Meet Nick. Nope, not my brother, Nick, another Nick! Nick Myers, a Miami student. As a Miami grad myself, I was pumped when I got an email from one of my nutrition professors whom I've kept in touch with. She had assigned her students to find a nutrition blog and do a review on the blog. Nick walked into class, pulled up LaughterandLemonade.com and began his review. The professor said, "hey, I know her! She was my student at … [Read more...]
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Real Diet Talk + My Go-To Avocado Toast
Hiiiii! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Can you believe it’s 2016?! It’s a new year and maybe a new year’s resolution… has your diet or plan to exercise started? I mean what’s a food blog… written by a registered dietitian nonetheless… that doesn’t address this topic in the new year?? It’s an important topic to me, because as you know, I dabbled in diets before, which you can read about in this post: Closing the Chapter on Paleo Paisan & Top 10. … [Read more...]
Soul Mac
Soul mac and cheese. I learned recently that another term for legit mac and cheese is Soul Macaroni and Cheese. So not mac and cheese from a box. And not my mom's legendary, simple, everyday, staple mac and cheese I grew up eating (which I will share with you at some point). Soul mac and cheese is legit - you thicken milk with a traditional roux (fancy word for cooking flour in fat like melted butter). Then you add cheese. Then you … [Read more...]
Spicy Kale Caesar with Chicken and Candied Pepitas
You guys. I cannot tell you how much I love this recipe. Caesar salad with kale. Plus candied nuts. Plus hot sauce. Plus chicken. I hope the pictures are conveying the deliciousness or I'm going to have to keep inventing words like deliciousness to describe it. I think I'm loving on it so much because it has everything: salty, sweet, spicy. Crunch and creaminess. Hot and cold. Fresh and cooked. It hits so many notes in one bite. … [Read more...]
Paleo Banana Blender Bread
Though I'm not strictly paleo and vow to never even remotely follow any diet again, I still cook and eat a lot of things that would be considered paleo because I do like the idea of eating whole, real food. Enter Paleo Banana Blender Bread! … [Read more...]
Could cooking rice differently be our answer to obesity?
Articles were published yesterday across many news platforms sharing the latest research where scientists figured out a simple way to cook rice that dramatically cut the calories. (Here's a link to one of them.) Their basic idea is that if you cook rice with a little coconut oil (or any medium-chain triglyceride [MCT] oil) then cool it down, it forms resistant starches. Resistant starches are not normally the type of carbohydrate found in … [Read more...]