About: Audra Losey, MS, RD

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Dust Off the Forgotten Kitchen Appliances

When my husband and I got married, we combined all of our kitchen appliances.  Both of us had accumulated a kitchen full of various gadgets in the years since college.  I thought everything I contributed were "must haves" for any cook, and looked quite skeptically at many of the items my husband contributed.  What in the world was I ever going to do with a silly George Foreman type grill that I'd only seen on infomercials?  I thought you only
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TVP: Give it a Chance

Textured Vegetable Protein, oftentimes called TVP®, is a pantry staple in my kitchen.  The inspiration for writing about TVP® came when my husband found a bag of it on the counter and exclaimed, "What is that!?!?"  I explained it's what he happily gobbled down in his tacos last week and in his spaghetti tonight.  I use it in many recipes where you would typically use ground beef or turkey.  The only ingredient in plain TVP is de-fatted soy flour. (Don't
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Taking Your Lunch to Work Just Got Easier!

It doesn't sound all that hard - preparing a sandwich at night to take to work the next day.  But somehow, it is for me.  At the end of a long day, the last thing I want to do is dirty my kitchen after my husband has cleaned it up after dinner.  The option of making a sandwich at the same time I prepare dinner is good, in theory.  However my dinner preparation now includes keeping a very busy 1-year-old
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