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Friday Morning Iced Coffee Date (12/16)

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Good morning and HAPPY FRIDAY , friends! It’s Friday morning and you know what that means: It’s time for an iced coffee date ! I’m drinking my iced coffee with eggnog this morning, so it’s festive, fun, creamy, and sweet. Perfection. What are you drinking this morning? Speaking of coffee… I’m kind of annoyed with Marylou’s lately . Remember how much I used to love their coffee? It was actually kind of an obsession. Well, I haven’t been thrilled with my last few Marylou’s experiences. The iced coffee is so watered-down nowadays. Like the eggnog iced coffee that I bought the other day… it was basically coffee-flavored water with a hint of eggnog flavoring. Ugh. Annoying. Related: At home, I’m brewing the Coconut Hawaiian Coffee from Nuts.com , and it’s the bomb . And, of course, much more cost-effective than buying it/wasting my money at Marylou’s! Random thoughts related to the photo above : We recently unlocked the child safety locks on our kitchen cabinets (except the one u

Almond Butter Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

Almost every packaged holiday cookie out there is made with bleached and heavily processed flour, artificial colors derived from petroleum, GMO refined white sugars and GMO oils, and conflict palm oil. Just because it’s the holidays, you don’t need to subject … Continued The post Almond Butter Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies appeared first on Food Babe . from Food Babe http://ift.tt/2hp7EV9

Save Room for Dessert with These Slimmed-Down Holiday Sides

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A holiday meal is a true marathon, with one mouthwatering dish after the next — and you won’t want to miss a single one. This year, avoid the mistake of overexerting yourself in the earlier rounds so that you’re out of the running by the time that luscious fruit pie or chocolate cake hits the table. Pacing yourself and watching your portions are solid tactics for avoiding the notorious “food baby.” Another foolproof way to avoid going overboard at dinner is to rein in the sides. Classic dishes like full-fat creamed spinach and potatoes gratin are nice for the first few forkfuls, but they will leave you feeling too full — or worse, too ill — to enjoy the final round. Here are some lighter options that won’t spoil your appetite for dessert, but are by no means lacking in flavor. Ham and Vegetable Gratin (pictured above) Skip oily, monochromatic potato gratin this year and surprise your guests with Food Network Kitchen’s hearty alternative, loaded with carrots, peas, potatoes and juic

14 Weird Plant Bits and Where to Find Them: Foraging Ethnic Markets

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Five years ago, I wrote about all the odd animal bits one can find at ethnic markets. I procured and photographed the blood, the guts, the tendon, the tripe, the tails and heads and feet and all the other weird things you can and should eat—meaty bits you won’t find in the local Whole Foods. Today, I’m going to talk about the weird plant bits available in ethnic markets—spices, greens, roots, noodles, and fermented things. But first, a few reasons why everyone should probably hightail it to the nearest Asian, Middle Eastern, African, or Mexican market. Asian supermarkets exist outside of the normal supply chain typical markets use. They get different produce, in many cases fresher produce, and lower prices. A recent article in Saveur explains why: “ Chinatown’s 80-plus produce markets are cheap because they are connected to a web of small farms and wholesalers that operate independently of the network supplying most mainstream supermarkets.” I don’t know that this applies to Asi

A Biomechanical Analysis of the Squat: How Bar Position Affects the Movement

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Written by: Kevin Cann The terms “hip dominant” and “knee dominant” squats get thrown around quite a bit. I use these terms frequently myself. Often times people will alter the bar position on the body to attempt to get a different training effect. For example, we may high bar squat, or front squat instead of using a low bar position to get more quad work in our squat. The idea is that if we move the bar 2-3 inches higher on our back to the top of our traps that we will have a more positive shin angle (knees tracking further over the toes) and we will get more quad work out of the exercise. A front squat places the bar in front of the body and would lead to a greater shin angle than a high bar squat. Low Bar Position and Squat High Bar Position/Squat Front Rack Position/Squat The problem with this is it is not the case. All squat variations have very similar muscle activity ( 1 ). No matter what the shin angle or bar position is in the squat, the muscle activity for the qu

Merry & Bright

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Top of the morning to ya! I have been loving grapefruit now that summer berries are gone for the year. I used to take the time to slice, sweeten and eat with a grapefruit spoon, but most of the time I just eat them like an orange! So much faster. I have been taking this guy for some walks and runs, and he is loving it. Clearly! I think it has given me more excuses to go for walks and runs outside too, so I can see how pets are good motivators for people to get moving! Lunch was sardines over a salad with Red, Hot, Blues and aged cheddar. Gotta get in those sardines!! Mazen had his theater class performance last week, and he was a shepherd in the Christmas story. This day is always my favorite preschool day of the year! The show was so cute. But M wanted nothing to do with taking a photo with me this year. Guess he’s too cool now that he’s a “senior.” That face! That hair! (I tried REALLY hard to wet-comb it in the morning.) This flavor. How can the raspberry be SO GOOD and t