Wellness
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Banana Bread Muffins
With this crazy heat going on in Southern California our poor bananas ripened up on our kitchen counter-top before their time! But since we were planning a family movie night I thought perhaps we can make a little treat using these ripe bananas and came across a delicious recipe from Love From the Oven. Be sure to check out her blog – she has some amazing recipes! I love that you don’t need a mixer for this recipe and it takes about 15 minutes (tops) to prepare. So if you have some ripe bananas hanging around, it’s worth the effort because in about 30 minutes you and your family can…
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Grape Salad :: The Perfect Potluck Dish
We received some yummy red and green muscato grapes from Melissa’s Produce this week and I searched for a recipe that called for grapes and found the perfect potluck dish ever… The Grape Salad. If you are from the Midwest you probably know all about this delicious and creamy grape salad dish! And after trying it, I can say that us folks on the West Coast have been missing out – big time. With a mixture of cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, vanilla bean extract with a sprinkle of brown sugar and pecans – this is basically a cheesecake fruit salad. It’s the perfect potluck dish or pool party treat.…
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Recipe :: Garlic Butter Baked Salmon
If you love salmon, you are going to LOVE this garlic butter baked salmon. Best part is you can make the entire meal on just one pan. Tender garlic butter baked salmon with crispy roasted potatoes and asparagus all covered with a delicious garlic butter sauce. Love that this dinner can be made on one pan which makes life so much easier come clean up time! Wild Salmon I highly recommend you spend the extra bucks to get wild salmon. Besides tasting so much better, it is quite a bit healthier for you than farmed raised. “Wild salmon has a more robust content of vitamins and minerals…
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Signs You’re Wearing The Wrong Bra
There is one more thing you can do to help improve and maintain your breast health and it has to do with the undergarment that you choose to wear each day – your bra! Years ago I walked into a lingerie store to kill some time while my daughter was at a tea house birthday party next door. The ladies working at the shop asked if I had been sized recently to which I remarked “I don’t think I’ve been sized since high school.” I think I had guessed which size I was during and after my pregnancy, but never took the time to get properly…
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Recipe :: Golden Beet & Tomato Salad with Goat Cheese
When people ask me about what types of diets I recommend and which side of the fence I fall on, whether I am pro-vegetarian or pro-Paleo diet, I always tell them to listen to their body. Truly, your body will tell you when a food is working for you or not. And if you find you are craving a type of food that ends up making you feel sluggish, bloated or just overall bad, it probably means you are allergic to it. Our bodies, if unbalanced, will crave the very food that we are allergic to. Go figure! This is the case when you have a bad reaction to a…
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Recipe :: Delicious Lemon Bars with Shortbread Crust
One of the best things about springtime is all the delicious and fresh fruit found at our local supermarkets! Melissa’s Produce sent me a box of some of their tasty citrus fruits including Ojai Pixie Tangerines, Key Limes, Kumquats and gorgeous and juicy Meyer Lemons to enjoy and inspire me to do some baking!.There are so many recipes that call for a zest of lemon or lime. Or imagine a tasty tangerine scone on a Sunday morning. One of the best features of Melissa’s Produce is they provide a ton of recipes to try. You can visit their website to see what recipes go best with…
