Healthy & Hydrated: What You Need To Know About H20
Posted on Aug 02, 2016
A nice, long drink of cold water on an 85 degree summer day is not only refreshing, it’s essential to your well-being! Without water, our organs can’t function properly, our bodies can’t maintain a stable temperature and our joints can’t stay lubricated. So, how can you fight dehydration during these hot summer months to keep […]
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Healthy Diet: Summertime Cooking Inspiration
Posted on Aug 28, 2015
Happy Friday Friends! I hope everyone had a great week. Instead of doing a weekly recipe I thought I would post some foodie links that are inspiring me to get in the kitchen and cook. Last week’s cooler weather reminded me that fall is just around the corner so I feel a particular urgency to cook […]
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Healthy Diet: Grilled Steak Salad with Blue Cheese and Cherry Tomatoes
Posted on Aug 05, 2015
This grilled steak salad is one of my favorite summer dinners. An easy marinade adds just the right amount of sweet and salty to the meat while the creamy blue cheese, sweet cherry tomatoes and pungent red onion gives it tons of flavor. I like to use arugula for the greens because I enjoy their peppery […]
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Healthy Diet: 2 Ways to Use Your Tomatoes for Dinner
Posted on Jul 22, 2015
Nothing says summer more than the arrival of the crown jewel of summer produce – the sun-kissed tomato. If you are stuck using tomatoes in salads then here are two fresh ways to use your tomatoes for dinner instead: Pasta with Tomato Cream Sauce: Ingredients: 4-6 medium sized tomatoes, cored and chopped (you can peel the […]
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Healthy Diet: Garlic Scape Pesto
Posted on Jul 15, 2015
Have you ever seen Garlic Scapes at the Farmer’s Market and not known what they are, much less how to use them? You can use them to make a delicious garlic scape pesto for your next pizza or pasta dish. Garlic Scape Pesto Ingredients: 10-12 scapes roughly chopped ¼ cup slivered almonds ½ cup extra virgin olive oil […]
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Healthy Diet: Strawberry Rhubarb Soda Syrup
Posted on Jul 08, 2015
Peanut butter and jelly. Strawberries and cream. Dark chocolate and sea salt. Honey and apples. There are just some food combinations that love each other. The two halves are made better when combined into one whole. I would also include rhubarb and strawberries in this list. The bitterness of the rhubarb and the sweetness of […]
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Healthy Diet: Carrot and Avocado Salad
Posted on Jul 01, 2015
Last week we roasted beets from Farmer’s Market to make a delicious salad. This week we are roasting carrots and pairing them with avocados. I am always on the lookout for different or unusual combinations and this recipe from Smitten Kitchen caught my eye. The sweetness of the carrots pairs beautifully with the freshness of […]
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Healthy Diet: Roasted Beet Salad
Posted on Jun 24, 2015
If there is one thing you can count on all summer long it is the abundance of beets at the Farmer’s Market. Beets are one of those foods I recently re-discovered. Up until a few years ago I thought all beets were like the ones you get out of a can: tasteless, slimy and unnaturally red. […]
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