Author: Jim Romanoff
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Bring fast food home for a healthy post-holiday season
For too many of us, the holiday season isn’t just about spreading glad tidings and joy. It’s also about the spreading of the waistline. Consider healthy homemade fast food to help you get back into shape. These diet-worthy dishes won’t tie you to the kitchen, but also won’t weigh you down. Think about having a…
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Cocktail popovers three ways
Want to lighten up your holiday hors d’oeuvres? Cut out the middle.Mini cocktail popovers are an elegant and satisfying choice for a healthy party food. Even though they’re satisfyingly eggy and have the irresistible carbs of a baked good, they’re hollow in the center, so they pack fewer calories. They also are amazingly simple to…
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Even you have time to make fancy hors d’oeuvres
You may have fantasies of whipping up a feast of glamorous hors d’oeuvres for your holiday party, but your reality probably doesn’t allow for a whole lot of mini-quiche baking or rolling out of puff pastry.The good news is that the middle ground isn’t so hard to reach.These Orange-Arugula Crab Salad Bites benefit from the…
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Braise veggies for healthy, flavorful holiday side
Vegetable sides can be the most virtuous players in the pageantry of your holiday meal, but only if they’re cooked and finished the right way. After all, veggies are low in calories and fat until you add lots of calories and fat to them. Which is easy to do with many traditional sides. The traditional…
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Make holiday cookies more healthful
More so than most holiday desserts, cookies are the perfect portion-controlled treat that — when enjoyed in moderation — can be a better option than a big wedge of pie or cake.But in case you plan on eating more than one, there are some strategies for baking a healthier holiday cookie.For starters, you can add…
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In autumn, an easy meat pie to leave you satisfied
Whether it’s for a Halloween party or Sunday in front of the widescreen for a football game, good food for a fall gathering should be hearty, flavorful and easy to prepare.With this rustic pork and veal pie, you can put a checkmark next to all three.For the savory filling of this freeform meat pie, you…
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These Halloween cookies aren’t a nutritional horror
A good scare on Halloween is fine, unless it’s from reading the nutrition label on one of your kid’s treats (or one of your own, for that matter).But there are plenty of culinary tricks when it comes to making your own healthful Halloween treats, especially when it comes to cookies.Start by replacing up to half…
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Fix-it-and-store-it potpie is perfect dish for busy fall
As summer ends and life gets back to its normal, hectic pace, it’s good to have a couple tricks for getting dinner on the table without too much trouble.This Mediterranean Chicken and Artichoke Potpie has a golden filo pastry crust that envelopes a lemony filling of chicken, feta cheese, convenient canned artichoke hearts and rice.…
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Autumn signals start of stew season
The shorter days of autumn generally signal that it is time to get out the stew pot.This fall, when that mood strikes (or there’s a crowd to feed), consider veering off the traditional recipe path and trying this somewhat unconventional, yet still classically comforting, fragrant coconut-lime beef stew.Fresh ginger, ground coriander, cumin and turmeric season…
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Do-ahead chicken potpie makes an easy fall dinner
As summer ends and life gets back to its normal, hectic pace, it’s good to have a couple tricks for getting dinner on the table without too much trouble.This Mediterranean chicken and artichoke potpie has a golden filo pastry crust that envelopes a lemony filling of chicken, feta cheese, convenient canned artichoke hearts and rice.…