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!

Healthy Eating Tips: Freezer Refresh

Revamping what’s in your freezer can result in huge health benefits – in my latest video on AOL, I share smart staple swaps to keep your family well-fed and feeling fantastic.

Delicious Turkey Corn-Dog Bites

Corn dogs are one of those amusement park goodies I crave, smelling the combo of meat against a hot corn filling, with juicy meat on a stick – all pretty irresistible by anyone’s standards. Check out my latest creation, delicious Turkey Corn-Dog bites…

Breakfast for Dinner

Ever get a wicked craving for eggs and bacon in the evening? You can make breakfast for dinner and savor all those filling breakfast and brunch foods, but if you do it smart there is no reason to skimp on the nutrition!

Your Inner Skinny

Want to find why attitude has such a big affect on the way you look and feel physically? Aimed at changing self-defeating attitudes along with self-destructive eating habits, ‘Your Inner Skinny’ by Joy Bauer does just that! It covers every detail critical to the transformation process to having healthy habits that can you keep for a lifetime.

Pick The Right Party Food

This is the season for sweets and treats, so I am happy to share with you my tips for healthy holiday snacks. Check out three of my treats in the December 2009 issue of Seventeen magazine…

Four Fast Tomato Sauces

What’s the key to a quick and tasty, light tomato sauce? It’s not sleight of hand – it all has to do with the way you cook your ingredients! Simple tomato sauces are so easy to make and they can taste so much better than the jarred, store-bought alternatives.

How To Make Poppy Seed Roll

Dessert rolls, also called ‘Swiss rolls,’ are cakes or pastries of yeast bread with one or more fillings, either poppy seed or fruit. While still delicious and satisfying, these desserts rely more on texture, flavors and aromas rather than on high amounts of fat and sugar.

Spice Up Your Life

Today, I tested this garlic rice recipe from ‘Spice Up Your Life the Flexitarian Way’ – a new cookbook by Bindu Grandhi. The dish is spicy, easy to make, and just plain good, much like many of the other unique, tasty recipes that are appropriate for both vegetarians and people who enjoy lean meat and fish…