Side Dishes

Lord knows we Southerners haven't met a vegetable we can't throw a ham hock in. Well, both from a foodie and a weight loss perspective, that's a problem. A standard cooking concept is "if it doesn't benefit the dish's flavor or texture, it shouldn't be in there" -- in which case, you don't even...
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Today's recipe demonstrates two beautiful interesting health food tricks -- using traditional "problem foods" as a garnish and using leftover vegetables to add and guide flavor. Lest we forget these polenta cakes are nothing short of amazing?
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How many times have you decided to had a “cheat day” holiday weekend only to discover the foods you ate pre-diet tasted horrible, greasy and unappetizing? It turns out it’s cheat, in a sense – but less a “I’m going to treat myself, waistline be damned!” cheat and more “I just got suckered into...
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We hear the term “rabbit food” and associate with it all that’s lifeless and dull about dieting. That’s not our thing — fitness and fine food both should enliven your experience of life, not deaden it. So we use clever recipes and explain the techniques and ideas behind them to make rabbit food fit...
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Zucchini has both a high water and sugar content. This means the summer squash lends itself to both pureeing (the watery vegetable disperses into a light, airy and easily freezable sauce) and roasting (heating a vegetable such that its sugars caramelize and brown). So Kevin combined the two techniques and turned to the French nut-less...
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Bored with your standard diet food? With a classic cooking technique, creative use of spices and a little pizazz, traditional diet fare can become something as exciting to cook as it is to eat-rabbit food fit for a lion. In addition to the high-end recipes we provide, we also explain the cooking techniques and...
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Bored with your standard diet food? With a classic cooking technique, creative use of spices and a little pizazz, traditional diet fare can become something as exciting to cook as it is to eat-rabbit food fit for a lion. In addition to the high-end recipes we provide, we also explain the cooking techniques and...
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