by niccolapiccola | Nov 13, 2013 | books, food, salads
What a productive day I’ve had thus far and it’s not even two o’clock yet! This morning, I taught my 6:15 a.m. class at Harmony House, took in a spin class, slipped in some Ashtanga, visited the library, and then I bolted for the Farmer’s...
by niccolapiccola | Nov 12, 2013 | Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food, Quick dinner ideas
Blue Ballet Bread, Bkue Balley Bread, Blu Ball Breed. See! I can’t even spell it three times fast, never mind say it, but it smells so good in my oven that I know I’ll eat it three times as fast! What is this bread I speak, you may ask? Why, it’s my...
by niccolapiccola | Nov 11, 2013 | food, Quick dinner ideas
Said no one, EVER!!!! God, it’s wicked dark out there right now and it’s not even five o’clock! I feel like I could curl up with a good book and put my pajamas on but I haven’t even eaten dinner yet… sigh, I miss the summer, sigh again. Today...
by niccolapiccola | Nov 8, 2013 | Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food
Can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here? Time flies when you’re having fun.. especially if your kind of fun is doing yoga on pumpkins, squash and anything else that seems like a challenge to balance on! At Yoga Centre, where I teach in SLO, the pose of the...
by niccolapiccola | Nov 5, 2013 | food, salads
My student Shelley and I were joking the other day that our kale salad’s get more spa treatments in the two minutes we use to prepare them, then we both do all year long! As we were discussing this another student said, “I hate kale,” and we both got...
by niccolapiccola | Nov 3, 2013 | animals and such, Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food
Farm to table dinners are all the rage right now on the Central Coast and I’m thinking of hosting one at my house soon! Andy I were talking about a Friends-Thanksgiving the week or so before Thanksgiving day, like the one we went to at our friend Erin’s...