Youthful, Active, Healthy

I love black bean soup – any time of year.  But I tend to make more of it in the winter because Chicago gets cold and there’s nothing quite like soup to get the chill out of your bones.  Black bean soup has [...] Read More

A Guest Blog From My Sister – Ingrid Kunze

Does the thought of cabbage soup excite you? No? Does it remind you of poor Charlie Bucket of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and his daily servings of cabbage and water soup?

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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

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

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