Recipes

8 Smart Tips to Live a Heart-Healthy Life

Your heart pumps blood to the rest of your body day in and day out. This goes on all of the time, without you...

Skinny Marble Cheesecake in a Mug

Why wait all week for a diet cheat day when you can savor something sweet, without the calorie and fat splurge, right now? Keep...

Chocolate Mousse Pie

Someone broke your heart. You walked by a bakery. It’s three o’clock and you’re staring at a computer. Whatever it is that flips the...

Friday Favorites: Sea Salt Spray, Lipstick & Late-Night Snacks

This week, I dug up a long-lost sea salt spray to add volume to my hair. Plus, I’m sharing my all-time favorite lipstick color...

Low-Carb Chicken-Vegetable Soup

Whether a cold wind is blowing, a sleety rain falling or bone-chilling snow piling in the driveway, nothing warms you up like a bowl...

Luscious Lemon Bars

Tart yet sweet, with a creamy texture and a delicate, oat-flour-based crust, these lemon bars are light on the lips and on the hips,...

A Vegetarian Diet: Is It Right for You?

Ever since Beyonce and Jay Z announced to the world that they were undertaking a 22-day vegan plant-based cleanse, the term “plant-based diet” has...

Zucchini Pasta with Avocado Sauce

Whether your diet is paleo, gluten-free or vegan, zucchini pasta is the perfect way to still have fun  spinning noodles without the flour, carbs...

Brown Rice Power Breakfast

Brown rice hot cereal is a breakfast staple in my house. It’s naturally delicious on its own, but I doctor mine up with protein-packed...

Power Trip Polenta

Remember Flo from the TV show “Alice?” She was (in)famous for the line, “Kiss my grits.” Well, you will want to kiss these grits,...

What Makes Amaranth So Amazing?

Q: What is Amaranth? A: Amaranth is a member of the “goosefoot family” of plants, technically referred to as  Chenopodiaeceae.    Its kin includes...

Vanilla-Raspberry Protein Cheesecake

Would you eat a cheesecake made without cream cheese? You might if you knew it wasn’t loaded with saturated fat and sugar. In fact,...