Homemade Ranch Dressing

Homemade Ranch Dressing

You love that Ranch dressing taste, but when you examine the label of commercial Ranch dressing, you’ll see the first ingredient is cheap, industrially-processed seed oil. Yuk! And a whole lot more. Take a look. You can have your Ranch and eat it, too, if you take just a moment to make it yourself. As…

Italian Salad

Italian Salad

Serves 2 INGREDIENTS For the salad 2 cups torn fresh leaf lettuce (or your choice) 4 Roma tomatoes, stemmed and coarsely chopped 20 whole green olives (or your choice) 20 mild pepperoncini (pickled pepper) rings 1/2 small red onion,  peeled and sliced 2 tablespoons grated parmigiano-reggiano 8 to 10 anchovies (optional, but delicious!) For the…

Carrot Ginger Soup

Carrot Ginger Soup

In cold and flu season, keeping your vitamin A status up is most important. There’s plenty in liver (paté for instance) but there’s a ton of vitamin A precursor (beta-carotene) in carrots. Each serving of this soup provides over 16,000IU of vitamin A as beta-carotene in an ‘easy to swallow’ form! Delicious! Serves 4 to…

Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes

By special reader request, here is a tasty sweet treat, updated from the original recipe by Barbara Witt (Protein Power, Warner 1996) Makes 12 INGREDIENTS 1 large graham cracker, finely crushed 1 extra-large egg ¼ cup sugar, Truvia Blend, or Splenda Blend ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened 2 tablespoons semisweet…