Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

As a child, I always loved going to my best friend’s house because her parents would take us out to eat for every meal. I knew that spending the night at her house meant we were going to wake up, go to the local deli where I would order a massive ham and cheese omelette, eat it all, and then drive...

MomsRising Together

Amanda Ryan

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

This recipe was originally published in my blog, Presley’s Pantry . I started making this simple salsa many moons ago, as a fast tasty sauce for my tacos. Just a handful of ingredients and a few minutes and you have the ultimate salsa. I love the simplicity of the chile de arbol and tomato...

MomsRising Together

Nicole Presley

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

In many African-American families, holiday meals include sweet potatoes or yams…and often they’re prepared simmering in butter, brown and white sugar, and possibly even marshmallows. In other words, fat, sugar and more sugar. This type of preparation probably negates the incredible nutritional...

MomsRising Together

Jasmine Ratliff

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

This recipe originally appeared on the Muy Bueno Cookbook blog , which I publish with my mother and sister. The warm weather is a long ways away and there is nothing I enjoy more than frolicking in the sun and less time in the kitchen, at the hot stove or oven. In the summer I love to experiment...

MomsRising Together

Veronica Gonzalez-Smith

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

This article originally appeared in my blog, Non-Toxic Kids . You can find more tips for safer, greener, and healthier eating in my ebook, Eat Non-Toxic: a manual for busy parents . Is there nothing kids love more than macaroni and cheese? Such lovely melted goodness, especially the homemade kind...

MomsRising Together

Katy Farber

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

Every year, without fail, on talk shows, in magazines, and even among friends and family, the holidays provide fodder for the same lament: how are we to be healthy during a season that holds eating – particularly foods high in calories and sugar – at its core? And every year as I hear this common...

MomsRising Together

Juliet Sims

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

It was late summer, fall was approaching. You could tell from the bushels of sweet, crisp, apples for sale in the Eastern Market (stacks of them in the same formation they were a hundred years ago). We meet on the bustling street corner in front of Cost Plus wine shop, our learning kitchen perched...

MomsRising Together

Leander Johnson

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

The food we eat is as critically important as the air we breathe. That is why I made the documentary film, Soul Food Junkies. It is time that we start to have honest conversations about our food, the rising obesity crisis, and the negative impacts on the health of our families. What better time to...

MomsRising Together

Byron Hurt

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

The country is getting ready to enter prime food time: Christmas! Full of cakes, pies, meats, sauces, heartburn, heart disease, and obesity. Yea... I love it. My mom always used to say that if you're going to have it, meaning sweets and heavy foods, have it in its entirety with no substitutes. She...

MomsRising Together

Alison Crockett

Food! Blog Carnivals

December 6, 2012

As a small-scale organic farmer who believes in the grass-roots power of the local food movement, I find Michelle Obama’s food activism inspiring. When I heard about her reforms to public school lunches, of course I thought it was a step in the right direction. Just a step, mind you: ultimately, I’...

MomsRising Together