Healthy Treats for the Holidays By Jessica Goldbogen Harlan
If you've got a sweet tooth, chances are you anticipate the holidays with both excitement and dread. After all, even the most resolute intentions can crumble when you're faced with a whipped cream-topped wedge of pecan pie or your favorite holiday cookie. But “there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to enjoy outrageously delicious and decadent desserts this time of year," says Kathleen Daelemans, author of Cooking Thin with Chef Kathleen (Houghton Mifflin) and a regular guest on NBC's Today show. "The problem is when portion control goes out the window."
You've seen her before: the party girl in her black dress teetering down the street in metallic gold stilettos, dangling gold multi-chains across her decolletage and monstrous gold hoops while adjusting her woven gold belt and futzing with gold bangles all down her arm. Unfortunately, an outfit like this is anything but golden.
Jackie Dyer was mortified. Her four-year-old, Clare, irritated with being poked and peered at by a woman with scary-looking tools, had shared her feelings in a very anti-social way: she'd bitten the dentist. Hard.
