TasteOverTime Blog & Recipes

This Global Chronicle focuses on the diversity of the French cuisine from coast to coast and among borders. My recent trip presented the finest ingredients and preparations that focused on ostensibly richer recipes of the north to seemingly healthier recipes of the south. Of course, many exceptions exist for juxtaposed deliciousness! Viens voir!

Though stroke has been labeled as the “Silent Killer”, there are proactive steps that can be taken to scream its importance—especially for men over 65 years of age, with a family history of stroke, and those who are Black.

Cream soups do not have to be shunned in healthy diets. Just purée a portion of the ingredients and add them back into the soup to thicken or “crème” it. This recipe for “Crème” of Mushroom Soup uses vegetable broth, reduced-fat milk, and a puréed mixture of mushrooms and onions to create a luscious creamy texture and earthy taste.

Perhaps it’s their pastel-ish colors. Maybe it’s their cloying sweetness. And I really can’t stomach their flavored fillings which seem like such artificial caloric no-no’s. I must confess that some look like artists’ palates, as these pictured. But the buck stops there, says moi! Throughout my French travels, macarons were always prominent in most pâtisseries and concluded many of my meals. Here’s how I delt …

While older men may not look as musclebound as younger years, creating, building and preserving muscles may achieve more than appearance. Muscles may help fight diseases and the malaise that may ensue.

Garbanzo beans, also known as chickpeas or ceci beans, have an impressive amount of cholesterol lowering fiber that is helpful for lowering cholesterol and managing blood sugar. For those of you diehard meat eaters, these intoxicating orbs can be served as a side dish to help unify and uplift leaner cuts of protein. Come experience!