by kathryn matthews | Jan 18, 2023 | Mind-Body Connection, Weight Management
Is losing weight a top-of-mind health goal for you? You are not alone. Your hope to lose weight has kept the weight loss and weight management market—companies like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, Herbalife, Golds’ Gym, etc.—raking in BIG bucks—at a...
by kathryn matthews | Jan 5, 2023 | Animal Protein
I love duck in all its fatty, succulent gamey glory! Cast iron skillet-seared duck breast is my favorite fast-and-easy weekday dinner for one. My favorite purveyor for duck breast is an advocate of natural and sustainable farming practices, to which I have local...
by kathryn matthews | Dec 29, 2022 | Animal Protein
Shortly after graduating from The French Culinary Institute in the late 1990s, a friend and I decided to hold a Burgundian food and wine-themed dinner party at her Manhattan townhouse. She had worked in the wine trade and knew her way around Burgundian wines. We came...
by kathryn matthews | Dec 12, 2022 | Gluten-Free Baking
A little goes a long way with this rustic blackberry jam cake. Dense. Savory and sweet (but not too sweet). Corn grits give this jam cake density and weight and an unexpected (and pleasing) crunch. My husband who grew up in the Deep South likened this jam cake to a...
by kathryn matthews | Dec 12, 2022 | Gluten-Free Baking
When I asked my husband what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday, he surprised me with his answer: “blackberry jam cake”. For him, blackberry jam cake is a potent nostalgia food. My husband was born and raised in the south, and his late grandmother (affectionately...
