This bowl full of vine-ripened, succulent tomato and fresh crisp cucumber, bell pepper, and red onion and briny, tangy feta tossed in sumptuous olive oil and balsamic vinegar is as satisfying as any meal.

Toast bread. Layer sliced avocado. Layer smoked salmon. Sprinkle Everything but the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend from Trader Joe’s. Eat up!

Uncooked zoodles are tasty, crunchy, interesting, and fun. Our favorite way to have them is raw mixed with fresh pesto.

This turkey sausage sweet potato spinach soup is amazing. The red pepper provides a kick that the sweet potato mellows out. It delivers bold and rich flavor. Yet, it’s also healthy.

Followers of G@H know that we enjoy cooking and eating. When obligations limit our time to do the former, though, we must still do the latter. Making a good meal fast isn’t easy. Or, at least, it wasn’t easy until we discovered the Lekue Steam Case. This silicone contraption steams meats and vegetables in their own juices. We toss in Brussels sprouts, a handful of dried cranberries, some salt and pepper, and a touch of butter. We microwave that for four minutes. We add a salmon filet. We microwave everything for another minute and forty seconds. And, dinner is ready. Healthy, delicious, quick dinner. Skeptical? Behold the photographic evidence. The Lekue Steam Case sells for $30. You can find it at retailers like Sur La Table or online at Amazon.com. We at G@H thank Lekue for providing a sample Steam...

It’s early in 2014. Healthy living still preoccupies people, including us at G@H.  But, really, our interest stretches beyond the New Year. Although we aren’t old, we’re getting older.  We think more about our food. We try to eat better—mostly because we don’t want to buy new pants but also because we see food differently. We appreciate food as fuel. The right food boosts our energy, improves our focus and keeps us, well, alive. Don’t mistake us. We eat pizza and ribs. We’d rather lose a lung than give up Buffalo wings. Cheese is, most definitely, our friend. To facilitate eating bad occasionally, though, we eat well ordinarily. One G@H editor particularly sucks at breakfast. He often skips it. When he has something, it’s usually instant oatmeal. That changes today. Today is February 1, and each day during February, he...

Perhaps you saw cheap rice cookers in the Black Friday adverts. Perhaps you cannot fathom how one rice cooker could cost tenfold that of another rice cooker. Perhaps you should check yourself before you wreck yourself. Value depends on a diversity of factors only one of which is price. For example, if you pay $125 for a rice cooker, that’s fine under one condition: it’s the best damn rice cooker ever in the history of all things. Meet the Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker. It happens to be the best damn rice cooker ever in the history of all things. The Zojirushi Micom is a microcomputer designed with a sole function. It cooks rice. And, it does so perfectly every time. Never does the rice burn. Never does it turn to mush. The Zojirushi Micom employs a technology known as, “fuzzy...