With Valda Ford, of Sex is Not for Sissies, March 16, 2020
Podcast Appearance: Family Meals – the Secret of Great Nutrition
With Pat Iyer, of Legal Nurse March 9, 2020 In this episode, Pat Iyer interviews Barbara Baron, a “Family Meals Dietitian.” She shares her expertise about how to not only shop for and cook nutritious and easy-to-make foods but how to make the preparation and dining experience one that brings families closer together. You…
Taking the Guilt out of Store-Bought Rotisserie Chicken
Barbara’s Note: Make sure to read all the way to the bottom where you can enter to receive a free copy of the most comprehensive Rotisserie Chicken cookbook I’ve seen! Rotisserie chicken is a chicken dish that is cooked on a rotisserie, using direct heat in which the chicken is placed next to the heat…
Grandma’s Sweet Savory Spicy Escarole for Escarole Pie
Grandma Roses’s Sweet Savory Spicy Escarole for Escarole Pie Escarole is a hearty green leafy vegetable. High in folic acid, fiber, and vitamins A and K, and minerals like manganese, copper and potassium. Escarole can be eaten raw or cooked. Serve as first dish –escarole and cannellini bean soup or raw in salads. Growing up…
Podcast Appearance: Be your own MVP with Moderation Variety and Planning
With Valda Ford, of Sex is Not for Sissies, November 4, 2019 It’s not easy eating healthy. For many of us, nutrition often takes a back seat to juggling the demands of family, work and life. The idea of pulling together a balanced meal can seem exhausting — or just plain impossible Barbara Baron will…
Family Meals Nourish Confidence, Conversation and Compassion
Amid September’s back-to-school days with sports activities in full swing, my guess “what parents really, really, really want (well maybe) is to sit down to at least one meal together as a family! According to a 2017 report of Family Meals Institute (FMI), Americans want, first and foremost, to eat “at home together” and secondly…
Simple Butternut Squash Soup
Simple Butternut Squash Soup Ingredients: Olive Oil, 1-2 tablespoons Shallots, 2 small or one large Sweet Vidalia Onion, one medium or half of a large onion Garlic, one small clove, smashed Butternut Squash, 1 ½ pounds fresh, seeds removed, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes – Or – buy pre-cut squash fresh from produce section…
Individual Italian Squash Blossoms
Zucchini Squash Flower Blossoms If you have a garden overflowing with zucchini or Italian squash (goo-GOOTZ), you probably have see some beautiful golden flower blossoms! Please don’t toss-out these EDIBLE flowers before giving them a try! Pick them fresh, remove stem, stamen, pistil and rinse under cold water and pat-dry! You can add them to…
Italian Summer Squash- GooGOOTZ
GooGootz: Grandma’s Italian Summer Squash Recipe Ingredients: 2-Italian Squash – Cucuzza (long Italian summer squash aka GoogGOOTZ) about 2 feet long 5 -Potatoes, large – Russet variety works well 1-Onion, large 8-ounce can, Italian tomato sauce. 2-ounces, Olive Oil 3 ½- cups, Water (you can substitute with chicken broth, low sodium) Instructions: Peel the potatoes….
Summer Squash Garden Memories: ‘Goo-GOOTZ’
If you are Italian, grew up with one, or know an Italian you may be familiar with the Italian summer squash called cucuzza (Ko-Koo-tza) or as my grandmother would call it “goo-GOOTZ” – slang for cucuzza! As a child, it was fun to see “goo-GOOTZ”, a gourd, grow in my grandmother’s garden taking on different…
