In the summer, kale can have a bitter edge to it, but with cooler weather that [...] Read More

If you’ve ever been to PF Chang’s, you know that the Cashew  Chicken Lettuce Wraps are one of the most popular items on the menu.  Well here is a way to enjoy It’s low carb and you use the lettuce leaves instead of rice paper [...] Read More