A CHEF’S WIFE/ YOGA TEACHER’S GUIDE ON HOW NOT TO MAKE AN “ASANA” OUT OF YOURSELF…
OFF THE MAT AND IN THE KITCHEN!
Lettuce entertain you!
I just love a good picnic. One that includes great company, a Mexican blanket, baked goodies, yummy goat cheeses, pistachios, chocolate, lettuce wraps and good wine...of course! This weekend was a debauchery!! My girlfriends and I went to Los Osos for the free...
Look who’s home (and garden!)
Every afternoon between 2 and 3 p.m., I sit outside on my patio to enjoy a salad for lunch. Usually I'm swatting away flies who are trying relentlessly to annoy me, until my hummingbird friends come around, and I forget all about them. Hummingbirds have got to be the...
Bella Italiana!
My ma tells me that one of the first phrases I learned to say was "che bella giornata," or "what a beautiful day" in Italian. Leave it to my ma to teach me that at a young age! I'm 75% Italian and 25% Irish and very feisty, as most of you already know. Everything...
Wake-up, wake-up, wake-up, it’s the first of the month…
And although I'm not waiting for my welfare check like Bone Thugs-n-Harmony rap about in that song, I've got bills to pay and checks to cash...and grocery shopping, a Target run that will no doubt cost more than 100 bones, and a trip to Petco, for food, allergy...
Keep calm and yoga on
"The act of bring present is a practice in itself." Meg Whitney ________________ Although I have been doing Ashtanga for many years, I still like to take a good Vinyasa class now and again. I teach lots of Vinyasa and I base my flow classes on the principles of...
What a perfect “pear”
I'm just amazed at how fresh the produce is here on the Central Coast. One of my favorite things to do in general is grocery shop, and the Farmer's Market's here have taken it to a whole new level! Fruits and vegetables that I've never seen, nor heard of, are being...
I heart books and my TRX
This is my new personal trainer. His name is TRX and he gives me a total body workout through suspension training, without all the yelling! Never heard of suspension training? The TRX leverages gravity and your bodyweight to perform fun and different resistant...
Falling into autumn
Happy First Day of Fall! It's about 80 degrees here today, but I'm celebrating with pumpkin chocolate chip cookies anyway! The cookies are for my good friend Sara who had a birthday on Thursday, and we're having a belated BBQ/party for her, with the Chicago Bears game...
Bonkers for Butternut!
Did you all see the Harvest Moon last night?? It was big and bright, and made me think about re-harvesting my garden for the start of fall on Sunday. I'm big into squash right now in all of it's forms- spaghetti, acorn, table queen and my favorite, butternut!...
Will circuit train for Paleo pancakes, brownies and scotchies!
And cookies, cakes, breads... Make me desserts and yum yums and I'll train even harder! It's no shocker that I love to eat but not at the cost of my waistline anymore. These days there's so many substitutes for sugar, flour and butter that it's easy to make healthier...
No soup for you!
Does anyone else out there miss Seinfeld? Gosh, I do. My friend Lynn and I quote lines and act out little skits from our favorite episodes that are prevalent in our life. We are quite funny, at least we think we are and really, that's all that matters! My all-time...
It’s a pizza?! It’s a salad?!
No! It's a pizza-salad! Maybe this is me and Andy's invention, but the two foods I love most are salads and pizza, so we decided to combine them. I know, you're probably thinking why not just eat the salad first and then the pizza? Why, because we're creative up in...