January 9th, 2017 
Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Fitness Food, Salads & Salad Dressings 
Comments Off on Fresh Banana Cilantro Dressing Picture Book Recipe 
Yep, you bet! Bananas and cilantro together in a dressing – and it goes great on salads, over cooked vegetables – any way you’d use any other dressing.
The hardest part of making this dressing is peeling the skins off fresh garlic cloves – always a pain, though crushing the cloves first by pressing them under the side of a wide-bladed (chef’s) knife as shown here…
April 28th, 2016 Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Fitness Food, Salads & Salad Dressings Comments Off on Fresh Garlic Ginger Salad Dressing Picture Book Recipe 
Not too long ago, I showed how to grate or chop fresh ginger and then how to make a fresh low-fat kefir salad dressing packed not only with full-on flavor but also packed with anti-inflammatory ingredients that included ground turmeric, mustard, apple cider vinegar, ground flaxseeds, ground black pepper, and honey. Great stuff!
The fresh garlic ginger salad dressing you see here is a little twist on the fresh low-fat kefir salad dressing in that it substitutes kefir (a fermented milk, yogurt-like drink that’s packed with beneficial – or good for you – bacteria) with olive oil and also adds freshly chopped cilantro.
Here are the ingredients you need to make fresh garlic ginger salad dressing.
Click any picture on this page for a complete, easy-to-follow step-by-step picture book recipe.
April 5th, 2016 Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Blog, Salads & Salad Dressings Comments Off on Fresh Low Fat Kefir Salad Dressing Picture Book Recipe 
Here’s a great way to substitute freshly grated ginger and freshly chopped garlic for the powdered version of those two ingredients to create a fresh low fat kefir salad dressing that’s as fully flavorful as it is full of anti-inflammatory ingredients. Great stuff all around!
Here’s a picture of the ingredients.
January 20th, 2016 Blog, Salads & Salad Dressings Comments Off on Instant Nonfat Yogurt Salad Dressing Picture Book Recipe 
Last post showed how to make an easy to make, fully flavorful instant salad dressing using only 5 ingredients: garlic powder, mustard, ground black pepper, vinegar, and oil. Here’s an easy variation on that dressing that changes only one ingredient by substituting oil with plain nonfat yogurt. (See the nonfat plain Greek yogurt to oil nutrition fact label comparison below and note that a serving of nonfat plain Greek yogurt is 1 cup (8 ounces) while a serving of oil is 1 tablespoon (1/2 ounce). That means that 1 cup (8 ounces) of oil contains 1920 calories and 224 grams of fat as compared to the cup (8 ounces) of nonfat yogurt shown below containing 130 calories and 0 grams of fat. Though any nonfat plain yogurt will work to make this dressing, I like using nonfat plain Greek yogurt for this dressing for its high protein content, thick texture, and rich flavor.)
