In search of a Christmas breakfast that you can prep in advance and feed a crowd? Consider simple baked eggs that taste and smell like pizza! To keep this dish festive, roasted tomatoes and sautéd kale serve as the main components to highlight the colors of the season. Don’t like either? Swap in spinach or swiss chard for kale and roasted peppers in place of tomatoes. The cheese in the baked eggs is also adaptable to taste preference and availability. I highly recommend using a combination of a sharp cheese, like cheddar or fontina, with a mild creamy cheese like mozzarella. Serve the eggs with a simple salad, berries, toast, and shiitake bacon and you’ve got a simple and delicious holiday breakfast!
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Meal prep is an essential tool for anyone looking to eat healthily and to save money while managing a busy lifestyle. It is a key component that I always stress when counseling clients. While juggling culinary school at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, maintaining Crunchy Radish, and working on some exciting new projects, I have been leaning more and more on meal prep as my foundation for keeping healthy and well balanced. To help curate some upcoming posts on meal prep, I called on my very good friend, culinary producer at the Rachael Ray show, and all star meal prep-er, Jeanette Donnarumma, for her tips and recipes on meal prepping. First up, breakfast!
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It is the day after Thanksgiving! Overindulged a bit? Don't beat yourself up. Get right back on track today with a simple and clean nourishing frittata loaded with protein and plenty of greens - but first, go get your sneakers on and get moving!
Read morezucchini and cherry tomato frittata
Are you on the continual pursuit for convenient and simple breakfasts? Then this frittata is for you. Loaded with protein and vegetables, a frittata is the perfect "make ahead" dish that can be enjoyed warm, cold, or at room temperature. A frittata also serves as the perfect vehicle to utilize any leftover vegetables. Here summer fresh tomatoes and zucchini are featured, but most vegetables would work well. Impress a crowd at a weekend brunch or simply make for yourself and repurpose for a few meals throughout the week.
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The decision to eat animal protein is a personal choice. If you do, it is essential to be a conscious consumer - not only to think about where your protein is sourced, from a humane perspective, but also for health purposes. Selecting animal protein that has not been injected with hormones, antibiotics, or given feed rich with genetically modified organisms are all essential to consider in addition to the quality of the animal's life. Ultimately, what has entered into the animal's body will enter yours.
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