Archive for Category: "$10 Culinary"

Frankenstein Italian Vegetable Pasta Crockpot Soup Recipe

Frankenstein Soup Cooked By Shawna Coronado

Today it is a cold and rainy summer’s day and I have a miserable cold/flu thing that’s slapped me down hard like a professional wrestler. The only thing I can concentrate on is the next cup of hot tea and the repeating thought that I feel like death. What I need is a good soup [...]

Best Guacamole Recipe Ever!

Guacamole A La Michael

When I flew out to Denver, Colorado this winter to speak at TEDx, I stayed at Dafna (See photo with me) and Michael Jenet’s home. They are both close friends, amazing people, and together run the Journey Institute which is a non-profit organization bent on helping people make a difference in the world. Please go [...]

Which Organic Chicken Broth Tastes Best?

Chicken Broth Review

Discovery: Foodies are broth crazy. It’s true – after I published the beef broth review I was surprised at the number of requests from readers for a chicken broth review. Use broth instead of water in soups, while cooking rice, or as a delightful way to add flavor to mashed potatoes. My favorite way to [...]

8 Cup Giddyup — Yucatan-Style Beef Vegetable Soup Recipe

Beef vegetable soup in bowl

Nothing better to get your giddyup on then a bowl of creatively delicious soup for a cold winter’s day. Using some of my favorite flavors from the Yucatan, 1 lb of beef stew meat ($5), 8 cups of random vegetables ($4.50), and some beef broth ($3), I have created a culinary masterpiece of Mexican flavored [...]

Simple Tomato Soup Recipe and a Chipotle Clothing Contest

Tomato Soup simmering

Perhaps simple food needs to be redefined. Simple food should be fresh, with only a few ingredients, and easy to prepare or healthy to eat. I once joined a cooking class and the chef taught us how to make this challenging tomato soup. There was a lot of complexity to it – we used canned [...]

Which Beef Broth Tastes Better?

Beef Broth Taste Test Shawna Coronado

Several weeks ago I published one of my favorite Chicken Marsala recipes of all time. I placed a photo on the post of Campbell’s Beef Broth and there was a general outcry that I should be using an organic or non-gmo broth instead. I am not an extremist and try to use organic and non-gmo [...]

Get Healthy in 2013 With Fresh Veggies and SELF Magazine’s #13for13 Healthy Hangout Tip Event

Broccoli tomato cucumber cilantro salad

New Years Resolutions are being touted all over this interweb thing. You know, unrealistic ones like, “I’m going to make a million dollars this year AND lose 100 pounds AND get a new life.” The real secret to succeeding with a New Years Resolution is to start small and make it a habit. Losing weight, [...]

Avocado Salad Recipe and A Cool New Avocado Slicer

Avocado Slicer

Avocados. They are either the most delicious treat from heaven or the spawn from hell because I would eat an entire avocado every day of the year if I could. I love them, drool over them, and crave them. Yep. I have the avocado addiction BAD and there is no cure. Each avocado provides 20 [...]

Best Chicken Marsala Recipe on Earth

Kids serving up chicken marsala

Love comes in many forms and without a doubt this recipe is filled with it. In fact, I like to call this recipe my little secret weapon of love – perfect to get boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and children (mine are loading their plates above) to do anything you might like them to do. Need the [...]

Post Holiday Comfort Food Pot Roast with Garlic and Cauliflower

Roast with Garlic Cauliflower

You survived the holidays – whew!  Whether you had to endure preparing a meal for 42 distant relatives or perhaps reined in drunk Aunt Betty’s attempts at hula-hooping, you are a superstar. And you are DONE. Now it is time for some serious comfort food which is high in deliciousness but low on the fat [...]