Seared Steak with Red Wine Reduction — VIDEO!

Searing is a method of cooking where just the surface layers of the food are cooked, leaving the center rare to medium rare. Nutritionally speaking, this keep vitamins, healthy fats and the protein itself intact to insure you are getting the right nutrients with your meal. Video – Seared Steak Sign up for Alison’s Natural [...]

Healthy Kids – Farm to School Program

I thought I’d post this blog, after hearing yesterday about the recall of 143 million pounds of beef from the California slaughterhouse being investigated for animal abuse. Cows too sick to walk were filmed being shoveled up with fork lifts and dragged across floors with metal chains. Sad to say it, but I believe that [...]

Olive Oil — In Season

Olive oil should be consumed all year round, but winter is the best time to savor its freshly crushed, robust flavors. Sign up for Alison’s Natural Cooking eLetter – articles, recipes and inspiration once a month… FREE! The stronger the bite, the better. The compound called oleocanthal that gives olive oil its distinctive throaty sting [...]

Shopping Cart Makeovers

Even “natural” foods shoppers need a shopping cart makeover. With so many packaged, refined and processed items, it’s hard to get out of any natual foods market with a cart of healthy, life-sustaining food. Even one false move in the bulk aisle can leave me wounded. As much as I wish it were true, sugar-laced [...]