Rachael Ray

Have you ever wished that when you went out to dinner, or visited a new town, you knew where to find a restaurant that served healthy food? Well that’s the information that the Clean Plates website provides, and now they’ve published The Clean Plates Cookbook, full of healthy recipes — many of which are contributed by their favorite restaurant chefs. Above: Kale Salad recipe, by chef Hadley Schmitt of New York’s Northern Spy Food Co. restaurant, from The Clean Plates Cookbook Most healthy cookbooks have an outlook on eating that relies on one exclusive theory, such as veganism, raw food, the Paleo diet, etc. But the author of The Clean Plates Cookbook, Jared Koch, is a nutritionist, and he has a different [...]...

The cold weather is whipping it’s way through NYC and while I’d love nothing more than to be sitting on a white sandy beach about now, being 8 months pregnant, I’ll have to settle for a less expensive and closer to home bone warming option. Soup! Soup is one of my sons favorite meals. In fact, no matter where we eat, I know as long as there is soup on the menu, he’s covered. He loves the stuff and so do I. Besides being comforting, it’s a busy mamas dream meal. Soup can be made relatively quickly, packed with nutrients and most importantly in ONE POT! Can I get a “Heck Yeah!!, people? In our house, we love all kinds of [...]...