I’m a huge cinnamon fan. I shake it in my coffee, smoothies, muffins, stewed apples, and of course, pumpkin pie. Years ago I mixed it with a little sugar and made cinnamon toast. Imagine my shock when I learned that some brands have unsafe levels of...
Pumpkin is not only a hallmark of autumn and Halloween, but it's also a highly nutritious food that can be incorporated into various dishes. Pumpkins contain potassium, iron, and vitamins A, B-complex, C and E. Including more pumpkin in your diet may help improve immunity, heart...
(The following article was written for and published in the October 13, 2021 edition of Get Healthy, a publication of The Northwest Indiana Times.) You know it’s fall when pumpkin spice makes its appearance in everything from coffee to donuts to maple syrup. I even spied seasonal Pumpkin Spice...
If you recall, last week I suggested that you listen to classical music while enjoying your dinner. This week, I read an interesting article pertaining to music and food. A recent study in the journal Appetite revealed that when people listen to any kind of music...
If you’ve been reading my blog for the past year, you probably recall the weekly countdown to the birth of baby Angelos. We followed his size in the womb relative to the size of various kinds of produce until his birth, March 30, 2021. Yes, that...
It was quite a disturbing incident for such a small, quiet town. Everybody knew everybody in Danville. To think that my great pumpkin had been stolen was incomprehensible! I was only ten years old. My dad had grown the biggest pumpkin I had ever seen. It...
This morning’s newspaper contained a FOOD section. No surprise, it is my favorite section of the paper. Today, Mr. Non-Compliant husband of mine took great delight in handing it over, saying, “Oh, you’ll want to be sure to read this!” The main article was all about...