Did you know that if you soak your raw almonds in water, you get way more nutritional benefits from them? The brown papery coating on raw almonds contains tannin, which is great if you’re an almond because it protects the nut from oxidation. Tannins act like almond bodyguards, locking in their nutrients – protein, magnesium,
Disclaimer: This post was written when I first began my blog and I wrote about anything and everything. I’d take it down because it has nothing to do with this site anymore, but a lot of freaked out people just like you come here in a penis mushroom panic and I feel like I don’t want
My friend Michelle finds prickly cactus pears at her farmer’s market, peels them, and infuses them in white tequila for a week. She uses the prickly-pear-infused tequila to make these kick-ass margaritas, which she served to our book club last year while playing Gerry Rafferty Radio on Pandora …and just like that our book club
my introduction to meditation Do you remember that powerful scene, in the movie What’s Love Got To Do With It? which chronicles Tina Turner’s life, that shows her introduction to meditation from a friend? I was intrigued with not only the beauty of this chanting meditation practice but how the movie posits Tina’s spiritual resurrection from defeated
I can’t stop eating the roasted garlic tahini dressing that Whole Foods uses at their salad bar. It’s made by Cindy’s Kitchen exclusively for Whole Foods. It’s the roasted garlic that imparts the concentrated flavor, which is really easy to do at home. I experimented and in my version, I used tamari instead of
I know mudslides I made and served thousands of frozen mudslides when I worked my way through college serving drinks and tending bar at Ballard’s on Block Island, Rhode Island. Ballard’s is a lobster house located right on the beach at the ferry landing. Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s, frozen mudslides were the
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