Overnight Baked Blueberry French Toast Marinate Time: 12 hours    Prep Time: 20 minutes    Cook Time: 60 minutes    Total Time: 13 hours and 20 minutes 8 servings The beauty of this baked French toast is that you can get it all ready the night before, so you just need to assemble and bake it in the morning.  I [...]

Last weekend for my birthday I asked my family to join me in a neighborhood cleanup of the local park and stream where we walk our dogs every day. We collected a trash bag full of candy wrappers, plastic bags, and countless Styrofoam and paper coffee cups that people had either tossed or that had [...]

  I admit, like many I struggle to find time for a healthy breakfast for both me and the kids.  School busses screech up to our corner before 7:00, which leaves little time for a leisurely bowl of cereal over the sports pages or comics. When thinking about filling breakfasts for our active kids, I [...]

I love granola, but usually it is so high in sugar and calories that it’s better suited to be a dessert than a healthy meal. That’s why I’m so excited to have found, and to share with you, Seven Sundays Muesli. Like granola, muesli, a popular cereal in Europe, is a balanced combination of all-natural [...]

                ABC (Apple-Bacon-Cheddar) Frittata Your family is going to love this remarkable frittata from my friend Michelle Stern’s delightful  cookbook, The Whole Family Cookbook. Michelle is a cooking and science teacher in Northern California and a passionate advocate for enjoying healthy local foods. We love this combination of [...]

                          An Eggland’s Best Recipe Contest Finalist!!   When my family traveled in Israel last year, we were astounded by the endless array of beautiful, healthy and creative salads, even at breakfast. Here I’ve recreated one of our favorites that we enjoyed at Israel’s [...]

                      It took me a few attempts, but I finally made the strata of my dreams.  Recipe tester Alexandra Taylor said, “Even my spinach hating son ate a piece and gave it a thumbs-up.”  In case you aren’t familiar with it, strata is an Italian [...]