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Juicy Turkey Burgers
I've been on a mission to make a juicy turkey burger. But not just juicy - tasty and firm, gluten-free and dairy-free as well. I think I nailed it tonight, so I shot a quick photo and sat down to write...
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Shrimp Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette
To be upfront, this recipe calls for mayo. Wait! Hear me out. Some love it. Some hate it. I get it. All it takes is one overly mayo-ed tuna salad or bad bologna sandwich as a toddler to scar you for...
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The Perfect Hard Boiled Egg
Lately, I have bumped into several different ways to hard boil an egg. My fridge feels incomplete without some to have as a quick breakfast or snack, to whip up as egg salad or to throw into a salad....
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Spring Dressings & Sauces
One of the suggestions I make to my health coaching clients that always gets a "yah, I have to do that" reaction is to make sauces. At any given time I have at least 3-5 difference sauces in my fridge....
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A Chicago Spring Chili
Mark and I have toyed with the idea of moving to Boulder. 360 days of sun. Jackets optional in the winter. Living and loving the sweet outdoor life all doped up on Vitamin D. Sounds so good that I'm...
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Classic Red Curry Chicken
I have tried to make an authentic batch of red curry chicken many times. I abandoned my mission, because my boys never liked it. Thai food for them was Pad Thai and only Pad Thai. I get it. I started...
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Recipe of a Lifetime
My girlfriend's daughter just graduated from high school. An amazing feat these days given the pressures our kids endure even before junior kindergarten. So when my friend asked us to create a page of...
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Cauliflower Hummus
For your 4th of July BBQ weekend ahead, here's a cauliflower carb-free dip that is a happy chickpea replacement to any buffet. If you're keeping your sugar intake low, the sweetness in the cauliflower...
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The Art (and Science) of a Healthy Salad
Brace yourself...my inner nerd is showing for this one...Summer equals salads. In our haste to whip up a healthy salad...piling on the nuts, seeds, avocado, olive oil, egg...we might be indulging in...
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Grilled Watermelon and Peaches
What looks like fruit but tastes like ribs? Grilled fruit! Lately it seems like chefs are throwing everything on the grill...lettuce, avocados, fruit. Fruit is hard to resist in the summer. Winter's no...
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Eat Dirt + Other Farmers Market Tips
Like most people who grew up without the internet, I played outside. Kick the can, bike rides alone into the woods (at 7 years old), jumping into leaf piles, and rolling down hills.There's a common...
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Zen-pirations for Dinner
SOUTHWEST AVOCADO SALMONMy go-to meal is always a lean protein and some veggies. Especially during summer. I just throw both on the grill. To spice it up, I add a side sauce. Using the Zen Blend's...
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Peace & Dinner Simplified
This summer, like every summer, sailed by. While the random flow of summer is freeing, the routine of fall is grounding. Needing a dose of grounding mid-summer, I set out on a paddle board on a...
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Cauliflower Cous Cous
I'm so happy I live in a time that I'm no longer in danger of choking on a dry cauliflower floret. Serious salad killer for me - raw cauliflower. But now I'm obsessed with cauliflower that mimics rice...
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Beyond Food and Exercise
The missing link to wellness is learning how to lower your vibration. We're all buzzing with energy, aka stress. Stress leads to dis-ease in the body. Even our kids vibrate on a high frequency. They...
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Paleo Blueberry Basil Lemon Muffins
You can now find these muffins at our Organic Food Boutique. Click here for details.
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Fried Cauliflower Rice with a Side of Gratitude
As a wellness coach, I often talk to people about emotional eating. But, lately, it's the feelings I get when I cook that have been food for thought. Take my Grandma Levy's Noodle Kugel. Pure love is...
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Spicy Turkey Quinoa Meatballs
This recipe caught my eye on Cooking Light. With an Italian mom, half my childhood diet consisted of meatballs. Not that I'm complaining. I love 'em, and welcome the creativity to try different...
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Spicy Avocado Edamame Hummus
I love a good challenge. Recently I volunteered to bring an appetizer to a gathering, where sushi was also being served. I wanted to stick with Asian flavors and first attempted an avocado wasabi dip....
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Coconut Curry Shrimp
If you know me, you know I have a healthy crush on Dr. Mark Hyman. As the Functional Health Godfather, his articles, posts and philosophies are always spot on. He's got the perfect mix of MD wisdom,...
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Charred and Roasted Broccoli with Toasted Slivered Almonds and "Cheese"
I love it when I see a dish I want to make and I have all the ingredients in my house. I experience a form of glee. While I don't mind grocery shopping, this joy is more about knowing my kitchen has...
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Turmeric Bone Broth Chicken Soup
Growing up my mom would call my grandma's chicken soup penicillin. One cup of her soup and whatever was ailing you was magically gone. Turns out there's actually science to back that up. So when I...
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No Regrets
As an Instagram newbie, I'll give this post a couple hashtags... #seenonmyrun #noregrets. I finally figured out this whole hashtag thing and can now cross that off my list of things I've done in this...
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Sweet Potato Soup to Soothe the Soul
Soup soothes the soul. Something we all need right now. So, from our home to yours, with love...sweet soup and a little wellness dish distraction...I love Thai coconut red curry. It has always been my...
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Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins
I completely understand how hard it is to give up sugar when you love, love, love it. Most days, I have it under control. Knowing that stress and sugar are connected biologically by design helps me...
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Gluten Free Stuffing and Roasted Turkey Breast
Only once have we hosted Thanksgiving at our house and it was spectacular. At the time, Mark was our home's main cook and I was the dishwasher. Several years ago, I decided I needed to learn how to...
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Roasted Chicken with 60 Cloves of Garlic
Growing up, I would celebrate every special occasion with my family at our favorite bib-wearing mega seafood restaurant that was famous for its lobster tanks and garlic buns. My family would proudly...
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Naturally Sweet Sunday Morning Pancakes
When I was a kid, my dad would sometimes surprise us with Sunday morning pancakes. His were one-of-a-kind, thin and soaked in butter. We drenched them in Aunt Jemima's, stuffed our faces and stumbled...
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Simple Spicy Shrimp Tacos
If my attention wanders while I'm reading a recipe, I immediately know I will never make it. I find my mind typically drifts around the 10th ingredient. But, if I find an easy recipe that I know I can...
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Marko's Turkey Tacos
This recipe has been in our huge binder of recipes under the "turkey" tab for years. Back in the day (ha) when we'd print out our recipes, we would put them in plastic sleeves and file them...
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Crispy Gluten-Free Fish Tacos
These simple little tacos produced an audible yummy noise from my family that could be heard clear across my kitchen. Honestly, that's rare. Hard as I try, I have a tough crowd to please here. Mark...
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Easy-ish Bibimbap with Big Cauliflower Rice
I don't think there is truly an easy way to make Bibimbap. But this version can get done fairly simply with what I call a little “kitchen gymnastics” and a good dose of humor. I've cooked it a couple...
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In Pursuit of Happinefs
Hope you're well!I know it's been a long time since we connected, but I have been busy pursuing happinefs. No, that's not really a typo. It's actually how it looks written in our Declaration of...
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Hungry for Asheville
We’d planned to go to Asheville last year after hearing many times that it had exactly what we seek in every summer vacation… good food and good hikes. Sadly, our plans were crushed when Mark’s job...
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Hearts of Palm and Avocado Salad
While summer equals salad, making your own salad at home can be tricky. It's an art to get the right combo of crunch, bite, tart and chop. Too chopped and you need a spoon. Too leafy and you need a...
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Eggs-iflower
Summer is my least creative time in the kitchen, because there's no need to doctor up a fresh veggies. Eat as is. I like to grill, make dressings, pick fresh herbs and enjoy what nature intended. So...
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Moisturizing Avocado Oil
I've known about avocado oils' antioxidant and healthy fat healing properties and have used it in food for a long while. I hadn't thought to use it as a moisturizer, yet it's known to be one of the...
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I'm Awesome She Replied
Hope you're having a great summer! It's been a couple months since my last post. If you remember, that one was about pursuing happiness. I've been working hard on happiness. Listening to my heart,...
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Accidental Insight
Hope you’re well and enjoying this pretty September!If you’ve been reading my posts lately, you know I’ve been writing about positivity and how the road to happiness can be somewhat treacherous. Most...
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When I get an email from Mark with a subject that reads "for the boys," I know there's a potential recipe coming that I'll need to tweak. The recipes he finds usually have cheese, dairy or flour - all...
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Avocado Frosting
One of my favorite ways to play with food is to take a traditional recipe and make it healthier. So when I saw green frosting out there on the foodweb, I knew I had to give it a try. This concoction is...
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Crispy Healthier Brussels Sprouts
Crispy restaurant-style Brussels are hard to replicate at home. Many attempts left me frustrated with burnt, hard sprouts that gave them their former bad rap. The missing restaurant ingredient I...
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Healthier S'mores Cups
In searching for a thank you gift, I found my way to these cute little deconstructed s'mores packages on Etsy that said "Thanks S'more." Just having had a s'more at a recent yoga retreat bonfire, I...
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Giving Up
Photo: Circa kindergarten. Me (far right) with my family about to start the ride...Greetings from 2018! I'm feeling good about this new clean slate, but I'm very grateful for the year that has passed....
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Sweet Stress
As a health coach, I meet most my clients when they’re not feeling so great. I get much joy in explaining that despite this, their bodies are working perfectly. Our bodies are complicated networks of...
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Be Still My Heart
Hope you're well and enjoying the start of spring! Soon, the energy of warmer weather and sunshine will propel us to get up and out to do more. As a health coach, I have the tough job of trying to...
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Cleaning House
Hope you're well. Happy May!If you've been busy spring cleaning your house, then I have some food for thought for you as you make your way room-to-room. Just like ‘you are what you eat’, I like to say,...
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The Bliss Point
Happy almost Labor Day! It’s hard to believe summer has passed, but then there are many things that are hard to believe. It’s even weirder that something called “The Bliss Point” is one of those...
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You Animal
Hope you're doing well and settling into fall. With summer still in the rearview mirror, October can feel like a heavy load to bear. Here, the dismal Chicago gray sky and thick misty air weighs me...
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The DNA of Worry
I left you last time a little weepy after sending my first son off to college. I’ll be emptying the nest this fall as my youngest son and talented, self-taught digital musician heads to Columbia...
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