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Curiosities about eating healthy in Brazil

Hello everyone! My name is Nana, and I am publishing my very first post here at HellohealthyCooking . Yay! I couldn’t be happier about this, especially because I will share with you a little something about my beloved Brazil – my home country. Last April, my family and I went for a trip to Brazil…

The Earth is round, but these meatballs are flat!

BLE friendly; Low carb; Low sodium; gluten-free Most of you have made meatballs at some point and time in your life, perhaps they even bring back fond memories of family and friends. In our house, they are considered comfort food on those dark and windy winter days. Most recipes are pretty standard, usually a combo…

Veggie frittata, a weeknight savior.

Getting dinner on the table every night can be a challenge, you know it, I know it, heck even “they” know it. This is especially true when you have diet restrictions, and when you don’t like eating the same old things every other day. I try to vary our meals, and we do plan each…

Honey, what’s for dinner?

BLE -Friendly; Low carb; Low sodium Each family has a different way of dealing with meal time, sometimes chaos rules and for others it’s by the book with no substitutions! Whatever it may be, you still need to buy groceries and set up some sort of menu. In our home it tends to be a…

Top O’ the mornin’ to ya!

BLE friendly, low carb, gluten free So this might be after the fact, but I wanted to share with you a new way to do St. Patty’s day. This year I wanted to try a different technique when it came to our St. Patricks day feast. Besides the smaller portions and lower calories, I wanted…

Welcome everyone!

Greetings and salutations! If you are here it is because you are interested in cooking and eating healthy. Now, let me take a moment to tell you why I am here. Last year, after seeing photos of my wife and me on vacation, we knew that we really needed to make some changes in our…

Green Tomato Soup

BLE friendly; Vegan; Gluten-free; Vegetarian The end of summer, days grow shorter, and the leaves are starting their annual transformation. Soon, the long lazy afternoons will give way to bundled up walks, and scrapping ice off the windshield. But never fear, I have something to make it all a little easier to…err, stomach. Soup! Ah,…

Dutch Oven Pork Shoulder

BLE friendly; gluten-free; lowcarb; low sodium If you were to ask me the one thing I couldn’t give up if I tried being vegetarian, my first response would be pork. Whether it is a shoulder, tenderloin, sausage or bacon, it really is my meat of choice. I love preparing it, and my family loves eating it!…

Spicy Chorizo and Vegetable Soup

BLE friendly; Low carb; Gluten-free; Vegetarian option; Vegan option There are few things I enjoy eating more than soup, one of those though is sausage. Hey, let’s combine them into one glorious meal! Any sausage you can name, I probably have tried it, and that includes meatless sausage. I suppose you could say I am…

But what do I really need???

To say I have a bit of a fixation with anything you find in a kitchen would be a correct assessment, maybe even an understatement. I can’t help myself. I am fascinated by kitchen gear. But what do we really need? I mean there has to be a limit on what we cram into our cooking…