The Porcelain Throne

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Visit my guest blogging at Alternative Health! What would get my mouth washed out with soap when I was a kid is now a topic that can be had around the dinner table. More and more, us grown-ups are willing to discuss our bowel movements, or lack thereof.  I wanted to get down to the [...]

Real Food Challenge

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Real Food Challenge Let's get real and cut the fluff.. speaking of fluff no marshmallows, cotton candy or fluffy fillers and garbage turning our food into the nutritional equivalency of the green sludge off of Nickelodeon. We are getting back to the basics, back to the real food that so easily tempted our father Adam or was that [...]

Sutchers

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Chocolate and heartbreak go hand in hand like my hand digging into a box of roscala chocolates. When stressed and overwhelmed I develop sticky fingers that tend to only gravitate to that which is delicious and poisonous. After a couple episodes of Vampire Diaries and some chocolate I felt like a new women. Having faith [...]

Raw Cashew Dream Cake

– Posted in: Blawg, Food

This is literally a dream come true. This was made by Laura tonight for the Be Well Retreat. Although we've been cooking together this one was all her. The only help I offered was to take this picture and of course taste test. Healthy and delicious to the taste is hard to come by but [...]

Chocolate Mousse Tart

– Posted in: Blawg, Dairy Free, Food, Gluten Free, Paleo, Raw

Chocolate Mousse Tart Maple Walnut Crust Ingredients: 1 ½ cups organic walnuts 2 Tbsp. maple syrup a pinch fine sea salt Chocolate Avocado Mousse Ingredients: 4 ripe avocados 10 very soft dates (soaked if necessary) 4 Tbsp. raw agave nectar 2 Tbsp. high-quality raw cacao powder (or unsweetened cocoa powder if you don’t have the [...]

Shopping and Shenanigans

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Laura and M'Lisa turned what would have otherwise been an ordinary grocery shopping trip for this weeks retreat, into an adventure worthy of writing home about.With her "Bible" (shopping list and recipes) firmly in hand, Laura instructed and directed M'Lisa on the upcoming menu. They went over which ingredients go with what and why it's [...]

Be Well Retreat

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Let the party begin. M'lisa, author of the Be Well Guide and Laura my own personal holistic chef and recipe guru for Real Easy Meals, well not exactly my personal chef but I'd like her to be and I'm sure you will too after you see the menu for this Be Well retreat. Just upon [...]

Balsamic Dressing

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Downloadable PDF for Balsamic Dressing Ingredients ¼ cup olive oil ¼ cup balsamic vinegar Juice of ½ lemon 1 clove garlic, minced Salt & Pepper to taste Makes 4 servings Cooking Instructions Whisk all ingredients in a small bowl, or shake in a dressing container before serving.