September is National Yoga Month
September is National Yoga Month.
To celebrate and promote yoga and healthy living, A 10 City Yoga Festival Tour is being held throughout the US and Canada with many of the top names in Yoga - Shiva Rea, Larry Payne, Timothy McCall - participating. All proceeds from Yoga Month and Yoga Health Festivals will benefit Youth Health Alliance and health education for underserved children.
To learn more about Yoga Month.
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Steak Fajita Recipe
I love fajitas. Steak fajitas. Chicken fajitas. Shrimp fajitas. It’s one of my favorite meals to order in Mexican restaurants.
The truth is fajitas are easy to make at home. Just marinate your meat, slice a few veggies, give them a quick toss in a skillet, gather a few garnishes and dinner is served.
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Corn Salad Recipe
T his simple corn salad is a wonderful way to take advantage of the delicious fresh corn flooding the markets at this time of year. The corn looked so fresh and delicious when I shopped Sunday morning I ended up buying way more than I needed and have been looking for ways to use it ever since. We’ve enjoyed corn fritters, corn chowder and this delicious simple summer corn salad that can be tossed together in one bowl.
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Recipe for Healthy Eating
“Far more indispensable than food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.”
~ Gandhi
Is there a recipe for healthy eating?
The quality of what you eat is important to your overall health and wellness. But is there something that is even more important? The folks at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition think so. Advocates of a holistic approach to nutrition, they postulate that what you eat is secondary to the quality of your life - your relationships, your career, your physical activity, and your spirituality - considered primary food in their unique recipe for healthy eating.
No matter how much attention and care you give to your diet and what you eat, optimal health and wellness will evade you if your sources of primary food are deficient. Focus on what really feeds and nourishes you and you are sure to thrive, even if your ‘diet’ isn’t perfect. This is a key ingredient in their recipe for healthy eating.
It’s the news I’ve been waiting to hear after years of trying to determine the ‘right way to eat’ from all the experts and authorities who appear locked in a violent battle of conflicting nutritional information. When you look around you realize that the science of nutrition has done little to alleviate the modern woes that surround us - obesity, chronic disease, and deep seated unhappiness.
It’s because what we eat can never replace our desire for quality relationships, rewarding work, enjoyable physical activity, and spiritual connection with food. And yet we try to fill all that is missing in our lives with food. In the process we become sicker, fatter, and unhappier.
Once we recognize the importance of primary food in our recipe for healthy eating and begin focusing on improving these critical areas of our lives our issues with the food we eat take their appropriate secondary position and become manageable. We are able to lose the weight and eat better with much less struggle. It seems too good to be true, but it’s not. We are on the path to living healthy, happy, rewarding lives. We have found a recipe for healthy eating we can live with that will support us. Will there be bumps in the road? Yes, but given our increasing awareness of food’s rightful position of importance we will feel equipped to handle them.
If you are you interested in learning more about holistic nutrition or working with a counselor The Institute of Integrative Nutrition has a graduate directory to assist you. I worked with Darshana Weill of Fruition Health by telephone for several months. One of the first graduates of the IIN program, she is a gifted holistic health counselor who helped me fine-tune my nutritional concerns.
IIN graduate, Dani Spies, has a beautiful informative website full of healthy recipes. You can purchase the book, Integrative Nutrition: The Future of Nutrition
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Italian Sausage & Pasta Recipes
Do you enjoy preparing tasty italian sausage & pasta recipes? I hope you try this one. It’s one of my favorite Italian sausage and pasta recipes for ziti with sausage and vegetables, adapted from the cookbook, Jacques Pepin’s Kitchen: Cooking With Claudine
This italian sausage and pasta recipe is one of those quick easy pasta recipes you can turn to again and again. I first made this easy pasta dish for my brother back in the late 1990s. He gave it an enthusiastic thumbs up and its been in my files ever since.
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Food You Crave
I am immensely enjoying Food Network Healthy Appetite host Ellie Krieger’s cookbook, The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life
Just like her show, The Food You Crave, is devoted to helping you make luscious recipes that are healthier. I love her approach to cooking –real ingredients prepared simply enough for everyday, yet interesting enough for entertaining. She proves that healthy food can be delicious–bursting with flavor, color, and aroma — and deeply satisfying.
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Easy Recipes Cinnamon Rolls
Always on the lookout for quick easy tasty recipes I was intrigued when I discovered this cinnamon rolls recipe that called for frozen bread dough, instead of homemade.
Last winter while living in northern Wisconsin I did a side-by-side comparison of homemade cinnamon rolls. Since skiing, snow-shoeing, and ice fishing aren’t my thing, I spent a lot of time cooking and baking. It was the perfect way to stay warm and lift my spirits with the powerful scents of sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla.
In my side-to-side comparison I made two different cinnamon rolls recipes - one using frozen bread dough and the other homemade dough from scratch. While the homemade dough created slightly more tender cinnamon rolls my husband and I agreed that the difference wasn’t great enough to justify the additional time and energy, especially for busy cooks on the lookout for easy cinnamon rolls recipes.
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Pasta Salad Recipe
This is a tasty pasta salad recipe perfect for hot summer evenings or toting to picnics and potlucks. It makes a big batch of pasta salad that keeps well in the refrigerator for several days.
I love it because it is full of tasty, colorful vegetables - red and green bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, marinated artichoke hearts, kalamata olives - and dressed with a tangy vinaigrette.
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Quick & Easy Crumb Coffee Cake Recipe
I made this luscious quick and easy crumb coffee cake for breakfast. I’m usually not so industrious first thing in the morning, but I wanted something special since we have house guests.
It’s easy to make, quick to bake, and so satisfying served warm with coffee, fresh berries, and yogurt. One friend commented that he hadn’t had homemade coffee cake for decades.
Simple homemade coffee cake may be old-fashioned but I think it’s worth bringing back, don’t you?
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Carrot Zucchini Bars Recipe
Are you looking for healthy dessert recipes you can serve your family without guilt?
These carrot zucchini bars are a great way to entice your family into eating their veggies. They are packed with nutritional goodness from carrots, zucchini, raisins, walnuts and whole wheat pastry flour, and low in fat - using only 1/4 cup of canola oil - so you can serve them without guilt.
Including some zucchini makes them lighter than using carrots alone, and carrot puree keeps them moist with minimal fat. In addition to being healthy, these carrot-zucchini bars are are quick and easy too. Just stir together the ingredients and spread the batter in a pan. They are my entry in the healthy recipe contest being hosted by Fun & Food. Wish me luck.
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