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]]>Not convinced yet? Jen Hansard from Simple Green Smoothies will have convinced that when it comes to your health – smoothies are a real game changer. According to Hansard, it was only when she started drinking smoothies that she realized how low in energy she once was. Soon, she went from being exhausted and feeling defeated—to being energized and empowered.
“I was nutritionally deprived and my body was unable to give me the energy that I once had,” she writes on her website. “Then I discovered green smoothies thanks to my friend… and I was instantly hooked. I started drinking at least one green smoothie a day and my energy levels soared.”
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]]>The post This Brand and Restaurant Will Help You Maintain a Healthy Diet appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>Here at Cooking 4 All, we hope to inspire you to switch up your diet, one small step at a time. This week, we come equipped with a restaurant recommendation: Los Angeles’ Botanica. A restaurant/market turned wellness brand, Botanica inhabits both an actual space and a virtual space and includes a website and magazine.
Launched in 2017 by friends and food writers Heather Sperling and Emily Fiffer, the brand has amassed quite a fanbase over the past year. “We believe that healthful cooking can be vibrant, creative, and wildly satisfying,” they write on their website. “We believe that hospitality should be nourishing. We’re big into color and flavor; we’re not into rules. We serve food that makes you feel good.”
The duo’s restaurant serves meals that are made from all-local vegetables, fruits and dairy; a rainbow of grains and legumes; spices and vinegars from across the world; healthy fats (local and organic when possible); wild Pacific seafood, and sustainably raised meat. Refined sugars, processed foods, and products of industrial agriculture are nowhere to be seen.
“This isn’t rocket science, but eating many pounds of green things, drinking lots of water, and getting ample fats on the daily,” explained Fiffer in an interview with Golubka Kitchen, where she talked about her diet plan. “Supplements aside, being happy is the number one glow weapon. You can slather on all the oil in the world and eat well but if you’re feeling crummy it’ll show.”
“The beauty of cooking with no rules is the ability to call on any number of ingredients to make something taste more delicious,” she went on to say. “The result is a menu with dishes that are vegan, vegetarian, meaty, gluten-free, glutinous, dairy-free, yogurt-laden, etc., etc. We like to think we can make almost anyone happy—there’s something for everyone.”
Dishes include the Heirloom Melon Salad (composed of melon, sheep’s milk feta and cashew-chive sour cream), the Cherry Gateau Basque, and the tomatillo, heirloom bean, spigarello and feta shakshuka – an absolute favorite. But you don’t actually have to be in LA to enjoy what the brand has to offer. Sign up for their online publication or follow them on Instagram for a boost of energy.
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]]>The post Dive Into the Magic of Breadmaking with Alexandra Stafford appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>But purchasing good bread is one thing—making a loaf yourself is a whole other ballpark. Cookbook author and bread enthusiast, Alexandra Stafford, will teach you how it’s done from beginning to end. Her cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs, offers recipes for no-knead loaves and meals to savor every slice: a perfect guide for bakers wanting to explore the world of possibilities for making their own loaves.
According to Stafford, her passion for bread is tied to her childhood, and more specifically her mother. “I can’t imagine growing up without bread rising on the counter all the time, and eating it at every meal,” she relayed in an interview with A Way to Garden. “I didn’t really think it was anything special growing up because it was what was always around, because my mother was always baking bread.”
Following in her mother’s footsteps, Stafford grew up with a passion for cooking, and more specifically bread. Having launched her own food blog, Alexandra’s Kitchen, in 2006 she soon learned that her love for food could reach a growing audience. Her blog has since been recognized by The New York Times, Saveur, Bon Appetit, Fine Cooking, and Goop.
“I love bread,” she writes on her website. “I love eating bread. I love making bread. I love teaching people how to bake bread. I wrote a cookbook all about bread and how to use every last crumb to its full potential.”
According to Stafford, when she gets down to half a loaf of bread or a quarter of a loaf of bread, she usually stashes all those heels in the freezer, for when she’s ready to make crumbs. “When I am ready to make crumbs, I will thaw them, puree them in the food processor, spread them on a sheet pan, and then I like to dry them in the oven slowly,” she notes.
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]]>The post Consider Yourself a Real Foodie? Follow Tieghan Gerard on Instagram appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>A foodie through and through, the secret ingredient to Gerard’s cooking (as cliche as it may sound) is love. According to the seasoned blogger, her recipes are inspired by the people and places she loves most, with the goal to make mealtime a happier time.
Seeing as she comes from a large family, this makes perfect sense. “I am one of seven kids, so my parents had their hands full with my brothers and me,” Gerard told All Sorts Of. “We wouldn’t eat until nine or ten at night.” Wanting to tame some of these chaotic meals, Gerard took to cooking by the age of 14.
“One night I just decided I was making dinner,” she recalls. “I think I made a Rachel Ray recipe and everyone loved it. I’ve been cooking for friends and family ever since.” The love of cooking was hence tied with this positive experience, and seeing other people’s hearty reactions made the hard work worthwhile. “I love to cook for people, seeing their reactions is so rewarding!” says Gerard.
These days, her cooking and recipes are still very much tied to family mealtimes. Gerard’s house—a converted horse barn that was designed entirely around her lifestyle—provides the perfect backdrop to her passion-turned-full-time job. “It’s where I shot my first cookbook, and where I spend my days experimenting with new recipes, photographing my creations, feeding my family, and making one giant mess in the process,” she explains.
Recent recipe highlights we’re dying to recreate include her Strawberry Pink Drink. “When everyone around me was carrying a pretty pink drink, an idea hit and the homemade ‘pink drink’ was created,” writes Gerard on her Instagram page, explaining that the drink is a version of the Starbucks favorite, but healthier and made with double the strawberry, açaí, and extra creaminess. “It’s so creamy, it’s almost milkshake-like,” she writes. “This is good you guys. trust me, make it a home.” Oh, we shall!
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]]>The post Opening a Food Blog is No Piece of Cake! Lindsay Ostrom Will Help You Out appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>Lindsay Ostrom of Pinch of Yum is one of those food-blogger-turned-mentors. Based in Saint Paul, MN where she shares a home with her husband Bjork and their dog Sage, like most foodies, she took to blogging as a hobby (her main job being a fourth-grade teacher). But what started out as a casual hobby for nights and weekends, would blossom into a viral phenomenon.
Part of Pinch of Yum’s initial charm is it’s down-to-earth approach to cooking. The website offers a huge range of recipes that are specially designed for real, actual, every day life, with a focus on real foods and healthy recipes. And with some one million (!) followers on Instagram, the blog’s recipe for success seems to have worked.
These days, alongside their recipes, Pinch of Yum offers resources and sound advice to other aspiring food bloggers. “Over the last 10+ years of working on Pinch of Yum, we’ve learned a ton about growing and monetizing blogs,” the website reads. The site now includes resources, strategies, and advice around growing a blog and a presence online.
“For other bloggers, it’s not just a food blog, but it can be a teaching resource of how you can grow your blog,” Ostrom further explained in an interview with Hot Chocolate Hits.
Ostrom’s most important advice: don’t do it for the money. “Do it for the love of food and the love of blogging!” she told Rachel Cooks. “There is definitely money to be made, but it’s just so rare to get that right out of the gate. You need to be willing to work for free for a while, so do it for the love!”
Another good tip: invest in a good camera, or just learn the camera you have as best as you can and keep practicing. According to Ostrom, the initial hook for people is going to be the image so you might as well put some effort into it.
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]]>The post Comfort Food At It’s Best: Follow Dennis Prescott’s Instagram Page appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>A Canadian chef and cookbook author, Prescott’s is a master when it comes to the art of deliciousness. “Deliciousness requires risk,” he remarked in an interview with Medium. “Taking risks guarantees failure while on the road to success.” A mix of high brow and lowbrow, his posts include flavour-packed lamb burgers and duck confit tacos, with mouthwatering photos that make that salad bowl you were planning for lunch look extra sad.
To enjoy Prescott’s recipes we recommend going to the source: his cookbook, titled aptly Eat Delicious. The book includes 125 recipes for your daily dose of awesome, featuring comfort food from around the globe that can be prepared by any home cook, no matter their skill level.
Indeed, Prescott’s journey to becoming a celebrated chef, might just inspire you to get cooking. A once struggling musician living in Nashville, TN, he learned how to cook by working his way through several Jamie Oliver cookbooks. Working alongside chefs in various restaurants, lead him to travel the world as a chef and ultimately become the master he is today.
“When I started, I naively thought all I’d have to focus on was food,” he says. “Wrong. Should you aspire to the best chef you can be? Absolutely! That said, I spend much more time working on account receivables and in meetings than I do in the kitchen.”
You can purchase his book online or follow some selected recipes on his personal website. But it’s his Instagram page where you should really put an emphasis on.
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]]>The post Drink Up! Your Next Vacation Should Include Wine Tasting appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>While food and travel are a marriage made in heaven, you shouldn’t overlook the drinks that accompany your favorite dish. With travel restriction easing, we recommend adding wine tasting to your next vacation.
Penny Sadler’s travel and wine blog Adventures of a Carry-On, is a great resource to look into, in this regard. The blog includes Sadler’s first-hand accounts of her travels (anything from picking grapes in Barolo to exploring the Grand Cru vineyards of Alsace), alongside intimate details of tours, wineries, restaurants, and hotels.
A professional makeup artist in her day-to-day, Sadler is a student of the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (an internationally recognized certification) and continually hosts wine tastings for both private and retail customers.
Having traveled to some of the world’s most interesting wine regions, Sadler’s advice is worth your attention. Recent posts include a dive-in into different sorts of wine (in one, Sadler notes that while most people think Prosecco is like champagne, it actually isn’t. “First of all it’s made in Italy, not France,” she notes. “Second, the fermentation method which creates the bubbles is completely different. And those are just a couple of differences.”)
But of course, a good glass of wine is often paired with good company. “The best part of being a travel writer is the people I meet,” Sadler noted in a piece published on Wander With Wonder. “My biggest challenge is staying focused on the task at hand; I’m very curious and easily distracted by sparkly things.”
Visit her blog for more tips and tricks, and show her some love on Instagram.
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]]>The post Jen Hansard’s Energizing Smoothies Are Exactly What You Need appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>Not convinced yet? Jen Hansard from Simple Green Smoothies will have convinced that when it comes to your health – smoothies are a real game changer. According to Hansard, it was only when she started drinking smoothies that she realized how low in energy she once was. Soon, she went from being exhausted and feeling defeated—to being energized and empowered.
“I was nutritionally deprived and my body was unable to give me the energy that I once had,” she writes on her website. “Then I discovered green smoothies thanks to my friend… and I was instantly hooked. I started drinking at least one green smoothie a day and my energy levels soared.”
The post Jen Hansard’s Energizing Smoothies Are Exactly What You Need appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>The post This Brand and Restaurant Will Help You Maintain a Healthy Diet appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>Here at Cooking 4 All, we hope to inspire you to switch up your diet, one small step at a time. This week, we come equipped with a restaurant recommendation: Los Angeles’ Botanica. A restaurant/market turned wellness brand, Botanica inhabits both an actual space and a virtual space and includes a website and magazine.
Launched in 2017 by friends and food writers Heather Sperling and Emily Fiffer, the brand has amassed quite a fanbase over the past year. “We believe that healthful cooking can be vibrant, creative, and wildly satisfying,” they write on their website. “We believe that hospitality should be nourishing. We’re big into color and flavor; we’re not into rules. We serve food that makes you feel good.”
The duo’s restaurant serves meals that are made from all-local vegetables, fruits and dairy; a rainbow of grains and legumes; spices and vinegars from across the world; healthy fats (local and organic when possible); wild Pacific seafood, and sustainably raised meat. Refined sugars, processed foods, and products of industrial agriculture are nowhere to be seen.
“This isn’t rocket science, but eating many pounds of green things, drinking lots of water, and getting ample fats on the daily,” explained Fiffer in an interview with Golubka Kitchen, where she talked about her diet plan. “Supplements aside, being happy is the number one glow weapon. You can slather on all the oil in the world and eat well but if you’re feeling crummy it’ll show.”
“The beauty of cooking with no rules is the ability to call on any number of ingredients to make something taste more delicious,” she went on to say. “The result is a menu with dishes that are vegan, vegetarian, meaty, gluten-free, glutinous, dairy-free, yogurt-laden, etc., etc. We like to think we can make almost anyone happy—there’s something for everyone.”
Dishes include the Heirloom Melon Salad (composed of melon, sheep’s milk feta and cashew-chive sour cream), the Cherry Gateau Basque, and the tomatillo, heirloom bean, spigarello and feta shakshuka – an absolute favorite. But you don’t actually have to be in LA to enjoy what the brand has to offer. Sign up for their online publication or follow them on Instagram for a boost of energy.
The post This Brand and Restaurant Will Help You Maintain a Healthy Diet appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>The post Dive Into the Magic of Breadmaking with Alexandra Stafford appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>But purchasing good bread is one thing—making a loaf yourself is a whole other ballpark. Cookbook author and bread enthusiast, Alexandra Stafford, will teach you how it’s done from beginning to end. Her cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs, offers recipes for no-knead loaves and meals to savor every slice: a perfect guide for bakers wanting to explore the world of possibilities for making their own loaves.
According to Stafford, her passion for bread is tied to her childhood, and more specifically her mother. “I can’t imagine growing up without bread rising on the counter all the time, and eating it at every meal,” she relayed in an interview with A Way to Garden. “I didn’t really think it was anything special growing up because it was what was always around, because my mother was always baking bread.”
Following in her mother’s footsteps, Stafford grew up with a passion for cooking, and more specifically bread. Having launched her own food blog, Alexandra’s Kitchen, in 2006 she soon learned that her love for food could reach a growing audience. Her blog has since been recognized by The New York Times, Saveur, Bon Appetit, Fine Cooking, and Goop.
“I love bread,” she writes on her website. “I love eating bread. I love making bread. I love teaching people how to bake bread. I wrote a cookbook all about bread and how to use every last crumb to its full potential.”
According to Stafford, when she gets down to half a loaf of bread or a quarter of a loaf of bread, she usually stashes all those heels in the freezer, for when she’s ready to make crumbs. “When I am ready to make crumbs, I will thaw them, puree them in the food processor, spread them on a sheet pan, and then I like to dry them in the oven slowly,” she notes.
The post Dive Into the Magic of Breadmaking with Alexandra Stafford appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>The post Consider Yourself a Real Foodie? Follow Tieghan Gerard on Instagram appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>A foodie through and through, the secret ingredient to Gerard’s cooking (as cliche as it may sound) is love. According to the seasoned blogger, her recipes are inspired by the people and places she loves most, with the goal to make mealtime a happier time.
Seeing as she comes from a large family, this makes perfect sense. “I am one of seven kids, so my parents had their hands full with my brothers and me,” Gerard told All Sorts Of. “We wouldn’t eat until nine or ten at night.” Wanting to tame some of these chaotic meals, Gerard took to cooking by the age of 14.
“One night I just decided I was making dinner,” she recalls. “I think I made a Rachel Ray recipe and everyone loved it. I’ve been cooking for friends and family ever since.” The love of cooking was hence tied with this positive experience, and seeing other people’s hearty reactions made the hard work worthwhile. “I love to cook for people, seeing their reactions is so rewarding!” says Gerard.
These days, her cooking and recipes are still very much tied to family mealtimes. Gerard’s house—a converted horse barn that was designed entirely around her lifestyle—provides the perfect backdrop to her passion-turned-full-time job. “It’s where I shot my first cookbook, and where I spend my days experimenting with new recipes, photographing my creations, feeding my family, and making one giant mess in the process,” she explains.
Recent recipe highlights we’re dying to recreate include her Strawberry Pink Drink. “When everyone around me was carrying a pretty pink drink, an idea hit and the homemade ‘pink drink’ was created,” writes Gerard on her Instagram page, explaining that the drink is a version of the Starbucks favorite, but healthier and made with double the strawberry, açaí, and extra creaminess. “It’s so creamy, it’s almost milkshake-like,” she writes. “This is good you guys. trust me, make it a home.” Oh, we shall!
The post Consider Yourself a Real Foodie? Follow Tieghan Gerard on Instagram appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>The post Opening a Food Blog is No Piece of Cake! Lindsay Ostrom Will Help You Out appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>Lindsay Ostrom of Pinch of Yum is one of those food-blogger-turned-mentors. Based in Saint Paul, MN where she shares a home with her husband Bjork and their dog Sage, like most foodies, she took to blogging as a hobby (her main job being a fourth-grade teacher). But what started out as a casual hobby for nights and weekends, would blossom into a viral phenomenon.
Part of Pinch of Yum’s initial charm is it’s down-to-earth approach to cooking. The website offers a huge range of recipes that are specially designed for real, actual, every day life, with a focus on real foods and healthy recipes. And with some one million (!) followers on Instagram, the blog’s recipe for success seems to have worked.
These days, alongside their recipes, Pinch of Yum offers resources and sound advice to other aspiring food bloggers. “Over the last 10+ years of working on Pinch of Yum, we’ve learned a ton about growing and monetizing blogs,” the website reads. The site now includes resources, strategies, and advice around growing a blog and a presence online.
“For other bloggers, it’s not just a food blog, but it can be a teaching resource of how you can grow your blog,” Ostrom further explained in an interview with Hot Chocolate Hits.
Ostrom’s most important advice: don’t do it for the money. “Do it for the love of food and the love of blogging!” she told Rachel Cooks. “There is definitely money to be made, but it’s just so rare to get that right out of the gate. You need to be willing to work for free for a while, so do it for the love!”
Another good tip: invest in a good camera, or just learn the camera you have as best as you can and keep practicing. According to Ostrom, the initial hook for people is going to be the image so you might as well put some effort into it.
The post Opening a Food Blog is No Piece of Cake! Lindsay Ostrom Will Help You Out appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>The post Comfort Food At It’s Best: Follow Dennis Prescott’s Instagram Page appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>A Canadian chef and cookbook author, Prescott’s is a master when it comes to the art of deliciousness. “Deliciousness requires risk,” he remarked in an interview with Medium. “Taking risks guarantees failure while on the road to success.” A mix of high brow and lowbrow, his posts include flavour-packed lamb burgers and duck confit tacos, with mouthwatering photos that make that salad bowl you were planning for lunch look extra sad.
To enjoy Prescott’s recipes we recommend going to the source: his cookbook, titled aptly Eat Delicious. The book includes 125 recipes for your daily dose of awesome, featuring comfort food from around the globe that can be prepared by any home cook, no matter their skill level.
Indeed, Prescott’s journey to becoming a celebrated chef, might just inspire you to get cooking. A once struggling musician living in Nashville, TN, he learned how to cook by working his way through several Jamie Oliver cookbooks. Working alongside chefs in various restaurants, lead him to travel the world as a chef and ultimately become the master he is today.
“When I started, I naively thought all I’d have to focus on was food,” he says. “Wrong. Should you aspire to the best chef you can be? Absolutely! That said, I spend much more time working on account receivables and in meetings than I do in the kitchen.”
You can purchase his book online or follow some selected recipes on his personal website. But it’s his Instagram page where you should really put an emphasis on.
The post Comfort Food At It’s Best: Follow Dennis Prescott’s Instagram Page appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>The post Drink Up! Your Next Vacation Should Include Wine Tasting appeared first on Cooking 4 All.
]]>While food and travel are a marriage made in heaven, you shouldn’t overlook the drinks that accompany your favorite dish. With travel restriction easing, we recommend adding wine tasting to your next vacation.
Penny Sadler’s travel and wine blog Adventures of a Carry-On, is a great resource to look into, in this regard. The blog includes Sadler’s first-hand accounts of her travels (anything from picking grapes in Barolo to exploring the Grand Cru vineyards of Alsace), alongside intimate details of tours, wineries, restaurants, and hotels.
A professional makeup artist in her day-to-day, Sadler is a student of the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (an internationally recognized certification) and continually hosts wine tastings for both private and retail customers.
Having traveled to some of the world’s most interesting wine regions, Sadler’s advice is worth your attention. Recent posts include a dive-in into different sorts of wine (in one, Sadler notes that while most people think Prosecco is like champagne, it actually isn’t. “First of all it’s made in Italy, not France,” she notes. “Second, the fermentation method which creates the bubbles is completely different. And those are just a couple of differences.”)
But of course, a good glass of wine is often paired with good company. “The best part of being a travel writer is the people I meet,” Sadler noted in a piece published on Wander With Wonder. “My biggest challenge is staying focused on the task at hand; I’m very curious and easily distracted by sparkly things.”
Visit her blog for more tips and tricks, and show her some love on Instagram.
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