We’re taking a deep-dive this month into wholesome, unprocessed dinners, and for our second day of clean-eating dinner recipes, we’re going super-colorful with this Grilled Pineapple Chicken Salad with Orange Coconut Dressing. Have you ever grilled fruit before? If you haven’t, pineapple is a good place to start. Grilling a pineapple is super-easy, creates pretty […]
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California Orange Olive Oil Cake
Can we call these the “dog days” of winter? It’s a little dreary outside and the cold has been dragging on for just a little bit too long. Right about now we need just a little spritz of something bright and cheery. Enter the orange: winter’s cheeriest ball of sunshine, becoming ripe and sweet just […]
Sun Basket Dinners
If you like cooking quick, tasty recipes with organic food, you’re in luck: Sun Basket, a premium organic cooking delivery service, has now expanded its reach to both coasts. It works like this: Each week, Sun Basket’s chef and nutritionist create a menu with choices of recipes, and you choose 3 meals for 2 or […]
A Kid’s Salad
With all of that “green stuff,” salad can be a tough sell for many kids. Last week we worked our way around the problem by making a tasty summer bread salad. This week we tried a different tactic with our slightly picky (OK, let’s say “selective”) 9-year-old: We put him entirely in charge of creating […]
Organic Produce and Orange-Ginger Lemonade
Produce delivery day! Even if you know what’s going to be in the box, it’s still exciting to open it up and see what’s inside. (The cat is standing guard just in case a vegetable jumps out and needs to be pounced upon.) We’re happy to report that Melissa’s Produce has added a range of […]
Sumo Time
Are you ready for Sumo time? Not summertime, Sumo time. The Sumo (known in Japan as a Dekopon) is a tangerine/orange hybrid developed in Japan and now grown in California. It looks like the biggest mandarin you’ve ever seen – with a distinctive top-knot – and it’s super-sweet, seedless, and easy to peel. In other […]
Hi! I'm Jeanne Fratello - a writer, reporter, and a mom who is on a mission to find great food for kids and to keep parents up to date on the latest nutrition news. You can read more about me here.
