Well, I am back from vacation and ready to cook! It always feels good to be back in my kitchen when I have been a way for a bit. Today I felt like a salad with a little bit of everything so I made one up. Check this baby out….YUMMMY! I definitely like my protein […]

Hope you are having a GREAT week. I have been feeling a bit beat, on antibiotics (ugh!), but trying to keep it all in perspective and get over my BIG self!  I have been doing lots of cooking this week which always makes me happy. I love Asian inspired recipes so this recipe is a […]

When I was creating recipes for my book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Well with IBS I had to think quick on my feet and come up with some recipes I had never tried.  I had to fill half a book (thirteen chapters) with my own concoctions and had a tight time limit! I found tostada […]

Every summer we try to visit Saratoga Springs, NY and connect with our dear friends, Neil and Dianna.  Dianna and I go way back to our dietetic internship days at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. One visit Dianna packed a picnic lunch with chicken salad sandwiches that were outrageously good.  I remember she […]

Dear Tony (my Italian Father-in-law), The meatball recipe I am providing is no where near what you had the pleasure in devouring as a young child of an amazing Italian cook!  But, I have to say, I really like my recipe.  It’s a little out of the ordinary…but I do think, if you tried them, […]

This chicken recipe has been my  favorite lately.  I have made it 2 weeks in a row. 🙂  I love that is is simple and very family friendly. Mix equal amounts of parmesan cheese… and sesame seeds. I usually start with about 3/4 cup of each. Purchase chicken cutlets or pound chicken breasts to even […]

I love experimenting in the kitchen.  This weeks experiment=using quinoa to make a pizza crust. Quinoa is a gluten free and FODMAP friendly grain, but more than that…it is great source of protein & fiber AND tastes yummy too! This is tricolor quinoa. I found this recipe to make a quinoa crust with relatively few […]

I haven’t had tofu in a while and thought I would whip up a little Asian-inspired sesame tofu with broccoli and cashews walnuts or Pine nuts Update: Since I wrote this post, the researchers at Monash discovered cashews are high in FODMAPs so sub in walnuts if on low FODMAP diet! Have you tried tofu? […]

I started my college career at Emory University in Atlanta. Not really knowing what I wanted to be when I grew up, I knew that a school with a strong science department was a good place to start. I used to love to go to a little restaurant in the Virginia Highlands area of Atlanta […]