Guest Post: Quick and Easy Energizing Meals | RecipeLionBlog A special thanks to Olivia for contributing this guest post with some tips for quick and easy meals. —- Quick and Easy Energizing Meals Whether you are a busy professional, a new mom or just a lazy cook, there will always be times when you wish you could just whip up a quick and easy meal that is also healthy. And cooking yourself is certainly more frugal than running out to the nearest sandwich place! Pasta Pasta can be really quick, especially if you use the fresh variety. Stir fries Stir fries are as quick and easy as they are versatile. Huge salads Salads are easy to prepare and I personally love them with rocket, lettuce, red cabbage, tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, even raw zucchini, and of course cheese. Breakfast Breakfast truly sets you up for the day! Olivia blogs about fertility, pregnancy, birth and babies at Trying To Conceive . Thanks again to Olivia for the post! Share and Enjoy
MeatlessMonday theBERRY - That's What She Saw | Berry Love Group Recipes. We ♥ Food. Rev your engine with these energizing foods Rev your engine with these energizing foods By Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD, LDWebMD Weight Loss Clinic - Expert Column With the New Year comes a new chance to get healthier and lose that weight once and for all. Easier said than done! We all start off a new year with great expectations. This year, why not give your diet a fresh start by emphasizing foods that you should eat more of instead of focusing on foods to avoid? Timing Is Everything For foods to give you that much-needed boost, you need to eat the right ones at the right time. "Never let your tank get on empty," says Dan Benardot, PhD, RD, FACSM, a nutrition researcher and professor of nutrition at Georgia State University in Atlanta. This will help you maintain muscle tissue -- which burns more calories than fat tissue -- while putting the proverbial zip in your step. "Ingesting large quantities of food stimulates insulin production and the deposition of fat," he says. Fire Up the Engine High-Octane Foods
FatFree Vegan Kitchen | Sinlessly Delicious Recipes Our Best Bites | Tips, Tricks, and Tastes from Two Real-Life Kitchens Cielo Rosso - a Festive Holiday Cocktail There’s nothing like a festive cocktail to set the tone for a great party. The Cielo Rosso (Italian for Red Sky) is my go to cocktail around the holidays and it’s always met with rave reviews. When I read it won a Las Vegas competition called Shake it Up: The Battle of the Mixologists, I had to whip up a batch of my own. It has a gorgeous ruby color which makes it perfect to serve around the holidays (or any time as far as I’m concerned)! It involves lots of squeezing but it’s so worth it.I will definitely be making this from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve! Cielo Rosso Adapted slightly from original recipe created by Manny Hinojosa. Make a batch in advance – makes 4-6 cocktails. 1 cup – Vodka 1 cup – Freshly Squeezed Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice 1/2 cup – Campari 1/2 cup – Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice 1/2 cup – Simple Syrup (combine equal parts water and sugar, boil until dissolved, cool completely) Lemon Peel (for garnish) Fresh Basil (for garnish) Get ready for your guests to demand the recipe.
Recipes, Cooking Tips, Food Advice and Menus - KitchenDaily City Dirt - Topics - Blog - Food52 - food community, recipe search and cookbook contests This is the sixteenth in our biweekly series from Amy Pennington – urban farmer, founder of GoGo Green Garden, and author of Urban Pantry and Apartment Gardening – on how to start growing your own food, no matter how tiny your garden-to-be is. Today: It's hard to believe, but fall is on its way. Amy tells us what to plant now for the perfect patio harvest come cold weather. Read More » This is the fifteenth in our biweekly series from Amy Pennington – urban farmer, founder of GoGo Green Garden, and author of Urban Pantry and Apartment Gardening – on how to start growing your own food, no matter how tiny your garden-to-be is. Today: Amy teaches us to take care of our tomato plants, prune them fearlessly, and trellis them with simple household supplies. Read More » Today: Amy shows us how to harvest plants from root to stem. Read More » Today: No backyard? Read More » You asked and we answered! Find a fig tree! For more on propagation of other plants, read the full City Dirt post! Read More »