When you’re eating gluten-free or grain-free and being mindful of your intake of pre-made foods….dishes like fetuccinne, gnocchi, and lasagna get rotated out in place of lighter fare. The sugar spike from the processed flour in the pasta, combined with the irritating gluten protein in the wheat can leave you feeling lethargic and overly full [continue reading]
Last week I was on the road to teach a Whole Foods cooking class, and an Anatomy lecture Saturday at my favorite Denver gym, Qi. Traveling present some unique challenges, especially when we’re sticking to our clean-eating lifestyle – which is why I always look for healthy grocery stores to pick up a few clean [continue reading]
I really love sliders. There’s something so appealing about mini burgers for one, and I just love stacking things! Ever since I made the Sweet Potato Sliders last week I’ve been eyeing up vegetables looking for just the right size, shape and texture to hold a burger together – minus a traditional bun. I wanted [continue reading]
I saw the most amazing sweet potatoes the other day and I was thinking I should turn them into burger buns. You could easily create a vegetarian or vegan burger, even a breakfast burger with this fun idea! So many possibilities….here’s mine to get you started! Sweet Potato Sliders You will need: knife, cutting board, [continue reading]
I got to stay at my good friend Maddy’s house in Denver last weekend on my little trip to snow country and she happened to have a julienne blade in her drawer. Yes!! Zucchini Pasta happened! To make dinner complete, I marinated a piece of Sea Bass in a little maple syrup, some slivered almonds, [continue reading]
I am notorious for cooking fast, healthy dinners that taste so good friends say, I wish I could order this kind of food in a restaurant! I remember many dinners at nice places that had me scrambling to find something to order that was gluten free, wasn’t cooked with a ton of saturated fat or [continue reading]
One of the easiest ways to make a quick, easy and delicious fish dish is to simply bake it. For this quick dinner recipe, I threw a bunch of vegetables on a piece of cod and baked it for 20 minutes. I actually made this a day before I was planning to eat it, and [continue reading]
Here’s a super easy, delicious and awesome Fitness Food Dinner Idea. If you’re a regular on my website or in my Instagram feed you’ve seen my Sesame Herbed Turkey Bites in other great recipes I make (like Fire-Roasted Awesome Tomato Soup, or Gluten-Free Pizza with Pesto). I wanted to make them the other night but [continue reading]
I made it to Austin! The first place I went was Whole Foods, right downtown. It’s one of the coolest Whole Foods I’ve ever been to – as it should be, it’s their flagship store! Even though I’m living out of a friend’s kitchen and won’t have all my own cookware for a few weeks, [continue reading]
It was awesome being in the tropical island paradise where I spent last week (Cook Islands, New Zealand) but can I just say I cannot live without KALE?! This was awesome. I have a day stopover in LA on my way back to Denver, just enough time to hit Whole Foods off Santa Monica Boulevard [continue reading]