Healthy Cooking & Tips

The posts in this section focus on cooking techniques, tips and tricks to amp up taste while dialing down fat and calories. After working in many New York City restaurant kitchens for years, it's now time to share those Skinny Chef secrets!

Superfoods for Yoga Fans

I’m always looking for ways to try new and exciting ingredients that also boost nutrition. You might have heard about some of these amazing superfoods, or nutrient-dense foods, but now let’s take a close look on how they can balance your nutrition and how to enjoy them in delicious ways.

7 Natural Superfood Remedies

Superfoods are an amazing way to nutritionally charge your diet but they also work equally well as home remedies. From everyday little aches and pains, they give your immunity a little boost or sooth a sore tummy.

Roasted Lemon Asparagus

Asparagus pokes through the cool dirt of early spring though it can be found in grocery stores year-round. Look for the thick stalks for this recipe, or if you are using pencil-thin asparagus decrease the cooking time by 2-3 minutes.

Healthy Cooking Kitchen Equipment

If you’re looking to outfit your kitchen with the best healthy cooking tools or just learning the basics of healthy cooking, then this post is for you!

Superfood Smoothie Guide

Smoothies are excellent low-cal meal replacement that you can whip up in 5 minutes — a quick fix to “reset” your body after a holiday splurge. Be sure you build them the correct way…

Sausage & Broccoli Rabe Pasta

In this video of my new HEALTHY CHEATS video series, I’ll take a gourmet pasta dish and sneak in some healthier alternative ingredients without sacrificing any of the flavor.

The Secret to Quitting Junk Foods

I know from personal experience that the love affair for junk foods and unhealthy foods can run pretty deep, which is why it can be so tough for people to kick the junk food habit for good!

How to Cook with Hemp

Hemp seeds (also called “hemp hearts”) are the delicious nutty, highly nutritive shelled seeds of the plant. To cook with hemp seeds, use them as you would any other tasty seed… but check out my tasty recipes!