healthy parsnip & carrot soup with chef peanut

Peanut shows you how to make a delicious and super healthy parsnip & carrot soup with a ginger jalapeño base. It’s a Sunday Funday in Peanut’s kitchen, so good wine and pajamas are definitely in the mix!

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your relationship with food

Everyone needs to have a relationship with food. We need a relationship with food if we want to survive. Some have a healthy relationship with food, and others have an unhealthy relationship with food.

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how to make kale chips


Kale is a superfood packed with folid acid, vitamin K, iron & vitamin B6. It’s easy to eat these healthy greens when they’re dried and accented with good quality Italian olive oil and sea salt.

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healthy ham & bean soup

This soup was super easy! I made it a few days after Christmas with all of the leftover ham we had. In a large pot, add:

-vegetable stock or broth
-cubed cooked leftover ham
-pre-soaked (overnight) dry cannelloni beans
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peanut & ricky’s NYE party

Happy 2014! Ricky had to work in the ER at 6am on Jan 1st, so we threw our very own NYE party last night…at our lovely home…just the two of us…with some kickass steak…and live lobster…and I still got dressed … Read more

innovative dinner for two

I found some random things in the fridge and freezer. Next, I started drinking this delicious bottle of white wine that I just bought at the Chelsea
Market wine shop. Voilá! This is what I came up with. A new … Read more

roasted acorn squash with quinoa & cauliflower pilaf

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My fiancé thought we should eat more veggies. Last week, I bought a bunch of random vegetables at the farmers market. Wanted to see what I could do with them. He said vegetables, I made tonight’s dinner vegetarian. Put that … Read more

this is what homemade from scratch looks like

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I’ve been tackling some different types of ravioli each week. I assemble these hand-crafted masterpieces for private weekly clients, personal training clients, and ONLY if there’s extra, my own family.

I dabbled in them a bit while in New York … Read more