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healthy recipe with fish and yogurt and and and…

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I take great pride in food presentation, even if I am making dinner for two, which is most nights. I still organize the food groups on a plate as if we were eating in a fancy restaurant trumping in food design.  So, naturally, I choose recipes to try based on how well the presentation in a blog, or website. Crazy I know, but that is reality in my household. Here’s one I couldn’t resist to include-market fish and charred greens with citrus honey yogurt-oh my god how delicious! {source}    

healthy eats: lentil, yogurt and prosciutto

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Some night, well mostly Friday nights, I prefer an array of appetizer-sort eats  paired with a bottle of my favorite cab, than a full meal. It’s my way of winding down. I pick a film or two on Netflix, organize the appetizers and uncork the bottle…and I have to tell you I couldn’t ask for a better evening. Here’s a recipe of one appetizer I have put together way before finding it online. Except, I keep the yogurt in a separate bowl, drizzle it with olive oil and mint, the prosciutto on a platter with olives and cheese, and the lentil I buy pre-cooked, and shrink-wrapped from Trader Joe, seasoning it exactly as it says here. It’s funny how great chefs think alike. 🙂 How do you wind down? What is your favorite fun appetizer recipe?   {source credit}  

healthy cooking to healthy choices to healthy you

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Funny, how in the 50’s and 60’s all the way to about early 2013-2014, it was all about canned goods, frozen packaged foods, and boxed goodies here in the U.S. (I can’t really speak for the rest of the world). Although disappointingly, I found the same sort of push in most of Europe, tapping heavy into working couples who have no time to make anything from scratch. Now we have nothing but information, about what to eat and what to avoid. Sometimes too much information confusing us into making bad choices, or even the choices once reported as good choices, we learn on Facebook and Twitter to being suddenly bad choices. (Are you confused? Good, that’s the point. Anyway, we can’t be sure of anything. But my motto is-if you are not sure, go the moderation route. If you are somewhat sure, then click on each photo to learn about the best choices. {Click here to get there – Heidi Swanson} From Amazon:  San Francisco-based photographer and cookbook author Heidi Swanson is the creator of …

High Protein Recipes I can’t get enough Of

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My regime is something like this. Get up at five every day, drink 16oz of bottled water. Work out at home or gym, and then proceed with my day. Breakfast consists of oatmeal or 2 boiled eggs and a cup of espresso.  Then snack at nine, yogurt or a fruit or a handful of almonds. Lunch is about the proteins, and dinner sometimes a protein drink or a freshly pureed juice with fruits  and veggies.  A sliver of dark chocolate if I crave it, and more water throughout the day. I don’t deviate much from the plan  no matter how tempting. Only if I am at a special event or on vacation do I make exceptions.  So I am glad to have found this amazing blog, where I go to for all of my recipes, outside, of course, from all of my mediterranean cooking.  

healthy recipe: pho – vietnamese noodle soup

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I had the best pho in Madrid (so far), I should say… We asked our hotel concierge for somewhere to eat, Italian we said, when he asked our preference. I was craving pasta. What can I say.  Anyway, the man behind the podium in the lobby stepped out of the hotel to curbside and pointed in the direction we needed to go to find the only Italian restaurant in the area. We walked a few blocks, through the narrow streets and stumbled upon such a restaurant. Except that it was closed.  From sheer frustration,  we kept walking further, trying to figure out where to eat. Our clocks were off naturally and all of the restaurants didn’t open until much later. To make a long story short, we saw an Asian restaurant, by that I mean it was actually called Asian restaurant.  I was feeling a little under the weather, so I ordered Pho=soup, and so the story goes. Since I’ve been back, I have gone to three restaurants in the city (being San Francisco) and have …

recipe: grilled avocado and caprese

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Why is it on Monday’s I ‘m thinking about food? Anyway, over the weekend I found this recipe online and surprised my hubby with it. It’s funny I hardly followed the step by step. I simply looked at the photograph and knew exactly how to recreate. I also poached eggs and dropped it on top. It was delicious.  So, either way you try it, this is a fun and simple meal for a Friday night wind down with a bottle of your favorite cab. {photo and recipe credit click here}

healthy eating: kale quinoa bites

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Over the weekend I maintain my healthy eating as much as possible, minus of course the occasional bottle of wine I share with friends and family. But come Mondays, I want to share with you only healthy recipes to set the tone for the week. I’ve worked hard  losing weight and toning my body, and I will not let it go to waste :). Anyway, check out this kale and Quinoa Bites recipe, very easy to make and surely wonderful to nibble on here and there: {photo and recipe credit click here}