The Ultimate Veggie Brush: The Ring™
Keep your veggies as clean as your diet.
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Lupa’s Morning Glory Sprouted Coconut Buckwheat
Therapy through Food. ~Lupa Irie
Lupa’s Morning Glory Sprouted Coconut Buckwheat is a gluten-free (yes, buckwheat is not in the wheat family despite what its name suggests) blend that is also free of dairy, soy, refined sugar, and artificial flavors, colors, and sweeteners.
Made with 11 organic ingredients: sprouted buckwheat, sprouted pumpkin seeds, unsweetened coconut flakes, raisins, Grade A 100% pure maple syrup, goji berries, cinnamon, cumin, cardamom, black pepper, and coriander, Lupa’s Morning Glory Sprouted Coconut Buckwheat is for those who prefer a breakfast blend to be both slightly sweet and savory, and always delicious. Read more
Magnificent Bedding: Yves Delorme
Talking about the thread count (the number of threads per square inch) of a sheet doesn’t generally get me too excited because there are so many other factors to consider when buying bedding including the type of cotton (i.e. Eygyptian, Pima, and Supima), threading, where the fabric is from, and the type of finish. Thread count simply doesn’t always represent quality – it’s like looking at a chocolate bar and considering the percentage of cocoa as the only factor that matters when in reality the type and quality of all the ingredients matter. Read more
Quick Summer Pasta Salad
A colorful pasta salad is the perfect meal on a warm summer evening especially when the whole meal takes less than 20 minutes from start to finish. Fresh, locally grown sweet cherry tomatoes are in season but any type of chopped tomatoes will work along with a sweet Vidalia onion, and lots of fresh spinach with whole grain pasta – but green zucchini, yellow squash, multi-colored peppers, and broccoli florets also make for a delicious pasta salad. Let your taste buds drive your recipe but know that seasoning is essential; otherwise, the pasta salad will be bland. Read more
Postre Sea Salt Caramel Lollipops
Say the word “lolly” or “lollipop” and visions of everyone’s favorite childhood treat – big, round, rainbow-colored, tangy, fruity-flavored multi-colored lollipops – comes to mind. Mitch Hedberg, the stand-up comedian once said “a lollipop is a cross between hard candy and garbage,” but he didn’t quite get it right. Sure, there are lots of lollipops made with artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives but the traditional, magnificent lollipop made with simple ingredients and no artificial anything is also out there for the taking. You just have to look. Read more
Seggiano’s Newest: Sicilian Wild Fennel Tomato Pesto
Seggiano, the Italian gourmet and culinary leader is at it again. With 3 delicious pesto sauces already on the market, Seggiano decided the times is right to introduce a new pesto: Sicilian Wild Fennel Tomato Pesto: a thick and hearty sauce made with tomato salsa (tomatoes, salt) 43%, sun-dried tomatoes (tomatoes, salt) 28%, Italian extra virgin olive oil, wild fennel leaves 8.5%, avola almonds, and chili. Read more
Anything Is Possible
Before you pick up the book, Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout, do yourself a favor and read My Name is Lucy Barton first. Both books stand alone as good reads but collectively these fictional stories are even better because the first book sets the stage and introduces a cast of colorful characters whose lives intertwine in the most bizarre ways in the second book. Read more
The Protein Craze
In our protein-obsessed culture, people spend enormous amounts of time thinking about how to consume as much of this nutrient as possible from animal sources. We’ve been conditioned to associate protein with muscle development, animals, and overall health but we need to step back and open our minds to both how much we need and where to get it. A generation ago, protein was associated with spinach (Where is Popeye of spinach fame when we need him?) but the emphasis is currently on getting protein from animal products. Why is that? Read more
Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers
Savory and delicious, Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers – Fine Ground Sea Salt – are crunchy gluten-free crackers that will make you think twice about snacking. Made with a nut and seed flour blend (made from almonds, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds), tapioca, cassava (a starchy, tuberous root), organic sunflower oil, sea salt, organic onion, organic garlic, and rosemary extract (for freshness), Simple Mills Fine Almond Flour Crackers – Fine Ground Sea Salt – have nothing artificial, “ever.” Recognizable wholesome ingredients make for nutrient dense and great tasting crackers. Read more
Avocado Toast with Radish Sprouts
…the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise. ~David Fairchild
How hard is it to make avocado toast? Not very but if you truly want extraordinary avocado toast then there are a few ingredients you need to use starting with a good loaf of bread – preferably a whole grain baguette that can be toasted yet still have a chewy interior texture. Read more
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