By Catharine L. Kaufman (a.k.a. The Kitchen Shrink) Edited by Dina Eliash Robinson Every October, pink ribbons and shop window decorations herald its designation as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Some people carry the reminder … Read More
String Beans & More Summer Soup
Ingredients (Preferably all organic) • ¾ cup chopped red onion • 3 cloves chopped fresh garlic • about 5 cups of string (green) beans • about 2 cups of coarsely shredded kale leaves leaves (hard … Read More
True Food Kitchen—Our Favorite Restaurant in San Diego
For Thanksgiving 2015, True Food Kitchen has generously offered its super-healthy Squash Pie recipe to patrons who wish to make it at home. Least we can do is pass on to you their graceful gift: … Read More
Butternut Squash Soup Recipe— Easy & Equally Delicious Hot & Cold
By Dina Eliash Robinson Serendipity is my best friend in the kitchen. Especially when a vegetable intentionally omitted from my shopping list seduces me and changes my plans for next week’s menus. Which is exactly … Read More
Mating Game of Date Palms
By Catharine L. Kaufman (a.k.a. The Kitchen Shrink) Perhaps this column should be marked PG-13, since much of what’s said about the exotic fruit often called “tree candy,” cannot avoid a slightly suggestive tinge. Starting … Read More
Missing The Pastry Baking Gene? Improvise.
By Dina Eliash Robinson If you have ever been ridiculed by in-laws at the family Thanksgiving dinner with stories of your pastry baking disasters; or had a cooking class instructor roll his eyes as you … Read More
Ruby Yam Delight — A Slim Dessert & Introduction to “Jazz Cooking.”
By Dina Eliash Robinson The quick and easy-to-prepare Ruby Yam Delight is not only an inexpensive, nutritious and delicious dessert, but a perfect gateway recipe to “Jazz Cooking.” Intended as a reference to culinary improvisation, … Read More
Apple & Almond-Flour Cake
Ingredients: (Organic preferred. Feel free to adjust ingredients, proportions and measurements to your taste & creativity.) • One box of frozen, Organic Filo Dough (sold at Whole Foods and other health food stores) • 10 … Read More
Tasty Treats Play Tricks On Kids
By Catharine Kaufman—a.k.a. The Kitchen Shrink Most parents realize sooner or later that while threats and bribes tend merely to strengthen kids’ resolve to hold out for takeout pizza and other fast food, a … Read More
Laughter Helps The Veggies Go Down
By Dina Eliash Robinson Our FreeRangeClub.com (FRC) partner and nationally syndicated food columnist, Catharine Kaufman—known and celebrated as The Kitchen Shrink—raised and fed healthy fare to her two previously vegetable-averse daughters (and, in no small … Read More