At ChefLaLa.com, internationally known chef and nutritionist Chef LaLa provides you with a variety of healthy lifestyle tips, including tips on weight loss, time saving solutions, date night ideas, entertaining ideas, cookbooks and a collection of light and healthy, quick and easy recipes that almost anyone will enjoy making… and eating!
Six Fresh Storage Tips for Popular Fruits and Vegetables:
1. Tomatoes should remain on the counter to maintain their texture and flavor. Refrigeration may turn tomatoes mushy. Place tomatoes in a bowl lined with a paper towel, at room temperature. Do not keep them near heat sources or direct sunlight.
Nutritional Facts
Calories, 250, Fat, 9.6g, Saturated, 1.2g , Monounsaturated, 4.7g, Polyunsaturated, 3g, Cholesterol, 21mg, Sodium, 179mg, Carbohydrates, 31.7g, Dietary Fiber, 5.6g, Protein, 10g
A Thanksgiving menu generally consists of the traditional turkey, stuffi ng, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and corn. Although this is a fi ne menu to serve to your guests, you may want to add a few additional Latin inspired items or change up your recipes like adding mango salsa to your cranberry sauce to spice up your menu.
Internationally known Chef LaLa is featured on the Winter 2011 cover and, inside the magazine, healthy eating and exercise advice — and the recipes.
“You’d better be hungry when Laura Diaz, better known as Chef LaLa, is in the kitchen. …this petite Latina from east Los Angeles doesn’t do small.”
Chef LaLa joined First Lady Maria Shriver in Watts California for the California School Garden Network
In Cookin’ Good, Chef LaLa shares her personal journey and fabulous recipes for Diabetes Focus Magazine.