Grains&More

Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD for short, is a common mood disorder where people experience depressive symptoms in the winter or anxi...

Summer, that season of fresh salads, greens, berries, and melons all bursting with healthful vitamins and nutrients, has passed. Autumn, h...

Persimmons | photo: Tomomarusan It's persimmon season.  I love these tasty little fruits, with their rich fragrant scent and amazing ...

fresh tomato | photo: xandert I regularly teach a class on seasonal eating.  What the benefits are and why we should look to consume more...

Pea blossom | photo: Brynn Outside in the garden today I noticed that my peas are blooming.  I love their pretty white little flowers and...

Karen Roth is a colleague of mine and very knowledgeable about health and nutrition.  She's written a guest-blog for me to share with al...

Summer is all but over and Fall is just around the corner.  At this time of year I like to start cleaning out my clothes closet for the cha...

Spanish for fresh waters this is a refreshing summer drink with origins in Mexico where it is sold by street vendors.  Sometimes you can fin...

With the fall season fast approaching root crops are coming into season. Turnips are a great root vegetable and can be very versatile in th...

As the song goes, "To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn." I was reminded of that this week when I...

My friend Tracy recently wrote in and asked what to do with the leftover steel cut oats she has.  Her family doesn't really like eating ...

I love summer eating.  Using fresh vegetables, grilling, delicious salads, it all adds up to a refreshing and satisfying way to eat.   My si...

As the weather warms up and the summer grows closer many people are spending more time outdoors, enjoying the sunshine and trying to get som...

Here in Texas 'tis the season...for wildflowers.  Driving around town, seeing the beautiful flowers that were sown last fall, bluebonnet...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne? - Robert Burns Auld ...

My friend Helene had a couple of questions for me: 1.  " My cookies require fresh ginger....the last root I bought turned out to be ver...

is all around us.  For those in the Northeast, where I used to live, the leaves have left the trees and cooler weather is here.  Here in Tex...