Cara’s Cuisine: Gingerbread Cookies
The campus has been decorated with (some) care, Christmas music fills the apartments and residence halls, teachers are constantly dropping the f-word (“finals,” of course), and there are about a dozen...
Cara’s Cuisine: Turkey Leftovers
If your family is anything like mine, you either ordered a few too many pounds of turkey or your local butcher decided to “oh-so-generously” raise your turkey order by six pounds .. for the third year in a...
Cara’s Cuisine: Halloween Cake Pops
Forget about midterms, the crazy weather and homework — it’s Halloween on Tuesday! Halloween is a holiday based on various pagan historical traditions where some believed they could hide their children...
Cara’s Cuisine: Sweet Potato Fries and Burgers
Sweet Potatoes can be bought in grocery stores throughout the year and because of this most people don’t group them with other fall produce like apples, butternut squash and pumpkins. Yet, all of these...
Cara’s Cuisine: The Only Pumpkin Spice You’re Getting
Welcome to the first week of Fall! Time to say hello to colorful leaves and lavishly scented candles (not on campus, of course), unpack those comfy sweaters, knit hats and long jackets, and start enjoying the...
Cara’s Cuisine: Baked Chicken Cutlets and Chicken Parmesan
Chicken cutlets can be found as part of numerous staple meals served throughout the United States. Needing only a few ingredients, they are easy to make, provide lots of leftovers and taste delicious with...
Cooking with Colleen: Apple Cake
The advent of fall brings one of my favorite activities of all time: apple picking. Although I can no longer eat the delectable apple cider donuts from my local apple orchard, the caramel apple that awaits me...
Cooking with Colleen: Twice Baked Potatoes
Potatoes are a key component of just about every meal for me. As an easy-to-digest starch, they are an easy source of carbohydrates needed for a balanced meal. Twice baked potatoes are no exception. This is my...
Cooking with Colleen: Roasted Salmon
One of my favorite movie quotes of all time is “Fish are friends, not food” from Finding Nemo. Most fish, in particular cod, salmon and haddock, are made up of an unsaturated fat called omega-3 fatty acid....
Nutrition 101: Stir fry with Stags in the Kitchen
Last week, I was invited to attend the “Stags in the Kitchen” program hosted by Sodexo’s Culinary Director Jacqui Lombard and Sodexo’s Executive Catering Chef Jim Turner. I observed a few of...