About: Cindy Brison MS RD LMNT

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Making Your Kitchen a Greener Place

We are celebrating Earth Day this week. Being earth friendly in the kitchen is a growing trend. This reaches beyond recylcing papers and cans. I read a few articles recently about going green in the kitchen. Buying locally produced foods, growing your own, and eating organic. More people than ever will be gardening this year due to the poor economy. You don't even need a yard to garden, just a few pots on a balcony. So how does this affect
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Rantings of a Recipe Junky!

Do you own over one hundred cookbooks?  Have you ever spent a great deal of time looking for "that" recipe in "that" cookbook?  I have-frequently!  I am a recipe junky-I admit it.  I own many (hundreds) of cookbooks.  I tear recipes out of magazines and newspapers.  I print them off the web.  I have files at home (big ones) with recipes I'd like to try.  I will have to live to be 200 years old to try all of them. 
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Cooking With Carbs

Whole wheat pasta, wild rice and legumes.  These are all very healthy additions to our everyday meals.  Many people stay away from these items, not because they do not like them, but because they do not know how to prepare them correctly.  Others do not know how to figure cooked amounts.   For example-what is a serving of rice, and how much uncooked rice will serve a certain amount of family members?  I know that I have overestimated how much rice
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