Archive for Organic Food
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Sustainable Recipe: Salmon Puttanesca
Recipe: Sustainable Salmon Puttanesca, Ready in 15 minutes The ladies of the night, who originally made this sauce famous in Italy, knew they’d better get their dinner fixed in a hurry. There was work to be done. And so began the famous Italian Sauce made with olives, basil, tomatoes, capers...
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Eat More Weigh Less: Easy Recipes for Eggs
The incredible, edible egg is a mainstay on The Silver Cloud Diet. Eat two eggs for breakfast every day, then, perhaps eat an egg for a protein laden snack, or choose egg preparations for your lunch or supper. Why choose eggs? With only 75 calories, a big jolt of protein and necessary mic...
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Eat More – Weigh Less Recipe: Chicken Pork Adobo
Count on the traditional cultures around the world to have perfected stews that provided a full stomach at a low cost. In the Phillipines, a country with a cultural marriage between Asian and Spanish influences, there are stews called Adobo which perfectly represent this need. Chicken and pork...
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Eat More, Weigh Less. A New Series of Recipes to get you through.
Eat More, Weigh Less I know you think this is an absurd thing to promise, but The Silver Cloud Diet lets you do just that. Eat more really good, wholesome food, and weigh less. A lot less. Five of our favorite Feel Good Food Faves are: Berry Smoothie BBQ Shrimp Chicken, Greens an...
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Recipe: Madhur Jaffrey’s Turmeric Salmon Is Healthy and Good
One day, in Dr. Salerno's office, a beautiful Israeli woman was sitting with me in the waiting room. She told of getting a serious gash on her forehead which seemed to require stitches. But she remembered what an aged Indian nanny had done when she was a child, and that was to pack the wound with ...
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Recipe: Easy Vegetarian Soup Beginning with Nutrient Dense Pumpkin
I had to hunt and hunt for a pumpkin to make this soup for a Boxing Day party, but I finally found a couple. You could easily substitute winter squash, or, in a pinch, use canned pumpkin. But the main idea is to create a soup to make a satisfying lunch with a punched up flavor. This soup use...
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Soy may not be healthy after all.
Food purists often fuss about the inadequacies of USDA's organic food standards, how pitifully watered down they are from the lofty principles that built the organic movement. They have a point. After all, the USDA's National Organic Program was created to deal with the big agribusinesses determ...
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Fresh Salsas from a Family Farm for a Healthy Treat
Denise and Bernie's Driving Goats (photos courtesy of Szarek Farms) Szarek Farms is a great example of the old maxim, "necessity is the mother of invention". A small greenhouse grower in Central New York, the husband and wife team of Denise and Bernie Szarek cultivates tomatoes, peppers, fruits a...
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recipe: Glazed Salmon on a bed of Lentils with Mustard Butter
Nothing simpler than buying a side of salmon, figuring 4-6 oz. per person, then glazing with a simple chile glaze and topping with fresh herbs and mustard butter. Want to tart this recipe up, serve that luscious wild-caught salmon on a bed of French green lentils and top it with a mustard but...
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Senate Passes Bill That Addresses Food Safety. Sort of.
Months after her 2-year-old son died from eating a fast-food hamburger tainted with E. coli in January 1993, Diana Nole of Gig Harbor, Wash., went to Capitol Hill and asked Congress to overhaul the nation's food-safety laws. Now Congress could be on the verge of passing a sweeping measure that N...
