Start eating healthier without much fuss. Its long past that resolution moment where we get motivated to improve our health. By the time we get one month into the year, that party is over baby. We just go back to whatever habits we have ingrained in our same ol’ lives. It’s hard. Maybe too hard.…
Author: Kathryn Hilger Kingen
Award-winning food blogger, Kathryn Hilger Kingen is Salty's co-owner along with husband Gerald Robert Kingen who founded this seafood restaurant group. Seattle's Eastside magazine 425 readers voted Kathryn Food Blogger of the Year 2015 and 2014! (Read more on 425 Magazine.com). Kathryn has a degree in Nutrition from the University of Washington. Kathryn Kingen has been blogging about nutrition since the early days of Red Robin - see her first "blog" (they weren't called blogs back then) on "What's the Stuff on Roughage?" You'll want to read it for the recipe Oat Bran Muffins.
Mussel Muscles
The science of muscles and exercise is a fascinating topic. As I dug into this season of clams, mussels and oysters, I found that they taught me some mighty lessons. Mollusk muscles are built on the same principles as ours. Mollusks have muscles (one or two) located inside the shell that are called adductors. They…
The Pepper Upper
Whether it be good old green, colorful sweet baby bells, Anaheim, Jalapeno or even the exciting Hatch, pepper season is upon us. Like its cousin the tomato, we wait all summer for these bulbous, short, long, tapered and contorted characters to peak. Now it’s time to take your pick. These babies come in all sorts…
Flower Power
I remember the sixties, my record player spinning “Groovin on a Sunday Afternoon”, drawing paisleys and writing balloon shaped names on my school Pee-Chee. I made big puffy paper flowers that hung on my wall right next to my “I do my thing, you do your thing” poster. Oh yeah, even back then I knew…
My Avocado Alibi
When it comes to good “guac” I have absolutely no will power and a good green smear on morning toast just makes my day. This tempting fruit, yes fruit, is as smooth as silk and feels incredibly, indulgent. I used to “unsuccessfully” try to avoid eating avocados because I thought they were fattening and silly…
Get the Cure
There is much we want to hold onto in life, like our health and fond memories with family and friends, but what about the savory foods of summer? Just like a great snapshot or a story told over and over again, there are ways we can preserve those precious delicacies. Let’s take salmon for instance,…
Bitter is Better
Sweet, salty, sour, savory and BITTER are the five tastes of food. Do you have a favorite? I bet you would vote for sweet or salty. Sure, sour and savory are delicious too but I say bitter is best. Bitter is the taste that we seem to love the least, in fact in many cases…