Are dinner doldrums getting you down?

One of the comments I most often hear from new personal chef clients is that they are bored to death with the 4 or 5 “go-to” meals they prepare every week. And quite frankly, who wouldn’t be bored silly with that? For some folks, branching out is nearly impossible because they lack the skills (or the interest) to prepare new foods. For example, I recently roasted asparagus for a client – who told me that

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Spring Cleaning Your Diet

I always feel badly for thrift stores at this time of year because they are over run with last year’s too-tight sweaters and skinny jeans that were meant to fit some well intentioned soul on the newest fad diet. Let’s be honest here. Whether you are a size 4 or a size 14 – for heaven’s sake – stop attempting to wear skinny jeans! They make everyone look horrible – not skinny. They were a

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The Dirty Dozen and The Clean 15

As you may already know, I’m a big proponent of eating as organically as possible.  The following list of produce items came from a friend who does the same.  Basically, it’s a list of the items one should always buy organically and then another list of produce that you can “get by with” buying non-organically and not suffer too much.  As fresh produce is becoming more and more in season, this is an easy list

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