A Personal Chef Can Keep You Healthy
Many professional athletes take every possible step to reach their optimum level of health and to maximize the intake of the proper vitamins and minerals that the body needs to operate at a high level day in and day out. However as people become more in tune with the improvements that a good diet can have on ones health dietitians and personal chef services become increasingly sought after. The increase in this focus on diet as an improvement on total health is three fold. It increases the human bodies ability to sustain energy over long periods of time, lowers the overall effects of stress on the body and allows faster recovery. Many times a diet can and will be personalized and changed and chef’s may be directed differently depending on the specific situations or goals that the person has in mind. Nutritionists and trained personal chef’s alike can be key (more…)
Chef 52: Where Foodies Meet Their Makers!
Hundreds of regular people all across the world are STARVING everyday!!
Starving for more time with friends and family…
Starving for value and a better quality of life…
Starving for a healthy alternative at the dinner table…
Starving for a new experience…
Here is the new experience that satisfies these cravings.
Introducing Chef 52: an online community marketplace, bringing together people who LOVE to cook, with people who LOVE to eat. From the hobbyist to the celebuchef, the pie lady to the accredited professional, chefs can create a profile, sell their services, accept payments, and grow their business based on community feedback.
Through delicious localvore style meals, private or group lessons and Chef 52 events, they’re getting families out of the drive-thru lines and back to the table where they can reclaim their foodie independence.
They’ll be launching privately in the coming weeks so please sign up to be (more…)
Holiday Challah! Gluten-Free Style Channukah Treat
Gluten-free challah represents a bit of a ‘Holy Grail’ for #GF Jews. There’s no obvious substitute for tearing apart and sharing bread with your friends and family, and for many who are gluten intolerant, it becomes painfully obvious each Friday at sundown when they must hover for Shabbat prayers around a cutting board bearing a hot, delicious braided challah.
One writer stated, “The first time I had to sing the hamotzi over a rice cracker while everyone else ripped apart the bread, I cried.”
Edited to add: I was recently ‘schooled’ on my #GF flours – and spelt is a TYPE OF WHEAT!!! Leave it to the non-GF girlfriend to blow it! So it is NOT GF! Further… my Tom Sawyer Flour is made of RICE flour (I suppose that’s sort of an ancient grain) not spelt, at all. And while I could simply change all the text to reflect (more…)
Breakfast For Health - Smart Children, Healthy Breakfast
Parents, from generations, have been telling their kids to have a healthy breakfast. Medical Science has now confirmed it that children who eat healthy breakfast show better progress in education and sports in comparison to those who do not. Healthy children, in other words, have a habit of eating nutritious breakfast food. In this one of my many breakfast articles, I would try to explain why breakfast is important for children health.
Quick Fix
Unlike most other meals that we prepare, making breakfast does not ask for a lot of time, and a high level of expertise. It is a portable meal. Your child can grab a healthy bit on his way to school. Believe it or not, but breakfast is definitely the most FLEXIBLE meal of the day.
Nutritional Aspect
Often, due to our busy schedules, we fail to include high fiber food in our meals. This, however, is (more…)
Food Photography Is MORE than Just Good Food
We devour our food first with senses other than taste before we actually try a dish. So I’m fair certain I don’t have to tell you how important it is to take great food photos, particularly if you are writing a foodie blog. I know I eat first with my eyes and it’s much harder to get me all hot and bothered over a dish if an unappetizing photo sits next to it. Just like in a restaurant – if the dish presented looks incredible you begin salivating before lifting your fork – you want to photograph it to remember its perfection and when you look back at that photo on your iPhone, you hope the lighting is able to show your friends just how good the dish actually was.
I know tons of blog writers feel that they don’t have the time or perhaps even, the proper resources to (more…)
Respect The Boobies Breast Cancer Awareness *Over $250usd* *CLOSED*
And The Winner Is… Karrieann Warr!!! Congratulations!! MommySalad, Johnson Beesley, Garlic Gold, Tropical Traditions, (read about their coconut water vinegar), method, Lenox and Scarborough Lane are super duper proud to bring you the Breast Cancer Awareness Giveaway! Mommy Salad is giving away a signed copy of Gabe Berman’s book Live Like A Fruit Fly! This is a true, ‘pass it on’ sort of book. One worth reading time and again and one I love to share with others. Read what Deepak Chopra had to say about Gabe’s book below!
Do you know anyone who has had cancer? If not, you’re lucky, definitely in a minority. There are so many people out there living with it, or who have had it and survived. And a boatload more who didn’t. And while I know many people who have had their brushes with cancer, and they (more…)
Grown Up Birthday's Require Grown Up Cake *Recipe*
You know, I’ve never really considered myself much of a pack rat, (I’m sure my husband would disagree – just not out-loud). I don’t generally have an issue getting rid of things that sit around or are of no more use to me – except in my kitchen, or as it relates to my kitchen. I had more issues of Bon Appetit than your average domestic goddess, they dated back to the 80s. I know, right? Then there was my shoe boxes stuffed with family recipes. The kind you write down on the back of an electric bill or the ones your mother lovingly transcribed onto one of those adorable recipe cards with the little hand drawn pies in the corners and gave you when you got married. This is one of those recipes. I’ve made it a handful of times, the last being more than 10 years ago. But (more…)
Rocket, Garlic and Lemon Spaghetti *Recipe*
My husband and I have spent a great many years traveling the globe. We LOVE to ‘go’. Along the way we’ve sampled some amazing cuisine. As I’ve received a fair portion of fresh local Arugula (Rocket) and Fresh organic basil from our @KulaFields box – I thought to call upon my Italian journeys and offer up one of our versatile family favorites for a quick dinner or an epic lunch! I can assure you there are rarely leftovers here but if you have some this is delicious cold the next day!
*Note to self: Make sure to take time to enjoy the turning of the leaves or the changing of the seasons instead of spending all my time in the kitchen. It’s wonderful to cook and entertain your friends and family but a healthy life depends on a balance of down time combined with the busy, fun or working times (more…)
Spotify via Uncrate
Finally. As our European friends have been telling us for years, Spotify ($Free) is what the long-rumored iTunes subscription service was supposed to be. Boasting a catalog of 15 million songs, it lets you search for and listen to specific songs, artists, and entire albums (for up to 10 hours a month), after which you’ll need to pony up $5 for the Premium service and unlimited computer-based listening or $10 for the Unlimited service, which gives you app access from your iPhone or Android device, the ability to download music for listening online, enhanced sound quality, and much more. Sorry iTunes Match, but you’re no match for this.
Last Round: Hangover Helper or Hardly Helpful?
It would seem that over the last several years there has been an explosion in the number of hangover cures / remedies / preventatives and after a while of bumping into them in various places, I got curious as to what made these products tick. Plus, I am an avid supporter of ‘Wine Wednesday’, a blog hop I feel like I invented and if I didn’t I should have, and I am thanking the one who did.
One thing I’ve noticed, over my last drinking decade, is that a whole bunch of these hangover products are sold in much the same way as “pleasure pills” (you know what I mean – they come into your email box alongside the ‘Fake Rolex’ ads?). ‘Last Resort: Hangover Support’ is made by a company, HerbaSway Laboratories, who also provides a vast array of essential remedies like Green Tea and Blueberry (next review on (more…)
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