Archive for October 2010

Are your kitchen cabinets and shelves bursting with paper scraps containing every healthy recipe you’ve ever collected or concocted? Maybe you’re storing them all in your mental Rolodex? Why not take all of this great information and organize it in a cookbook to share with others? Why not turn it into a potential profit center for your business?Len Glassman, fitness entrepreneur and owner of Personal Best Training & Pilates Center in Garwood, New Jersey, has set up a Web-based product ($79.95) that gives you the tools you need to become a self-published cookbook author.

Often misspelled, but hard to mistake for another fruit—especially when cut open to reveal the juicy red treasure inside—the beautiful pomegranate is enjoying its seasonal bounty now through January. While many have hopped on the pomegranate juice bandwagon of recent years, most people hesitate to buy the whole fruit and soil their hands (clothes, kitchen walls, pets, etc.) with it in the seed-harvesting process. It can be fun, though, so don’t miss this year’s window to try the whole fruit in new ways.

In November and December, the crazy pace we were on all summer and autumn seems to slow down, and the harvesting of fresh, local ingredients slows along with it. The cold snap of Old Man Winter’s whip is starting to chill us in most of North America, and our palates crave heartier fare to match the onset of shorter, colder, darker days. Think soups, stews, braised meats and poultry, roasted root vegetables and late fall fruits (folded with love into yummy tarts and pies). Here are the seasonal foods to keep an eye out for this month and in December.