Connecting to Hispanic Heritage Through Food

Connecting to Hispanic Heritage Through Food

Food is a means to connect to our own culture and experience others’ cultures. Jen Bays Avis, MEd, LDN, RDN, CDE, a registered dietitian with St. Francis Medical Group, shares recipes influenced by Hispanic culture. Make this appetizer, entrée and dessert to have a...
Keep Cool and Keep the Summer Diet in Check with Gazpacho

Keep Cool and Keep the Summer Diet in Check with Gazpacho

On these sweltering days, a lot of variables come into play when we think of cooking. It must be healthy (because summer), but we also don’t want to spend time over a stove or checking on something in a hot oven. Enter gazpacho. This Spanish cold soup is essentially...
Skip the Meat But Keep the Flavor this Season

Skip the Meat But Keep the Flavor this Season

Every Friday in Lent, Catholics follow the tradition of only eating seafood or otherwise eating meatless meals as a symbolic gesture of abstinence. But whether or not you adhere to this tradition, the practice of limiting your meat consumption—especially red meat—has...